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Census Reform: Questionnaire Test Shows Simplification Holds Promise

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 1, 1992
Report No. T-GGD-92-59
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Summary:

Improving public cooperation is crucial to controlling census costs and ensuring high-quality data. The Census Bureau's test of simplified census questionnaires this year shows that making them more user friendly, adopting a strategy of multiple mail contracts, and reducing the number of questions improves public cooperation. These test results have important implications for a range of census operational issues. The results also raise difficult policy questions on the trade-offs that must be made between the cost of the census and the content and geographic detail of the data collected.

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