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The American Community Survey : summary of a workshop / Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population forecasting--United States.
- Population forecasting.
- Social surveys--United States.
- Social surveys.
- United States--Statistical services.
- United States.
- American community survey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 55 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The American Community Survey (ACS), to be run by the Census Bureau, will be a large (250,000 housing units a month), predominantly mailout/mailback survey that will collect information similar to that on the decennial census long form. This title summarizes that workshop.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Combination of Information Across Areas""; ""3 Combination of Information Across Time""; ""4 Funding Formulas""; ""5 Weighting and Imputation""; ""6 Sample and Questionnaire Design""; ""7 Calibration of the Long Form to ACS Output""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""Appendix An Example of Combining Information""; ""References""
- Notes:
- "To assist the Census Bureau in developing a research agenda to address ... methodological issues, the Committee on National Statistics held a workshop on September 13, 1998."--P. 1.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).
- ISBN:
- 0-309-17121-0
- 0-309-51375-8
- OCLC:
- 923256581
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