Census Bureau EstimatesA State Perspective

APDU Annual Conference

Washington, DC

20 September 2010

Busy Time for the Estimates Branch

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Estimates to serve

• Federal Law

• Census Bureau Sample Surveys

• Census Coverage Evaluation

• Needs of State and Local Governments

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Quality of the Estimates

• Wrong on 61 of 39,000 in ‘06, ‘07– 99.4% correct!

• Improvements sought for – College and Military Counties

• IRS data for person based rather than return based

– Immigration from Abroad– Vital Statistics– Housing Unit Method

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State Demographers Need

• Coverage by age-sex-race for counties - affect estimates of net migration

• Detailed fertility, mortality, and gross migration numbers and rates for counties

• Consistent estimates of population size for small areas (Estimates vs ACS)

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Challenges are shared

• Consistency of race/ethnic data across sources and time

• Movement of military population and dependents

• Immigration and the foreign born

• Timely and consistent data for all units of local government

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Warren A. BrownGeorgia State Data Center

brown@cviog.uga.edu

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