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Description & Citation--Study No. 3901

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3901
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03901
 
Title:Census Quality Survey Public Use Data File, 2001: [United States]
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS QUALITY SURVEY PUBLIC USE DATA FILE, 2001: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. ICPSR release. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03901
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study was designed with the primary objective of producing a data file that could be used to bridge between the "single" race distribution in the 1990 Census and other household surveys and the "one or more races" distribution in Census 2000. The Census Quality Survey (CQS) was a nationally representative sample of about 55,000 households. Responding to a mailback questionnaire, one-half of the sample household respondents were asked to "mark one race," and during a telephone recontact, these respondents were asked to "select one or more races." For the other half of the sample households, the reverse procedure was used. Data from these two contacts may be used to produce "bridging parameters" to compare race distributions collected under methodologies that request either one race or one or more races. In addition, Census 2000 records were matched to their respective CQS records (with a match success rate of 86 percent). The matched records may also be used to produce bridging estimates.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, census methods, ethnicity, race
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:2001
 
Date(s) of Collection:2001
 
Universe:All persons and housing units in the United States in 2000.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook accompanying Part 1 data and documentation distributed as Part 2 are provided by the principal investigator as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:A nationally representative sample of about 55,000 households was drawn.
 
Data Source:mailback questionnaires and telephone interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2004-01-22
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Census Quality Survey Data
  • DS2: Census Quality Survey to Evaluate Responses to the Census 2000 Question on Race: An Introduction to the Data
 

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