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Letter Report addressed to Dr. Martha Farnsworth Riche, Director, U.S. Bureau of the Census (1997) / Chapter Skim
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... The National Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering · to serve government and other organizations
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... With this change, all households will receive four pieces of mail: a Renotification letter; the first census form; a reminder postcard, to thank those who had already completed the form and to urge completion by those who had not; and a replacement census form to all households, regardless of whether or when they have returned the original census questionnaire. The expected benefit of increased mall response appears likely to outweigh the cost of printing sufficient replacement forms and mailing one to each household.
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... The pane} supports the Bureau's intention to work with its advertising and communications experts to develop strategies to offset or prevent public misperception of the blanket replacement mailing strategy and other census procedures. In developing those strategies, convening focus groups prior to the dress rehearsal could help the Bureau anticipate public perception issues in regard to blanket replacement plans.
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... to assess the sensitivity of savings estimates to changes In response rates or unduplication workloads. The pane' recommends that the Census Bureau immediately focus on developing and implementing dress rehearsal evaluation procedures for issues surrounding the mailout and unduplication plans.
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... Bradburn, eds., Pane! to Evaluate Alternative Census Methodologies, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council.
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... BRUCE PETRIE, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario NATHANIEL SCHENKER, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles STANLEY K SMITH, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville LYNNE STOKES, Department of Management Science and Information Systems University of Texas, Austin NAMES TRUSSELL, Office of Population Research, Princeton University ALAN M
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  • data quality
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  • reminder postcard
  • response rates
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  • convening focus
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  • predecessor panels
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