Category Archives: Quality Assurance

Written by: Director Robert Groves The series of posts on quality of a census all made the point that there are various ways to measure how good a census is – all of them imperfect. I think it important to … Continue reading →

Written by: Director Robert Groves During the past few months, we’ve been conducting major field quality assurance operations. The last two I’ve blogged about in the past – the vacant/delete check and the field verification check. Both of these are … Continue reading →

Written by: Director Robert Groves Comparing the census counts to alternatives is one way to get a sense of how good the census is; if all alternative ways of estimating the size of the population yield about the same conclusions, … Continue reading →

Written by: Director Robert Groves The point of the first three posts on census quality was to note that there is no known “truth” with regard to the population of the United States. We have different tools, each of which … Continue reading →