Documentation: ACS 2009 (1-Year Estimates)
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Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Document: Design and Methodology: American Community Survey
citation:
Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; Design and Methodology, American Community Survey. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.
Design and Methodology: American Community Survey
Acronyms
AIANHH American Indian Area/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Homeland
AIANSA American Indian/Alaska Native Village Statistical Area
ACS American Community Survey
ACSO American Community Survey Office
AFF American FactFinder
ALMI Automated Listing and Mapping Instrument
ART Automated Review Tool
ART II Revised Automated Review Tool
ASA American Statistical Association
BAS Boundary and Annexation Survey
BOP Bureau of Prisons
C2SS Census 2000 Supplementary Survey
CAPI Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing
CATI Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing
CAUS Community Address Updating System
CCD Census County Division
CDP Census Designated Place
CIC Census Information Center
CM Continuous Measurements
CPI Consumer Price Index
CPS Current Population Survey
CQR Count Question Resolution
CV Coefficient of Variation
DAAL Demographic Area Address Listing
DCF Data Capture File
DOC Department of Commerce
DOT Department of Transportation
DRB Disclosure Review Board
DSCMO Decennial Systems and Contract Management Office
DSF Delivery Sequence File
EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EMMA Edit Management and Messaging Application
FAIP Federal Agency Information Program
FEFU Failed Edit Follow-Up
FR Field Representative
FSCPE Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GAO Government Accountability Office
GPO Government Printing Office
GQ Group Quarters
GQFQ Group Quarters Facility Questionnaire
GQMOS Group Quarters Measure of Size
GQNF Group Quarters Noninterview Factor
GUMOS Government Unit Measure of Size
HU Housing Unit
HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development
IPE Intercensal Population Estimates
IVR Interactive Voice Recognition
KFI Key-From-Image
KFP Key-From-Paper
LUCA Local Update of Census Addresses
MAF Master Address File
MAFGOR Master Address File Geocoding Office Resolution
MBF Mode Bias Factor
MCD Minor Civil Division
MOS Measure of Size
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NHIS National Health Interview Survey
NPC National Processing Center
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OMR Optical Mark Recognition
PAPI Paper and Pencil Interviewing
PDF Portable Document Format
PIO Public Information Office
PMMA PUMS Management and Messaging Application
POP Population Division
PRA Paperwork Reduction Act
PRCS Puerto Rico Community Survey
PUMA Public Use Microdata Area
PUMS Public Use Microdata Sample
RA Remote Alaska
RO Regional Offices
SDC State Data Center
SDR Successive Differences Replication
SIPP Survey of Income and Program Participation
SP Special Place
SSI Supplemental Security Income
SSS Special Sworn Status
TDD Telephone Device for the Deaf
TEFU Telephone Edit Follow-Up
TIGER® Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
TQA Telephone Questionnaire Assistance
UA Urbanized Area
UAA Undeliverable As Addressed
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
US United States
USC United States Code
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USPS United States Postal Service
WDS Web Data Server

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