How Does the Special Census Program This Decade Differ From Previous Decades?
The operation of the Special Census Program this decade has been totally redesigned. A different enumeration methodology is used, the update/enumerate methodology. The update/enumerate methodology improves the quality of the data utilizing the Census Bureau’s Master Address File, which is kept current through periodic updates from the United States Postal Services’ Delivery Sequence File. This element is particularly important, because it ensures the quality and timeliness of the address list. Changes found in the geography, as a result of a Special Census are incorporated into the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) system, the Census Bureau’s digital database used for our mapping needs during the Decennial Census and for other programs. The database consists of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, political boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc. covering the entire United States. The TIGER files generated are not
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