Integrating the American Community Survey and the Intercensal Demographic Estimates Program
Integrating the American Community Survey and the Intercensal Demographic Estimates Program
This paper is a review of issues and possible methods for using information from the American Community Survey (ACS) to improve the Census Bureau’s intercensal population estimates program, and for using the estimates from that program as weighting controls for the ACS. We have previously referred to this integration of survey data with model based estimates as part of the “Program of Integrated Estimates”.
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The ACS: The Census Bureau's Plan to Provide Timely 21st Century Data
Description of American Community Survey design and objectives.
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A Rolling Sample Survey for Yearly and Decennial Uses
Overview of ACS and its rolling sample design.
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Still Rolling: Leslie Kish's "Rolling Samples" and the ACS
Leslie Kish's influence on the development of the ACS and practical methodological issues addressed in implementing the design.
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