Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place
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Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place

Residence Rules in the Decennial Census

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  1. 377 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place

Residence Rules in the Decennial Census

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About this book

The usefulness of the U.S. decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. The 2000 and other recent censuses have relied on a set of residence rules to craft instructions on the census questionnaire in order to guide respondents to identify their correct "e;usual residence."e; Determining the proper place to count such groups as college students, prisoners, and military personnel has always been complicated and controversial; major societal trends such as placement of children in shared custody arrangements and the prevalence of "e;snowbird"e; and "e;sunbird"e; populations who regularly move to favorable climates further make it difficult to specify ties to one household and one place. Once, Only Once, and in the Right Place reviews the evolution of current residence rules and the way residence concepts are presented to respondents. It proposes major changes to the basic approach of collecting residence information and suggests a program of research to improve the 2010 and future censuses.

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Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Boxes
  7. Executive Summary
  8. Part I Residence and the Census
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Residence Rules: Development and Interpretation
  11. Part II Residence Rules Meet Real Life: Challenges in Defining Residence
  12. 3 The Nonhousehold Population
  13. 4 Complex and Ambiguous Living Situations
  14. 5 Mirroring America: Living Situations and the Census
  15. Part III Improvements for the Future
  16. 6 Residence Principles for the Decennial Census
  17. 7 Nonhousehold Enumeration
  18. 8 Operations, Research, and Testing
  19. References
  20. Appendixes
  21. A--Residence Rules of the 2000 Census
  22. B--Residence Concepts and Questionsin Selected Foreign Censuses
  23. C--Americans Residing Overseas
  24. D--Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
  25. Index