Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation : Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation : Data and Analysis to Inform the Escap Report

By Hogan, Howard

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Title:	Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation : Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation : Data and Analysis to Inform the Escap Report
Author:	Hogan, Howard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Census., Census report
Collections:	U.S. Census Bureau Collection
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Publisher:	U.S. Census Bureau Department


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Description
Statistical Reference Document

Excerpt
Excerpt: The Census Bureau designed the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.) to permit correction of the initial census results to account for systematic patterns of net undercount. The Census Bureau preliminarily determined that the AC.E, if properly conducted, should produce more accurate census data by improving coverage and reducing differential undercounts; the purpose of this document is to evaluate whether the data produced in Census 2000 support this initial determination. This document summarizes and synthesizes the more detailed analysis reports that were written to inform the adjustment decision. No one analysis report is determinative; rather the information in the analysis reports, taken together, permits evaluation of the quality of both the census and the A.C.E. The topics of the analysis reports were selected because the Census Bureau believed that the information in those reports would provide the basis for informing the Census Bureau?s adjustment decision. In the course of evaluating the conduct of both the census and the AC.E, it became evident that other analyses should be completed; thus, two additional reports have been added to the 16 formal reports originally specified. The information in the analysis reports, and the reports themselves in draft form, have been shared with the Executive Steering Committee on A.C.E. Policy (ESCAP) on a flow basis so that the Committee could evaluate the data as they became available. The Committee has sometimes asked for additional information, either from the authors of the analysis reports or from other Census Bureau staff. Much of the analysis in the attached reports is applicable for all possible uses of adjusted data, but in some instances the reports focus on the ESCAP Committee?s initial regulatory charge: to make a recommendation on the suitability of using the A.C.E. data for redistricting.

Table of Contents
Tables Table 1. Summary Table: Data and Analysis to Inform the ESCAP Report 6 Table 2. Percent Net Undercount for Major Groups: 2000 A.C.E. and 1990 PES ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 13 Table 3. Distribution Interviews by Week - Unweighted 26 Table 4a. Census 2000 A.C.E. 64 Post-Stratum Group-Percent Net Undercount 31 Table 4b. Census 2000 A.C.E. 64 Post-Stratum Group-Standard Error of the Net Undercount 32 Table 5. A Comparison of the 1990 PES Total Population with the A.C.E. Accounting for Population Change . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 57 Table 6. Relative Loss by Degree of Processing Error and Correlation Bias 62 Table A-1.Census 2000 A.C.E. 64 Post-Stratum Groups by Region Percent Late Adds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 67 Table A-2.Census 2000 A.C.E. 64 Post-Stratum Group by Region - Percent lis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 68 Table A-3.Census 2000 Evaluations Program Category Report Schedule 69