Decennial Census Return Rates: The Role of Social Capital

Julie Hotchkiss

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

Abstract: This paper explores how useful information about social and civic engagement (social capital) might be to the U.S. Census Bureau in their efforts to improve predictions of mail return rates for the Decennial Census (DC) at the census tract level. Through construction of Hard-to-count (HRC) scores and multivariate analysis, we find that if information about social capital were available, predictions of response rates would be marginally improved.

Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2017-01
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Journal Article: US Decennial Census return rates: the role of social capital (2019)
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