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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency -- Part II: Commentary -- References -- Appendix A: Organization of the Federal Statistical System -- Appendix B: Legislation and Regulations That Govern Federal Statistics -- Appendix C: Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics of the Statistical Commission of the United Nations -- Appendix D: Selected Federal Statistical Websites, January 2009 -- Appendix E: Prefaces to the First, Second, and Third Editions -- Committee on National Statistics.

FRONT MATTER -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Census Goals and Uses -- 3 The Road to 2000 -- 4 Assessment of 2000 Census Operations -- 5 Coverage Evaluation: Methods and Background -- 6 The 2000 Coverage Evaluation Program -- 7 Assessment of Basic and Long-Form-Sample Data -- 8 Race and Ethnicity Measurement -- 9 Management and Research -- 10 Detailed Findings and Recommendations -- APPENDIXES -- A Panel Activities and Prior Reports -- B Questionnaire Items on the 2000 and 1990 Censuses and -- C Census Operations -- D Completeness of Census Returns -- E A.C.E. Operations -- F Methods for Treating Missing Data -- G 2000 Census Basic (Complete-Count) Data Processing -- H 2000 Census Long-Form-Sample Data Processing -- I Census 2000 Evaluations and Experiments -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- Index to Chapters 1-10.

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 County Estimates -- 3 School District Estimates -- 4 Recommendations for Title I Allocations for the 1999-2000 School Year -- 5 Future Research and Development -- Appendix Use of School Lunch Data in New York State for the Estimation of School-Age Children in Poverty: An Analysis -- References and Bibliography -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Boxes -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: Using the American Community Survey -- 2 Essentials for Users -- 3 Working with the ACS: Guidance for Users -- PART II: Technical Issues -- 4 Sample Design and Survey Operations -- 5 The Weighting of ACS 1-Year Period Estimates -- 6 Weighting and Interpreting ACS Multiyear Estimates -- PART III: Education, Outreach, and Future Development -- 7 Important Next Steps -- References -- Appendixes -- A: Acronyms and Abbreviations -- B: Controlling the American Community Survey to Postcensal Population Estimates -- C: Alternatives to the Multiyear Period Estimation Strategy for the American Community Survey -- D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- Index to Executive Summary and Chapters 1-7 -- Committee on National Statistics.

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History and Assessment of BTS -- 3 Focusing on Data Quality -- 4 Ensuring Relevance -- 5 Building an Agency -- Acronyms Used in the Report -- References -- APPENDIX A The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991: References to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics -- APPENDIX B Selected Statistical Agencies and Programs -- APPENDIX C Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: How BTS Compares -- APPENDIX D Improving National Transportation Statistics: Airline Safety as a Case Study -- APPENDIX E Descriptions of CD-ROM Products on the BTS Web Site -- APPENDIX F Integrating Data and Filling Gaps: The Case of Household Travel -- APPENDIX G Biographical Sketches.

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Designing Surveys Acknowledging Nonresponse -- 2 Methods for Obtaining High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys -- 3 High Response Rates for Low-Income Population In-Person Surveys -- 4 Paying Respondents for Survey Participation -- 5 Adjusting for Missing Data in Low-Income Surveys -- 6 Measurement Error in Surveys of the Low-Income Population -- 7 Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data -- 8 Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data -- 9 Measuring Employment and Income for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data -- 10 Administrative Data on the Well-Being of Children On and Off Welfare -- 11 The Right (Soft) Stuff: Qualitative Methods and the Study of Welfare Reform -- 12 Studies of Welfare Leavers: Data, Methods, and Contributions to the Policy Process -- 13 Preexit Benefit Receipt and Employment Histories and Postexit Outcomes of Welfare Leavers -- 14 Experienced-Based Measures of Heterogeneity in the Welfare Caseload -- Appendix -- Index.

Cover -- Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Title I Allocation Procedures -- 3 Data Sources for County Estimates -- 4 Estimation Procedure for Counties -- 5 Alternative County Models -- 6 Evaluations of County Estimates -- 7 School District Estimates -- 8 Population Estimates -- 9 Research and Development Priorities -- Appendices -- APPENDIX A Models for County and State Poverty Estimates -- APPENDIX B Regression Diagnostics on Alternative County Regression Models -- APPENDIX C County Model Comparisons with 1990 Census Estimates -- APPENDIX D Use of School Lunch Data in New York State for the Estimation of School-Age Children in Poverty: An Analysis -- APPENDIX E Special Case: Estimates for Puerto Rico -- References and Bibliography -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Concepts -- 2 Defining Race -- 3 Defining Discrimination -- 4 Theories of Discrimination -- Part II Methods -- 5 Causal Inference and the Assessment of Racial Discrimination -- 6 Experimental Methods for Assessing Discrimination -- 7 Statistical Analysis of Observational Data -- 8 Attitudinal and Behavioral Indicators of Discrimination -- 9 An Illustration of Methodological Complexity: Racial Profiling -- Part III Data Collection and Research -- 10 Measurement of Race by the U.S. Government -- 11 Cumulative Disadvantage and Racial Discrimination -- 12 Research: Next Steps -- References -- Selected Bibliography -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B Biographical Sketches -- Index.

This edition updates and expands a critically-acclaimed resource to the history, politics, content, procedures, and uses of the decennial census of the American population. The book highlights changes in the Census Bureau's data collection and dissemination practices for the 2010 enumeration

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Basic Concepts -- 3 Regulatory History -- 4 Enhancing Informed Consent -- 5 Enhancing Confidentiality Protection -- 6 Enhancing the Effectiveness of Review: Minimal-Risk Research -- 7 System Issues -- References -- Appendices -- A Tracing Changes in Regulatory Language -- B Selected Organizations and Resources for Human Research Participant Protection -- C Agenda for Panel's First Meeting -- D Selected Studies of IRB Operations: Summary Descriptions -- E Confidentiality and Data Access Issues for Institutional Review Boards George T. Duncan -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.