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GAO-02-956R 1 (2002-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamcd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: £ Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 September 30, 2002 The Honorable Dave Weldon, M.D. Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil Service, Census, and Agency Organization Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives The Honorable Dan Miller Vice-Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil Service, Census, and Agency Organization Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives Subject: The American Community Survey: Accuracy and Timeliness Issues In response to your March 11, 2002, request, we have reviewed several major issues associated with the proposed full implementation of the American Community Survey (ACS) by the Bureau of the Census for 2003. If the ACS is approved, this mandatory mail survey would cost from $120 to $150 million a year, and would require responses from a sample of about 3 million households (250,000 each month) to some 60 to 70 questions. The ACS would provide annual data for areas with a population of 65,000 or more and multiyear averages for smaller geographic areas. In addition, the ACS would replace the decennial census long form for 2010 and subsequent decennial censuses. Based on your request and subsequent discussions with your staffs, we agreed to report on the following questions: How would the quality of the annual ACS data and multiyear averages, which would be available beginning with annual data for 2003, compare with that of the 2010 Decennial Census long-form data, and would these ACS data adequately replace long-form data in meeting the needs of federal agencies? Are the questions to be asked in the ACS beginning with 2003 justified by statutory requirements of federal agencies, and is the planned use of ACS data to select samples for additional surveys consistent with the confidentiality provisions of Title 13 of the United States Code? Are ACS questions duplicative of or similar to those in other federal surveys, and can the burden on the respondents be reduced? If the ACS was conducted as a voluntary survey, how would the costs be affected? How did the Bureau encourage participation in the ACS test program through (1) training for follow-up interviewers of nonrespondents and (2) outreach and promotion efforts? GAO-02-956R The American Community Survey

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