The 2013 Census Test: Piloting Methods to Reduce 2020 Census Costs

Methods used for Small Domain Estimation of Census Net Undercoverage in the 2001 Canadian Census

Since the 1991 the population estimates have used the Census counts adjusted for the net Census undercoverage. The population estimates require the net missed persons by single year of age for each sex for all provinces and territories are required. While the coverage studies can provide reliable estimates of missed persons for each province and territory, the sample size is not large enough to...

GAO-17-584T, Accessible Version, 2020 CENSUS: Sustained Attention to Innovations, IT Systems, and Costs Estimation is Needed

Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments

This article outlines procedures for taking the US census, making adjustments, and evaluating the results. The census turns out to be remarkably accurate. Statistical adjustment is unlikely to improve on the census, because adjustment can easily put in more error than it takes out. Indeed, error rates in the adjustment are comparable to if not larger than errors in the census. The data suggest ...

Conducting the economic census

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The Neutron Star Census

The paucity of old isolated accreting neutron stars in ROSAT observations is used to derive a lower limit on the mean velocity of neutron stars at birth. The secular evolution of the population is simulated following the paths of a statistical sample of stars for different values of the initial kick velocity, drawn from an isotropic Gaussian distribution with mean velocity 0 ≤ V ≤ 550 km s −1. ...