Census Undercount Adjustment and the Quality of Geographic Population Distributions
人口普查漏计调整与地理人口分布的质量
We develop a simulation procedure to measure the effects of synthetic adjustment for census undercounts on the quality of estimated proportionate geographic population distributions. Analyzing the influences of both interstate variations in census coverage and measurement errors in national undercount estimates, we find that, over a wide range of environments, nearly two out of every three simulated applications of synthetic adjustment improve the state proportions for a…