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Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Document: Design and Methodology: American Community Survey
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Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; Design and Methodology, American Community Survey. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.
Documentation
ACS 2008 (1-Year Estimates)
Design and Methodology: American Community Survey
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Program History
Chapter 3. Frame Development
Chapter 4. Sample Design and Selection
Chapter 5. Content Development Process
Chapter 6. Survey Rules, Concepts, and Definitions
Chapter 7. Data Collection and Capture for Housing Units
Chapter 8. Data Collection and Capture for Group Quarters
Chapter 9. Language Assistance Program
Chapter 10. Data Preparation and Processing for Housing Units and Group Quarters
Chapter 11. Weighting and Estimation
Chapter 12. Variance Estimation
Chapter 13. Preparation and Review of Data Products
Chapter 14. Data Dissemination
Chapter 15. Improving Data Quality by Reducing Nonsampling Error
Acronyms
Glossary of Terms
100 Percent Data
Accessibility
Acceptability Index
Accuracy
Address Control File
Address Corrections from Rural Directories
Address Listing
Administrative Entities
Allocation
American Community Survey (ACS) Alert
American Community Survey Demonstration Program
American Community Survey Full Implementation
American Community Survey Test Sites
American FactFinder (AFF)
American Indian Area, Alaska Native Area, Hawaiian Homeland (AIANAHH)
Assignment
Automated Address Unduplication
Automated Clerical Review
Automated Editing
Automated Listing and Mapping Instrument (ALMI)
Automated Review Tool (ART)
Automated Review Tool II (ART II)
Base Tables
Base Weight
Be Counted Enumeration and Be Counted Questionnaire
Blaise
Block
Block Canvassing
Block Group
Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS)
Case Management
Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS)
Census County Division (CCD)
Census Designated Place (CDP)
Census Geography
Census Information Center (CIC)
Census Sample Data
Census Tract
City-Style Address
Coding
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Cold Deck Values
Collapsing
Community Address Updating System (CAUS)
Comparison Profile
Complete Interview
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI)
Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
Confidence Interval
Confidentiality
Congressional Tool Kit
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Control File
Controlled
Count Question Resolution (CQR)
Cross Tabulation
Current Population Survey (CPS)
Current Residence
Custom Tabulations
Data Capture File
Data Collection Mode
Data Profiles
De Facto Residence Rules
Delivery Sequence File (DSF)
Demographic Area Address Listing (DAAL)
Derived Products
Detailed Tables
Disclosure Avoidance (DA)
Disclosure Review Board (DRB)
Edit
Edit Management and Messaging Application (EMMA)
Estimates
Evaluation Studies
Failed Edit Follow-Up (FEFU)
Federal Agency Information Program (FAIP)
Federal Government Unit (FGU)
Federal Register Notice
Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates (FSCPE)
Field Representative (FR)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Final Outcome Code
First Stage Sample
Five-Year Estimates
Functioning Governmental Unit (FGU)
General Coding
Geocoding
Geographic Summary Level
Government Printing Office (GPO)
Governmental Unit Measure of Size (GUMOS)
Group Quarters (GQ) Facilities
Group Quarters Facilities Questionnaire (GQFQ)
Group Quarters Geocoding Correction Operation
Group Quarters Listing Sheet
Group Quarters Measure of Size (GQMOS)
Hot Deck Imputation
Household
Housing Unit (HU)
Imputation
Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR)
Intercensal Estimates
Interim Codes
Interpolation
Interview Monitoring
Item Nonresponse
Iterations
Joint Economic Edit
Key-From-Image (KFI)
Key-From-Paper (KFP)
Legal Entity
List/Enumerate
Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)
Long Form
Lower Bound
Mailing Address
Mailout-Mailback
Main Phase Sample
Master Address File (MAF)
Master Address File Geocoding Office Resolution (MAFGOR)
Master Address File/TIGER® Reconciliation
Margin of Error (MOE)
Measure of Size (MOS)
Measurement Error
Median
Metadata
Minor Civil Division (MCD)
Multiyear Estimates
Municipio
Narrative Profile
National Processing Center (NPC)
Non-City-Style Address
Noninterview/Nonresponse
Nonresponse Error
Nonresponse Follow-Up
Nonsampling Error
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Operational Response Rates
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
Overcoverage
Period Estimates
Point-in-Time Estimates
Population Controls
Primary Sampling Unit (PSU)
Processing Error
Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA)
Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Files
Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) Management and Messaging Application (PMMA)
Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS)
Quality Assurance (QA)
Quality Control (QC)
Quality Index
Quality Measures
Raking
Ranking Table
Recodes
Reference Period
Regional Office (RO)
Relevance
Remote Alaska
Residence Rules
Respondent
Respondent Errors
Response Categories
Response Errors
Rolling Sample
Sample Month
Sampling Entity
Sampling Error
Sampling Frame
Sampling Rate
Sampling Variability
Second Stage Sample
Selected Population Profiles (SPPs)
Short Form
Single-Year Estimates
Size Thresholds
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
Special Census
Special Place (SP)
Special Sworn Status (SSS) or Special Sworn Status (SSS) Individual
Standard Error
State Data Center (SDC)
Statistical Areas
Statistical Significance
Strata
Stratum
Subsampling
Subject Tables
Successive Differences Replication (SDR)
Sufficient Partial Interview
Summary File 3 (SF 3)
Summary File 4 (SF 4)
Supplemental Sample
Survey
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
Survey Quality
Survey Response Rates
Swapping
Systematic Errors
Tabulation Month
Tabulation Universe
Targeting
Telephone Questionnaire Assistance (TQA)
Thematic Maps
Three-Year Estimates
Timeliness
Title 13 (U.S. Code)
Topcoding
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER®) System or Database
Tract
Undeliverable-As-Addressed (UAA)
Undercoverage
Unit Nonresponse
Unmailable
Update/Leave (U/L)
Upper Bound
Urbanizacion
Urbanized Area (UA)
Usual Residence
Voluntary Methods Test
WebCATI
Web Data Server (WDS)
Weighting
Glossary of Basic Geographic and Related Terms - Census 2000
Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC)
Alaska Native village (ANV)
Alaska Native village statistical area (ANVSA)
American Indian off-reservation trust land
American Indian reservation
American Indian tribal subdivision
American Indian trust land
Barrio, barrio-pueblo
Block
Block boundary
Block group (BG)
Block number
Block numbering area (BNA)
Borough
Census area
Census block
Census Bureau map
Census county division (CCD)
Census designated place (CDP)
Census division
Census geography
Census map
Census region
Census subarea
Census tract
Census tract number
Central city
Central place
City
City and borough
Code
Collection block
Comunidad
Congressional district (CD)
Consolidated city
Consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA)
County
County subdivision
Division (census geographic)
Extended city
Extended place
Geographic code
Geographic entity
Geographic hierarchy
Governmental unit (GU)
Hawaiian home land (HHL)
Incorporated place
Independent city
Independent place
Indian reservation
Island Areas
Joint use area
Legal entity
Metropolitan area (MA)
Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
Minor civil division (MCD)
Municipality
Municipio
New England County Metropolitan Area (NECMA)
Off-reservation trust land
Oklahoma tribal statistical area (OTSA)
Outlying Areas
Parish
Place
Primary metropolitan statistical area (PMSA)
Pseudo-voting district (pseudo-VTD)
Public use microdata area (PUMA)
Region (census geographic)
Rural
School district
State
State designated American Indian statistical area (SDAISA)
State legislative district (SLD)
Statistical entity
Subbarrio
Sub-MCD
Super-PUMA
Tabulation block
Tabulation geography
Tract
Traffic analysis zone (TAZ)
Tribal block group
Tribal census tract
Tribal designated statistical area (TDSA)
Tribal jurisdiction statistical area (TJSA)
Tribal subdivision
Trust land
United States
Unorganized territory (UT)
Urban
Urban area
Urban cluster (UC)
Urban growth area (UGA)
Urbanized area (UA)
Voting district (VTD)
ZIP Code area
ZIP Code tabulation area (ZCTAa)
Zona urbana
Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; Design and Methodology, American Community Survey. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.