... This paper has two purposes. The first is to contribute to a common understand- ing of terminology and concepts on the subject of response variability. The sec- ond is to present some results obtained from the Response Variance Study of the 1960 Censuses of Population and Housing. We present in this paper...

..., and suggests a program for expanding the employment of sampling in censuses of the developing countries. Two ways can be developed to use sampling to speed up the processing of census results. The first way is to use small samples for a program of preliminary reports, to be followed up later by final reports...

... users exploit the potentialities of the latter material, the Bureau has instituted a "data access" informational program. AI'J in previous censuses, there will be s number of studies to evaluate the 1970 proeedures and results. In 1970-specifically, as of April I, the census should obtain more popula...

..., and with a flexible definition of census results, there is some chance of meeting unanticipated needs. Now, a flexible definition would be: “a collection of basic data, edited summaries of these data, and a set of techniques for using the collection and summaries.” This definition emphasizes software...

... of census results against which the estimates could be compared. Complete census data on population, households, and PPH are now available and can be used to test alternate estimation techniques. In this paper we replicate the tests reported in our earlier paper using 1980 census data for Florida’s 67...

... and persons per household by comparing esti- mates with the results of special censuses conducted in 47 cities with population greater than 50,000. Although this study was simply a test of several specific tech- niques, it has mistakenly come to be ac- cepted as a test of the method itself. A number...

... of exaggeration at the oldest ages (80+) is seen in the 1979 census age structure (Feeney 1990). Second, enumerations in the two censuses must be equally complete. Yet, the population at the time of the 1989 census was very mobile as a result of loosened con- trols under the economic reforms of the 1980s...

... statistics data used in this paper. No similar reassignments of the Hispanic-origin population were carried out in previous censuses, because the problem seems to have been of smaller magnitude. Furthermore, investigations by Shrestha (1993) show that results are not sensitive to this choice. For estimates...

..., that, in general, our 1960 methods have succeeded in pro- ducing a better census than the 1950 Cen- sus, at lower cost, and with earlier publi- cation of results. Also, more data on a small-area basis have become available [1]. n, RELATIVE COMPLETENESS OF COVERAGE OF 1960 AND 1950 CENSUSES This is a brief analysis...

... the likelihood of minority identification. Children who are eligible for bonus points have nearly 2.1 times the odds of being identified as a minority. Table 6 displays multivariate logistic regressions of ethnic identification based on the CFPS sample. As with the census results, the estimated...

...Robert M. Hauser; Michael P. Massagli Abstract Measures used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to assay misclassification and correct marginal distributions—the net difference rate and the index of inconsistency—may produce misleading results and do not fully use information about inconsistency...

.... This procedure should, therefore, produce rea- sonably good results. Table 4 shows the ratios of the enumer- ated populations to the projected popu- lations for the last three censuses by sex and race for the oldest age groups. In general, the enumerated populations at ages below 95 are reasonably close...

.... ( 1964 ). A Preliminary Evaluation of the 1960 Censuses of Population and Housing . Demography , I , 1 – 14 . 10.2307/2060028 10 Powell Barbara A. , & Pritzker Leon ( 1965 ). Effects of Variation in Field Personnel on Census Results . Demography , II , 8 – 32 . 10.2307...

... of age and sex, and frequently in terms of such social-economic variables as education, income, work status, and occupational class. A large part of the content of the monograph on social and economic factors in mortality will come out of available results of the 1960 census-death certificate matching...

..., sex, and census date shown in Table 4. Consistent with the 1980 -0.0159 0.0043 -0.0198 0.0044 estimated census effects shown in Figure 2, the results sug- 1990 -0.0319 0.0042 -0.0256 0.0043 gest a steady improvement in census coverage, faster for fe- males than for males, in censuses from 1940 to 1980...

... migration that occurred during this period. As a result of processing and analyzing an extensive array of data, we have shown that differences in income, derived indirectly from a variety of data, are closely related to internal migration in the USSR in the period prior to the 1926 census. There were...

... estimates that differ dramatically from those derived from a simple random sample of the same size. Researchers using historical U.S. census microdata, however, usually apply methods designed for simple random samples. The resulting p values and confidence intervals could be inaccurate and could lead...

... are the result of patterns of migra- tion, age-selective underenumeration, or perhaps even age-misreporting (Ew- bank, 1981, p. 47). In any event, it seems reasonable to think that poorer coverage of males than females was characteristic of both censuses. In order to take this into account, we allow in our...

...Ken G. Dean Abstract Recent net interregional migration into southern and western France is widely appreciated, but much less is known about the composition of these flows in terms of the occupational characteristics of economically active migrants. Using results from the 1982 census, this article...

... on the degree of cooperation rendered, ease of comprehension of the form, possible objectionable items on the census, whether or not contacts were made by enumerators, and respondent judgments of the adequacy of enumerators’ performance. The results indicate that Wisconsin respondents tended to comply...