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The overall goal of the 2010 Census Count Review Program was to enhance the accuracy of results from the census. The first event of the program was a review of the 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal counts. The 2008 review was based on the model used in the Census 2000 Full Count Review. This traditional model compared counts of population and housing units to counts from the last census and to recent estimates. The 2008 experience demonstrated the inability of the traditional approach to provide the geographic precision necessary to affect corrections to the counts.
A new GIS - based approach also was tried for 2008 and proved very effective in identifying exact addresses of missing living quarters. This new approach was adopted for the 2010 Census, with separate review events for housing unit addresses and for group quarters. This assessment report asks and answers three overall questions:
The 2010 Census Count Review Program developed and deployed a new review approach. The program met its goals and was well received by major stakeholders, including the members of the Federal - State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates.
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