And the bureau works with the Department of Defense and the U.S. Coast Guard to identify living quarters on military installations and ships. All oceangoing, coastal and Great Lake ships take part in what is known as the Census Maritime Enumeration. In addition, the Census Bureau's plan acco...
The US Constitution bases representation in Congress on an "actual enumeration" carried out at least once every ten years. Last year, there was a large fight over this obscure clause, ending in a supreme court decision re-affirming that all permanent residents should be counted, including non-...
Like each population census conducted,the post-enumeration quality survey will be imple- mented after the population census 2010 in our country.Estimation of sample size must be completed before the sample of post-enumeration quality survey is drawn.I put forward that the deft of the post- enume...
Canada began to conduct sample surveys along with the full census in 1941, introduced a quinquennial census (a census on the sixth year of the decade) in 1956, and self-enumeration in 1971. In the 1990s, the Canadian census introduced adjustment of census results to correct for errors on ...
Nevertheless, the Bureau will likely have to plan an evaluation program to determine if the omissions and erroneous enumerations that have plagued recent decennial censuses will affect the 2010 census. The Bureau will again need careful evaluation tools and postcensal surveys to assess the accuracy ...
In this paper, we tackle the problem of unreliable and outdated census population counts through a bottom-up population mapping approach that couples semi-automated high-resolution settlement mapping with microcensus surveys, which are enumerations for sample zones within the settlement area, to estimat...