Summary File 3 Technical Documentation - Survey Census 2000

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Document:	Summary File 3 Technical Documentation
citation:	Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Technical Documentation, 2002.

Documentation

Census 2000

Summary File 3 Technical Documentation

Census 2000: Summary File 4 (SF 4)

Census 2000: PHC-2, Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics

File Ordering

Chapter 2. How to Use This File

Introduction

Data Format and Access Tools

File Naming Conventions

Reading the Geographic Header Record

Geographic Hierarchy Primer

Record Identification

Summary Level Sequence Chart

Data Structure and Segmentation

User Updates

Chapter 3. Subject Locator

General Information

Subject Locator

Chapter 4. Summary Level Sequence Chart

Chapter 5. List of Tables (Matrices)

Chapter 6. Summary Table Outlines

Population Subjects (Summarized to Block Group Level)

Population Subjects (Summarized to Census Tract Level)

Housing Subjects (Summarized to Block Group Level)

Housing Subjects (Summarized to Census Tract Level)

Chapter 7. Data Dictionary

Identification Section

Footnote Section

Table (Matrix) Section

Chapter 8. Accuracy of the Data

Introduction

Master Address File Development

Service-Based Enumeration

Sample Design

Confidentiality of the Data

Errors in the Data

Limitations of the Group Quarters Data

Calculation of Standard Errors

Using Tables to Compute Standard Errors and Confidence Intervals

Estimation Procedure

People

Housing Units

Consistency with Complete Counts

Nonsampling Error

Types of Nonsampling Error

Reduction of Nonsampling Error

Resolving Multiple Responses

Editing of Unacceptable Data

Appendix A. Census 2000 Geographic Terms and Concepts

Introduction-Geographic Presentation of Data

Hierarchical Presentation

Inventory Presentation

American Indian/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Home Land (AIANA/HHL) Entities

American Indian Area, Alaska Native Area, Hawaiian Home Land

Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANRC)

Alaska Native Village Statistical Area (ANVSA)

American Indian Reservation

American Indian Off-Reservation Trust Land

American Indian Tribal Subdivision

Hawaiian Home Land (HHL)

Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area (OTSA)

State Designated American Indian Statistical Area (SDAISA)

Tribal Designated Statistical Area (TDSA)

Congressional District (CD)

County (or Statistically Equivalent Entity)

County Subdivision

Census County Division (CCD)

Census Subarea

Minor Civil Division (MCD)

Unorganized Territory

Geographic Code

Census Code

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Code

United States Postal Service (USPS) Code

Internal Point

Island Areas of the United States

Metropolitan Area (MA)

Central City

Consolidated and Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA and PMSA)

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Metropolitan Area Title and Code

New England County Metropolitan Area (NECMA)

Place

Census Designated Place (CDP)

Consolidated City

Incorporated Place

Population or Housing Unit Density

Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA)

Puerto Rico

Municipio

Barrio, Barrio-Pueblo, and Subbarrio

Zona Urbana and Comunidad

School District

State (or Statistically Equivalent Entity)

State Legislative District (SLD)

TIGER® Database

Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ)

Urbanized Area Title and Code

Urbanized Area Central Place

Extended Place

Urban Growth Area (UGA)

Voting District (VTD)

ZIP Code® Tabulation Area (ZCTA)

Appendix B. Definitons of Subject Characteristics

Housing Characteristics

Gross Rent as a Percentage of Household Income In 1999

House Heating Fuel

Household Size

Insurance for Fire, Hazard, and Flood

Kitchen Facilities

Meals Included In Rent

Population in Occupied Units

Poverty Status of Households In 1999

Real Estate Taxes

Rooms

Second or Junior Mortgage Payment or Home Equity Loan

Selected Conditions

Selected Monthly Owner Costs

Selected Monthly Owner Costs as a Percentage of Household Income In 1999

Telephone Service Available

Tenure

Value

Year Householder Moved Into Unit

Average

Mean

Special rounding rules for aggregates

Aggregates Subject to Rounding

Median

Percentage

Quartile

Rate

Ratio

Appendix C. Data Collection and Processing Procedures

Enumeration and Residence Rules

United States

Puerto Rico

Major Components of the Census 2000 Plan

The Master Address File

Public Outreach and Marketing

Questionnaire Mailout/Mailback

Collecting Data on Populations Living in Nontraditional Households

Collecting Long Form Data to Meet Federal Requirements

Retrieving and Processing the Data From the Returned Forms

Matching and Unduplication

Geographic Database Development-TIGER®

Field Offices and Staffing

Data Collection: Basic Enumeration Strategy

Special Populations

Telecommunications Support and Automated Data Processing

Quality Assurance

The Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal in 1998

Data Dissemination Through the Internet

Evaluation and Preparation for 2010

Glossary

100-Percent Data

100-Percent Edited Detail File (HEDF)

Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.)

Advance Notice Letter/Reminder Card (ANL/RC)

American FactFinder (AFF)

Apportionment

Be Counted Enumeration and Be Counted Form

Census 2000 Publicity Office (C2PO)

Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994

Census Edited File (CEF)

Census Information Center (CIC)

Census Unedited File (CUF)

Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)

Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI)

Confidentiality

Confidentiality Edit

Coverage Edit/Coverage Edit Follow-Up (CEFU)

Coverage Improvement Adjustment

Coverage Improvement Follow-Up (CIFU)

Data Access and Dissemination System (DADS)

Data Capture Center (DCC)

Data Capture System 2000 (DCS 2000)

Decennial Census

Decennial Master Address File (DMAF)

Decennial Response File (DRF)

Delivery Sequence File (DSF)

Derived Measures

Disclosure Avoidance (DA)

Dual-System Estimation (DSE)

Family

Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)

Long Form

Mailout/Mailback (MO/MB)

Master Address File (MAF)

Metadata

Microdata

Nongovernment Organization

Nonresponse Follow-up

Nonsampling Error

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)

Poststratum

Primary Selection Algorithm (PSA)

Program for Address List Supplementation (PALS)

Public Law (P.L.) 94-171

Public Law (P.L.) 103-430

Public Law (P.L.) 105-119

Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA)

Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

Quality Assurance (QA)

Questionnaire Mailing Strategy

Reapportionment

Redistricting

Sample Census Edited File (SCEF)

Sample Edited Detail File (SEDF)

Sampling Error

Sampling Stratum

Scanner

Seasonal/Recreational/Occasional Use

Separate Living Quarters

Service-Based Enumeration (SBE)

Service Locations

Short Form

Simplified Enumerator Questionnaire (SEQ)

Soup Kitchens

Special Place

Special Place Facility Questionnaire (SPFQ)

State Data Center (SDC)

Summary File (SF)

Summary Table

Tabulation Block

Targeted Nonsheltered Outdoor Location (TNSOL)

Telephone Questionnaire Assistance (TQA)

Thematic Map

Title 13 (United States Code)

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER®)

Transient Night (T-Night)/T-Night Enumeration (TNE)

Type of Enumeration Area (TEA)

Urban Update/Leave (UU/L)

Usual Home Elsewhere (UHE)

Usual Residence

Voting District (VTD)

Whole Household Usual Home Elsewhere (WHUHE)

Appendix D. Questionairre

U. S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census

Original questionairres

Appendix F. Maps

Introduction

Map Descriptions

Census 2000 Block Maps

Census Tract Outline Map (Census 2000)

Appendix G. Code Lists

Acknowledgments

Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Technical Documentation, 2002.

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