Reducing response burden in the American Community Survey : proceedings of a workshop / Thomas J. Plewes, rapporteur ; Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Sociel Sciences and Education, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
Introduction: Understanding Response Burden -- Approaches to Reducing Response Burden -- Improving Response by Building Respondent Support -- Using Administrative Records to Reduce Response Burden -- Using Improved Sampling and Other Methods to Reduce Response Burden -- Tailoring Collection of Information from Group Quarters -- Future Directions -- Appendix A. Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B. Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Presenters
Summary
In recent years, the American Community Survey (ACS) - a mandatory household survey that replaced the supplementary "long form" of the census - has seen an increase in nonresponse and criticism for invasion of privacy and excessive burden. As part of the U.S. Census Bureau's continual efforts to improve the Survey, this workshop was called to investigate response burden, focusing on four main topics: matrix sampling to reduce the number of individuals that various questions are posed to; direct substitution of information from administrative records, eliminating some questions; having a separate, reduced-size questionnaire that eliminates unreasonable questions for respondents living in group quarters; and a communication and education strategy to increase cooperation with the request to participate
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97)
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Title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed December 7, 2016)
