How We Complete the Census When Households or Group Quarters Don’t Respond
By Pat Cantwell, Chief of the Decennial Statistical Studies Division
As we continue to process 2020 Census responses, people have asked what happens when we don’t get a response from an address. In this blog, I’ll describe the statistical techniques we turn to when we do not get a response.
To get a complete and accurate census, we need to know certain information about every household address in the census:
- Whether it is a real and livable residence.
- If so, whether it is vacant or occupied.
- If it's occupied, how many people live there.
- Demographic characteristics about the people who live there, such as age, sex and race.
At the end of data collection, we had the information required to address the first three bullets on almost every address in the country. For the remaining small fraction of addresses, we apply a technique called count imputation to resolve whether they were occupied and how many people lived there. Continue Reading...
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