Determination of the 2020 U.S. Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) Using Administrative Records and Statistical Methodology Technical Report

John Abowd (), William R. Bell, J. David Brown, Michael B. Hawes, Misty Heggeness (), Andrew D. Keller, Vincent T. Mule, Joseph L. Schafer, Matthew Spence, Lawrence Warren and Moises Yi

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: This report documents the efforts of the Census Bureau’s Citizen Voting-Age Population (CVAP) Internal Expert Panel (IEP) and Technical Working Group (TWG) toward the use of multiple data sources to produce block-level statistics on the citizen voting-age population for use in enforcing the Voting Rights Act. It describes the administrative, survey, and census data sources used, and the four approaches developed for combining these data to produce CVAP estimates. It also discusses other aspects of the estimation process, including how records were linked across the multiple data sources, and the measures taken to protect the confidentiality of the data.

Keywords: citizenship; administrative records; voting-age population; big data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C6 C8 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 117 pages
Date: 2020-10
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