A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research agency serving Congress, explores how the Census Bureau is using “administrative data to reduce respondent burden and data-collection costs, create new data products, and increase the research potential of census data.”
CRS posits that, “Members of Congress may have an interest in how the Census Bureau uses administrative data as it pertains to cost savings, quality of data and its fitness for purpose, and confidentiality of the administrative data sources,” as well as the Bureau’s legal authority pertaining to administrative data and the statistical quality standards applicable to their use.
CRS Report on Census Bureau and Administrative Data
A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research agency serving Congress, explores how the Census Bureau is using “administrative data to reduce respondent burden and data-collection costs, create new data products, and increase the research potential of census data.”
CRS posits that, “Members of Congress may have an interest in how the Census Bureau uses administrative data as it pertains to cost savings, quality of data and its fitness for purpose, and confidentiality of the administrative data sources,” as well as the Bureau’s legal authority pertaining to administrative data and the statistical quality standards applicable to their use.
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