Automation Overview -- 2006 Census Test

1. Automation Overview -- 2006 Census Test • Operations Control System (OCS) • Local Census Office tool (office staff, LCO managers, Regional Office) • Manage and track work • All field data collection operations • Assignment Management System (AMS) • Field staff tool (Crew Leaders, Listers) • Tracks work on Hand-Held Computer (HHC) • Address Canvassing and Nonresponse Followup • Instrument • Short form only Census in 2010 • Nonresponse Followup short form questionnaire • Conduct interviews with non-respondents using HHC 2

2. OCS2006 Overview • Computer Assisted Operations • Address Canvassing, Nonresponse Followup • Send and receive work to HHCs • Paper Operations • Group Quarters Validation, GQ Advance Visit, Service Based Enumeration, Group Quarters Enumeration • Tracks paper listing sheets and questionnaires • Productivity reports measure how well we are doing in an operation 3

3. Address Canvassing • OCS tracks work on Hand-Held Computers (HHCs) • Address listing, map, Global Positioning System (GPS) data collected on HHC • maps, assignments transmitted to listers • completed work transmitted to HQ • status data available to LCO • Enumerator assignment information keyed daily in LCO • reports update next day, reflect work performed 5

4. Group Quarters Validation • First conducted in 2004 Test • Group Quarters Validation tracks paper • OCS checks in questionnaires and prints • listing sheets for address registers • map pouch and binder labels • blank listing sheets for adds • Enumerator assignment information keyed daily in LCO • reports update next day, reflect work performed 6

5. GQ Advance Visit • Group Quarters Advance Visit (AV) tracks paper • OCS tracks GQ status and prints • listing sheets and single page questionnaires • map pouch, questionnaire, binder labels • update address, contact name, phone, expected population • add, delete GQs • Enumerator assignment information keyed daily in LCO • reports update next day, reflect work performed • OCS training for AV includes training for enumerations (Group Quarters and Service Based) 7

6. Service Based and Group Quarters Enumeration • Workloads from Advance Visit results • Service Based Enumeration (SBE) and Group Quarters Enumeration (GQE) track paper • OCS tracks GQ status and prints • assignment control sheets • questionnaire labels • check in control sheet and questionnaires • Enumerator assignment information keyed daily in LCO • reports update next day, reflect work performed • OCS training for SBE and GQE conducted during Advance Visit training 8

7. Update Enumerate • Update Enumerate (UE) tracks paper • Questionnaire and address updates collected on paper • OCS checks in questionnaires and prints • listing sheets for address registers • map pouch and binder labels • Enumerator assignment information keyed daily in LCO • reports update next day, reflect work performed 8

8. Nonresponse Followup • Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) tracks work on HHCs • Questionnaire data collected on HHC, transmitted to HQ, status data available to LCO • Crew Leader functionality • accessed via password • enumerator work assigned, reassigned, reviewed, accepted on HHC • electronic progress reports transmitted to manage/monitor crew 9

9. Nonresponse Followup Reinterview • Separate Reinterview (Quality Control) operation • Similar applications as NRFU • Matching Review and Coding System (MaRCS) resides on desktop computers in LCO • MaRCS • match NRFU and reinterview data • trouble reports identifying outliers (data falls outside acceptable range) • select sample cases for OCS 10