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Modernizing Disclosure Avoidance: A Multipass Solution to Postprocessing Error
In our last blog, we discussed the feedback we received from the data user community about demonstration data released last fall that were produced using the interim version of the 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS).
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Census Knowledge and Census Participation Among Hispanics
Does knowledge about the decennial census encourage participation among populations that are hard to count (e.g. people with language barriers and socio-economic disadvantages)?
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Reducing Respondent Burden in Counting Juveniles
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement every other year for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention .
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Update on the Current Population Survey Research
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey is one of the oldest and largest household surveys in the United States.
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Visit Us at the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago
On July 30, U.S. Census Bureau staff will join several thousand statisticians and experts in related professions to present testing and research results on many topics at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, Ill.
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Investigating Alternative Methods to Estimate Time Use Behaviors
Time diary surveys collect information about the different activities the survey respondents participate in throughout the pre-selected diary day, including a general description of the activity and the amount of time spent in each activity.
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Methodological Challenges and Opportunities in Web Survey Usability Evaluation
As a scientific investigation, evaluation of web survey usability requires sound methodology.
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Advancements in Cross-Cultural and Multilingual Questionnaire Design and Pretesting
Several U.S. Census Bureau employees with the Center for Survey Measurement’s Language and Cross-Cultural Research Group will be presenting in a special panel at the American Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Austin, Texas, this May.
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Communicating Data Use and Privacy: In-Person Versus Web-Based Methods for Message Testing
Communicating messages about privacy, data use and access, and confidentiality is critical to earning and keeping the trust of respondents and to ensuring their willingness to participate in surveys.
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Continuing to Explore the Relationship Between Economic and Political Conditions and Government Survey Refusal Rates: 1960 to 2015
Survey programs are operating in a difficult climate. Response rates for a number of major government surveys have declined. Among them is the Current Population Survey, where the response rate has fallen below 90 percent.
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Identifying Hard-to-Survey Populations Using Low Response Scores by Census Tract
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database is a publicly available data set derived from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2010 Census data.
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Digital Advertising: Encouraging Participation in the Decennial Census
The U.S. Census Bureau conducted a test of digital advertising and other communications techniques as part of the 2015 Census Test in the Savannah, Ga., test site.
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How Effective is a Prenotice Letter in Increasing Self-Response?
Research shows that using a prenotice letter is effective in increasing survey response.
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Reducing Respondent Contact Burden in the American Community Survey
Medicaid enrollment figures are among the key data inputs for the Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) of the number of uninsured for all U.S. counties and states.
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Survey Research Today and Tomorrow
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts many surveys that involve probability samples of households and businesses using frames such as the Master Address File and the Business Register.
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Join Us at the Annual American Association for Public Opinion Research
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts many surveys that involve probability samples of households and businesses using frames such as the Master Address File and the Business Register.
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STEM Training and Early Career Outcomes of Female and Male Graduate Students
The U.S. federal government contributed nearly $38 billion for university-based research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in 2014.
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Poverty by Age and Sex: An Examination of the Distribution in Poverty Between 1966 and 2014
Researchers, analysts and policymakers have long noted that women are more likely to fall below the poverty line than men. However, the poverty differential between men and women is not consistent throughout life.
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Census Bureau Researchers Present Findings at the 2016 PAA Conference
Researchers from the U.S. Census Bureau will join other demographers, sociologists, economists and professionals at the Population Association of American annual conference March 31 to April 2 in Washington, D.C.
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Is a Veteran With a Service-Connected Disability the Same as a Disabled Veteran?
The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) provides a variety of information critical to understanding the needs of America’s veterans.
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In What Ways are D.C.-Area Neighborhoods With Rail Transit Different From Other Neighborhoods?
A look around the Washington, D.C., metro area reveals a series of neighborhoods with varying demographic profiles.
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Improving Our Nation's Data on Race and Ethnicity
Since the 1970s, the Census Bureau has conducted decennial content tests to research and improve the design and function of different questions, including questions on race and ethnicity.
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Assessing the Validity of the ACS English-Ability Question
Using data from the American Community Survey, the Census Bureau estimated that 60.4 million, or 20.7 percent of the population, spoke a language other than English at home in 2013.
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Characteristics of Likely Transgender Individuals
Transgender issues and images are increasingly present in popular media, literature, journalism, and the United States legal system.
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Where Do We Go When We Retire? A Broader Look at Retirement Destinations
Where do you plan to live when you or a loved one reaches the golden years? Do you plan to stay where you are now? Do you plan to move to some place warm and sunny? Our new research from the 2014 population estimates looks at where people age 65 and over are choosing to move.
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Talkin' 'Bout Our Generations: Will Millennials Have a Similar Impact on America's Institutions as the Baby Boomers?
However, these comparisons often overlook one important difference between the generations — their memberships are not defined by the same metric.
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China Passes Mexico as Top Sending Country of Immigrants to the US
Based on my research , in 2013, China replaced Mexico as the top sending country for immigrants to the United States.
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