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Comparing Social Characteristics Between Census 2000 and the American Community Survey
Comparing Social Characteristics Between Census 2000 and the American Community Survey
Abstract
This paper compares the results from Census 2000 to the results from the American Community Survey (ACS) in 2000, which was called the Census 2000 Supplemental Survey (C2SS), for various long-form social characteristics such as nativity, place of birth, language spoken at home, and ancestry. The comparisons not only show which differences are statistically different, but also where the differences are meaningfully large enough to change conclusions made from the data. The paper identifies differences that are systematic because of methodological reasons.
The ACS is a new survey being tested by the Census Bureau. It is designed to be a replacement for the Decennial Census long form. The long form asks questions on education, employment, income, ancestry, housing value, rent, and many other topics. The C2SS was designed in part to test how feasible it was to collect long form data at the same time as a Census was being conducted.
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