Small Populations, Large Effects : Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

Small Populations, Large Effects : Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey / Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey, Paul R. Voss and Krisztina Marton, Editors, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample of the U.S. population as part of the decennial census. The American Community Survey (ACS) became a reality in 2...

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Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey
Other Authors: Voss, Paul R., Marton, Krisztina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
American community survey > Evaluation.
American community survey
Housing surveys > United States.
Demographic surveys > United States.
Social surveys > United States.
Government questionnaires > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Statistics.
Demographic surveys
Evaluation
Government questionnaires
Housing surveys
Population
Social surveys
United States > Population > Statistics.
United States > Census > Evaluation.
United States
Statistics
Statistics.
Statistiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The group quarters population and the American community survey
  • American community survey data products, data uses, and data needs
  • Sampling frame development and maintenance
  • Sample allocation and selection
  • Weighting and estimation.

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