Written by: Dr. John M. Abowd, chief scientist and associate director for Research and Methodology Dr. Victoria A. Velkoff, associate director for Demographic Programs
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Today, the Census Bureau is releasing demonstration data products designed to help our data user community better understand the disclosure avoidance system for the 2020 Census and its impact on data quality and protection.
Time diary surveys collect information about the different activities the survey respondents participate in throughout the pre-selected diary day, including a general description of the activity and the amount of time spent in each activity.
When interviewers administer a survey in a Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) mode, survey organizations like the U.S. Census Bureau incur great costs acquiring and maintaining devices such as laptops, tablets or cell phones for interviewers to use in the field.
Several U.S. Census Bureau employees with the Center for Survey Measurement’s Language and Cross-Cultural Research Group will be presenting in a special panel at the American Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Austin, Texas, this May.
Communicating messages about privacy, data use and access, and confidentiality is critical to earning and keeping the trust of respondents and to ensuring their willingness to participate in surveys.
Survey programs are operating in a difficult climate. Response rates for a number of major government surveys have declined. Among them is the Current Population Survey, where the response rate has fallen below 90 percent.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database is a publicly available data set derived from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey (ACS) and 2010 Census data.
The U.S. Census Bureau conducted a test of digital advertising and other communications techniques as part of the 2015 Census Test in the Savannah, Ga., test site.
Medicaid enrollment figures are among the key data inputs for the Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) of the number of uninsured for all U.S. counties and states.
Medicaid enrollment figures are among the key data inputs for the Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) of the number of uninsured for all U.S. counties and states.
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts many surveys that involve probability samples of households and businesses using frames such as the Master Address File and the Business Register.
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts many surveys that involve probability samples of households and businesses using frames such as the Master Address File and the Business Register.
The U.S. federal government contributed nearly $38 billion for university-based research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in 2014.