We compared all-cause mortality rates stratified by individual-level education and by census tract area-based socioeconomic measures for Massachusetts (1999-2001). Among persons aged 25 and older, the age-adjusted relative index of inequality was slightly higher for the census tract than for the individual education measures (1.5 vs 1.2, respectively). Only the census tract socioeconomic measur...

census decreases with time, while annual midyear population estimates do not provide age breakdowns below the scale of local and health authority districts. Patient registers currently maintained by family health service authorities (FHSAs) are an alternative source of population estimates but their accuracy has been questioned because of the problems of delay in removing outdated records and n...

This paper develops a theoretical approach for understanding how the census has not only played a role in constructing population (census making) but also has simultaneously created subjects with the capacity to recognise themselves as members of a population (census taking). The ‘population’ is now generally considered something that is not discovered but constructed. But what is neglected is ...

Administrative records (AR) databases offer the prospect of reduced respondent burden and substantial cost savings in census taking and are promising for identifying people missed in the census. However, available AR databases have not yet been shown to be sufficient for strict enumeration purposes, mainly because of the lack of synchronicity between census day and the dates that data enter int...

From its creation in 1989 through subsequent extensions, the widely-used “SnapPea census” now aims to represent all cusped finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds that can be obtained from ≤ 8 ideal tetrahedra. Its construction, however, has relied on inexact computations and some unproven (though reasonable) assumptions, and so its completeness was never guaranteed. For the first time, we prove h...

The instability of ethnicity measured in the national census is found to have doubled from the period 1991-2001 to the period 2001-2011, using the Longitudinal Study that links a sample of individuals' census records across time. From internal evidence and comparison with results from the Census Quality Survey and the Labour Force Survey, estimates are made of instability due to changing questi...

Every effort is made to ensure everyone is counted in a census. However, no census is perfect and some people are missed. This undercount does not usually occur uniformly across all geographical areas or across sub-groups of the population such as age and gender. Further, the measurement of small populations, one of the key reasons for carrying out a census, is becoming increasingly difficult. ...

)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) The 2002 Census of Agriculture adjusted for whole-farm nonresponse by dividing the potential farms on its list into size classes and then weighting the respondents within each class to account for the nonrespondents. Unfortunately, to assign the size-class memberships, a consistent measure of size was needed for all potential farms not ...

This paper presents selected results from the Administrative Records Experiment in 2000 (AREX 2000). AREX 2000 used administrative records to enumerate the population in two test sites and compared the results to Census 2000. The test sites included two Maryland and three Colorado counties that offered distinct challenges to the enumeration process. The Outcomes Evaluation assessed two enumerat...