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pdf2018 End‐to‐End Census Test
Baselined Version 2.2
October 14, 2016
The contents of this document are:
List of the 34 Operations and Program Managers for the 2020 Census
2018 End‐to‐End Census Test Scope Diagram
2018 End‐to‐End Census Test – High Level Timeline
Key information for the 2018 End‐to‐End Census Test
Systems and Operations not previously included in a Census Test
Operational Areas – Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
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34 Operations for the 2020 Census and 2018 End‐to‐End Census Test and Program Manager
(Operations highlighted in RED are out of Scope for the 2018 End‐to‐End Census Test)
Operation
Program Manager
Program Management
Deidre Hicks
Systems Engineering and Integration
Pete Boudriault
Security, Privacy and Confidentiality
Pam Mosley
Content and Forms Design
Jenny Kim
Language Services
Jenny Kim
Decennial Service Center
Raphael Corrado
Field Infrastructure
Bryn Johnson
Decennial Logistics Management
Bryn Johnson
IT Infrastructure
Pete Boudriault
Geographic Programs
Evan Moffett
Local Update of Census Addresses
Out of Scope
Address Canvassing (In‐Office, In‐Field)
Evan Moffett
Forms Printing and Distribution
Alexa Jones‐Puthoff
Paper Data Capture
Alexa Jones‐Puthoff
Integrated Partnership and Communications
Tasha Boone
Internet Self‐Response
Alexa Jones‐Puthoff
Non‐ID Processing
Evan Moffett
Update Enumerate (Remote Alaska – out of Scope)
Evan Moffett
Group Quarters
Evan Moffett
Enumeration at Transitory Locations
Out of Scope
Census Questionnaire Assistance
Sheila Proudfoot
Nonresponse Followup
Maryann Chapin
Response Processing
Raphael Corrado
Federally Affiliated American Count Overseas
Out of Scope
Data Products and Dissemination
Jenny Kim
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Redistricting Data (Prototype Only)
James Whitehorne
Count Review
Out of Scope
Count Questionnaire Resolution
Out of Scope
Archiving
Jacqueline Eanes
Island Areas Censuses
Out of Scope
Coverage Measurement Design and Estimation
Maryann Chapin
Coverage Measurement Matching
Maryann Chapin
Coverage Measurement Field Operations
Maryann Chapin
Evaluations and Experiments
Out of Scope
(Note – Assessments are included and are a part of the individual operations.)
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Key information for the 2018 End‐to‐End Census Test
Purpose
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To validate that the operations in scope for the 2018 End‐to‐End Census Test (2018 E2E) are ready to go into production for the 2020 Census.
To test and validate major operational threads, procedures, systems, and infrastructure (IT and non‐IT) together to ensure proper integration and conformance with
functional and non‐functional requirements.
Produce a prototype of geographic and data products.
Constraints
Budget limitations might impact the end‐to‐end test scope impacting our ability to perform adequate testing in preparation for conducting the 2020 Census.
Considerations for
Site Selection
Considerations for site selection:
• Full‐scale Area Census Offices (ACOs) to test organizational structure and IT considerations. (Test ACO model for staffing ratios and equipment.)
• Areas cover all Regional Census Centers (RCCs). (Provides experience for RCCs. Also the first RCC will open in January 2017 and the first ACO in March 2017)
• Consider leaving certain offices in place after this for 2020
• Multiple time zones
• Sites need to reflect what we want to test
o 1 Urban – Self‐Response
o 1 Suburban/Rural ‐ Update Enumerate (UE)
• Languages – Sites should include as many languages as possible that we plan to support in 2020. These will most likely cluster in urban areas that will have been selected
for other purposes too. The languages being planned for Internet are: English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, and Tagalog.
• Locating ACOs in existing GSA space speeds the space leasing process.
• Self‐Response – national representation for Type of Enumeration Area (TEA) in the 2020 Census (exception – Island Areas, Alaska and Military Update Leave (UL)/Update
Enumerate (UE) are out of scope)
• Puerto Rico is not in scope for the test.
IT related site selection criteria:
• Geographic considerations:
o Extreme heat (especially as we had issues with mobile instruments in the 2015 Census Test)
o Extremely humid area
o Extremely dry area
o High altitude area
o Extremely rural area
o Densely populated area
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Assumptions
Listing and Mapping
o Requires the testing of large blocks
Multi units
Group Quarters (GQ) (Military UL/UE are out of scope)
Densely populated blocks (1000+ addresses and map spots)
Physically large blocks (rural areas where a block can span many square miles)
Connectivity
o Area that will test disconnected/limited bandwidth users for both mapping and enumeration
o Areas with different cellular service providers
Test the ability to support areas of network limitations/degradation (i.e., stress) and network bandwidth requirements for 2020 Census (e.g., considering high latency and
low bandwidth)
Select enough sites that are geographically dispersed to test latency and system performance. (Site may need to support full‐scale ACO from beginning to end, if workload
warrants it.)
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Census Day is April 1, 2018
All systems that use Administrative Records will be tested in the 2018 E2E.
The following contracts will be in place and will participate in the 2018 E2E:
o Census Questionnaire Assistance (CQA) – Award contract July 2016
o Decennial Service Center (DSC) – Award contract July 2016
o Integrated Partnerships and Communication (IPC) – Award Contract August 2016
Field Infrastructure –
o ACOs, Device as a Service, Government Furnished Equipment
o Telecom
o Office in a Box
o Furniture
The results of the 2018 E2E will be used to finalize workload models for the 2020 Census.
Any support function, such as Systems Engineering & Integration, Language Services, and Security, Privacy & Confidentiality to support the 2018 E2E will be in scope.
Systems Requirements Reviews, Production Readiness Reviews and Operational Readiness Reviews will be implemented for the 2018 E2E.
System scalability will not be directly tested in the 2018 E2E.
Instrument, Format, Content and Contact Strategies will be finalized prior to conducting the 2018 E2E and will be used.
No research‐related tests in the 2018 E2E.
Paper Data Capture will be performed at National Processing Center (NPC). (Jeffersonville campus only. Tucson Contact Center will not be available for the 2018 E2E.)
All of the Memoranda Of Understanding and inter‐agency agreements have been activated for the 2018 E2E.
Any defects resulting from the 2018 E2E will be resolved during calendar year 2019.
Study Plans and Assessments will be performed to validate operations as applicable.
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Systems and Operations not previously included in a Census Test
SYSTEMS
OPERATIONS
System
Description
Group Quarter
Enumeration Portal (TBD)
Group Quarters operation introduced (military bases, college campus, retirement homes, etc.)
• Heavily administrative records‐based (estimated 50%)
2018 E2E will need some capability to provide external interfaces where people can upload
administrative records
For Address Canvassing, Listing QC, with full ECaSE / SMaRCS
interface to support address listing operations
eCorrespondence
In‐Office Group Quarters Advance Contact will need capability to:
Send email to GQ POCs;
Share access letters, brochures, etc.
Store information collected for the upcoming enumeration, i.e. enumeration date,
time, expected population count, preferred enumeration mode,
Group Quarters
Partnership Communication
System
Introduces new capabilities to include:
Partnership Fulfillment
Partnership Portal
Data Products and Dissemination
American Community Survey
Tabulation Services
System to perform data tabulation
Redistricting Data
Center for Enterprise
Dissemination Services and
Consumer Innovation (CEDSCI)I
System for data dissemination
Archiving
Census Schedule A Human
Resources, Recruiting, and
Payroll System (C‐SHaRPS)
System for recruiting, hiring and onboarding of field staff. C‐SHaRPS essentially replaces the
discontinued Census Automated Recruiting and Administrative Tools (CARAT) project. For 2020
Census, C‐SHaRPS will not replace the Decennial Applicant Personnel and Payroll System
(DAPPS), but must integrate with DAPPS. (A post‐2020 replacement of DAPPS may be explored
under the C‐SHaRPS contract.)
Coverage Measurement – Design and Estimation
Coverage Measurement – Matching
Coverage Measurement – Field Operations
Other:
• While the physical configuration of systems will be commensurate to the limited scale of 2018 E2E, all systems must be
engineered to scale up to full 2020 Census size.
• Every system targeted to be in the cloud will be in the 2018 E2E.
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Operations that will be introduced
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Census /Survey Engineering
Program Management (Deidre Hicks)
Define and implement program management policies,
processes, and the control functions for planning and
implementing the 2018 E2E.
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Governance – Deidre Hicks (Adam Bacon)
Strategic Communication (internal/external) – Kim Higgenbotham
Strategic Management – Deidre Hicks (Adam Bacon)
Document Management – Deidre Hicks (Latasha Thompson)
Change Management – Deidre Hicks (Latasha Thompson)
Knowledge Management – Maryann Chapin (Randall Neugebauer)
Acquisition and Sourcing Management – Leslie Godwin (Rebecca Diaz‐
Cartegena)
Budget Management – Ed Kobilarcik
Schedule Management – Jacqueline Eanes (Kelly Gioffre)
Performance Management – Jacqueline Eanes (Sherry Thorpe)
Human Capital Management – Darlene Ursitti (Tia Lee)
Risk and Issues Management – Deidre Hicks (LaTasha Thompson)
Systems Engineering and Integration (Pete Boudriault and Natasha Barilaro)
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Manage the delivery of a system of systems that
meets 2018 E2E program business and capability
requirements.
At the program‐level, manage the full Enterprise
Systems Development Life Cycle for systems
supporting the 2018 E2E.
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Exercise and test all included 2020 critical systems (CEDCaP and Non
CEDCaP), operations and procedures together to ensure proper integration
and conformance with functional and non‐functional requirements.
Ensure data validation occurs at each dataflow interchange.
Verify inputs, outputs and data transformations.
Systems performance will meet service level agreements
Test latency and system performance in geographically dispersed sites.
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Constraints/Issues
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Verify through inspection of architectural artifacts that systems are
engineered to be able to meet scalability requirements for 2020.
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Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality (Pete Boudriault and Pam Mosley)
All planned security systems listed in the scope for
Security, Privacy and Confidentiality are in place and
operating
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Enterprise IT infrastructure and Telecommunications Systems
Enterprise Security Operations Center (SCC)
Enterprise Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
Enterprise Security Vulnerability management systems
Enterprise Audit Log Repository
Enterprise Operating System (OS) Security Baseline Management
Application Security Baseline Management System.
Content and Forms Design (Jenny Kim and Acting Branch Chief for Content, Language and Data Products Branch)
Identify and finalize content and design of questionnaires
and other non‐questionnaire materials, ensure
consistency across data collection modes and operations,
and promote high response rates and accurate and
consistent responses across modes.
Data Collection Instruments
• Internet
• Paper, including GQ
• CQA
• Mobile Device
• GQ (electronic)
Non‐questionnaire Mailing Materials
• Letters
• Postcards
• Brochures
• Informational Inserts
• Envelopes
Materials for field operations
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Constraints:
Use and availability of ECaSE systems.
Paper questionnaire size limits (16 pages) due to
serialization requirements
Notes:
• Final determination not made on serialization of bilingual
questionnaires. The decision will depend on the final
question wording for 2018/2020. We will need results of
the 2017 test on the tribal enrollment question to
determine the questionnaire length and whether or not
they will exceed the 16 page limit.
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More questionnaire pages impacts mailing, storage and
data capture
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Notice of Visit
Information Sheet (privacy notice and residence rules)
Language Services (Jenny Kim and Acting Branch Chief for Content, Language and Data Products Branch)
Assess and support language needs of non‐English
speaking populations for all modes and other mailing and
field materials, determine the number of languages and
level of support required, optimize non‐English content,
and ensure cultural relevancy and meaningful translation
of non‐English materials.
Non‐English Data Collection Instruments
• Internet (Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic,
Tagalog)
• Paper(Spanish)
• CQA (Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog)
• Enumeration Device (Spanish)
• GQ (electronic) (Spanish)
Non‐English Mailing Materials (Spanish)
• Letters
• Postcards
• Brochures
• Informational Inserts
• Envelopes
Non‐English Materials for field operations (Spanish)
• Notice of Visit
• Information Sheet (privacy notice and residence rules
Constraints/Issues:
• Lengthy translation process
• Pre‐testing of non‐English materials
• Availability of language capabilities in ECaSE systems and
timelines for incorporating content in non‐English
languages for the Internet self response instrument
(Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic,
Tagalog) and the enumeration instrument (Spanish)
Infrastructure
Decennial Service Center (Raphael Corrado and Brian De Vos)
Support 2018 E2E Census Field Operations and handle all
service requests initiated by field staff.
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Support field applications (e.g., ECaSE)
Meet Service Level Agreements (SLA)
Collect metrics for service response time, staffing, etc.
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
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Field Infrastructure (Bryn Johnson and Acting Branch Chief for Field Infrastructure Branch)
Coordinate space acquisition for and lease management
of the Regional Census Centers and field offices and
provide the administrative infrastructure for data
collection operations.
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Open RCCs 1/2/17
Open Early ACOs 03/31/17
Test automation of recruiting, hiring and onboarding.
Constraints:
• Not testing RCC/ACO space.
Decennial Logistics Management (Bryn Johnson and Acting Branch Chief for Field Infrastructure Branch)
Provide logistics management services to include
procuring warehouse space, warehousing, inventory
management, kit assembly, deployment of materials, and
receiving and excessing materials.
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Inventory management
Kit assembly
Deployment of materials
Receiving and excessing materials
IT Infrastructure (Pete Boudriault and Dan Lewis) (Raphael Corrado and Brian De Vos, for Field IT Infrastructure)
Provide the information technology‐related infrastructure
support to the 2018 E2E, including:
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Enterprise systems and applications.
Decennial specific systems, applications, and
interfaces.
Field IT infrastructure (including remote offices, data
center, and the paper data capture center)
Mobile Computing
Gain experience moving to new IT infrastructure,
including cloud computing and services
Deploy IT infrastructure in RCCs to meet the needs of the 2018 E2E ‐‐ RCC
Opens 01/02/17
Deploy IT infrastructure in Early ACOs to meet the needs of the 2018 E2E –
ACOs open 03/31/17
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Any systems targeted to be hosted in the cloud in 2020 will be hosted in
the cloud for the 2018 E2E.
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Implement fingerprinting‐as‐a‐service and verify it meets all
functional and non‐functional requirements.
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
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Frame
Geographic Programs (Evan Moffett and Ross Davis)
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Provide the geographic foundation in support of the 2018 E2E data
collection and tabulation activities, including delineation of boundaries
in the MAF/TIGER System,
Delivery of address and spatial extracts from the MAF/TIGER System,
updates to the MAF/TIGER System.
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Site selection
Maps
Geocoding activities
Type of Enumeration Area
Basic Collection Unit (BCU)
Local Update of Census Addresses (Evan Moffett and Mark Scheu)
Out of Scope
Address Canvassing (Evan Moffett and Shawn Hanks)
Deliver a complete and accurate address list and spatial database for
enumeration and determine the type and address characteristics for each
living quarter.
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Conduct In‐Office Address Canvassing. (This operation went into
production in September 2015.)
Conduct In‐Field Address Canvassing only for the BCUs that In‐Office
Address Canvassing identified as needing field work.
Conduct the planned listing QC (In prior tests we conducted a re‐listing
rather than a QC.)
Response Data
Forms Printing and Distribution (Alexa Jones‐Puthoff and Mark Wolfram)
Print and distribute Internet invitations, reminder postcards, and
questionnaire mailing packages to support the 2018 E2E mailing strategy and
enumeration of the population.
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2020 Print Contract Award
Print and distribute Self‐Response materials:
o Letters for internet invitations
o Reminder postcards
o Questionnaire mailing packages
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Issue:
• If paper questionnaire fulfillment
becomes in‐scope (see Change
Request P‐0219), NPC may be the
solution for on‐demand printing,
Decision pending.
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Paper Data Capture (Alexa Jones‐Puthoff and Acting Branch Chief for NPC and Paper Processing)
Capture and convert data from the 2018 E2E paper questionnaires.
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Check‐in and data capture paper questionnaires including:
o Document preparation
o Scanning
o Using Optical Character Recognition
o Using Optical Mark Recognition
o Key from Image
o Editing
o Checkout
One paper data capture center, located at NPC.
Staffing (NPC plans to hire staff for 2018 E2E.)
Equipment
Space on the current NPC campus will be utilized for the 2018 E2E.( A
decision regarding space for 2020 is expected by 10/1/2016. E. JARRELL)
Integrated Partnerships and Communications (Tasha Boone and Terri Long)
Evaluate opt‐out text messaging as a communications platform.
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Evaluate text messaging as an advertising tool with the option to opt out.
Provide response link directly through text messaging.
Expanded use of digital address‐based targeting.
Digitally target IP addresses of all potential respondents, not just Hard To
Count (HTC) groups.
• Deliver stage‐tailored messaging about response directly to
nonrespondents.
• Use non‐HTC specific targeting (e.g., tailored messages by county)
• Leverage learnings from all previous digital advertising tests.
Implement Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionalities
(including the Partnership Website)and integration of components with data
collection process.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of CRM as a robust and cohesive platform to
manage partner and customer interactions.
Evaluate integration and multi‐way communication between all
components of the CRM for better data collection.
Evaluate the effectiveness of CRM in integrating online customer support
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
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services (e.g. chat, access to FAQ, click to call, online support history) with
online data collection processes to provide respondents with access to real‐
time help.
Deploy partnership website.
Measure acceptance and usage level of website by partners.
Measure reasons for use of portal by partners (e.g., is the portal mostly
accessed to request materials, submit questions, or receive information on
upcoming events?).
Integrate with CQA for the coordination of comprehensive 2020 Census FAQs
for use by all operations that have a need.
Develop and update FAQs to use across multiple operations to include:
• data integration
• reporting
• process for call transfers
Implement fulfillment center operations.
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Use the Customer Experience Management (CEM) system as the primary
source for test monitoring and success measurement.
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Integrate the internally‐owned Data Management Platform (DMP) and
Demand‐Side Platform (DSP) systems in support of programmatic buying.
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Evaluate integration and communication between the fulfillment center
and all customer point of access/contact channels (including partnership
portal, CQA Program).
Evaluate integration of the partnership portal and fulfillment center with
the Customer Interaction Platform.
Incorporate more response and operational data into CEM.
Determine/display the correct site response rate.
Develop additional dashboard to monitor test components.
Test direct connection to data sources instead of manual loads to remove
human error, improve data latency, and allow for more flexibility in
analysis.
Identify potential recommendations for adjustments to improve response
rate.
Evaluate DMP as a centralized data analytics and data distribution system
to support decision‐making for marketing strategy.
Evaluate integration and communication between DMP and DSP systems.
Evaluate usage of first, second, and third party data on our ability to
effectively target digital advertising to drive response rates.
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Constraints/Issues
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Utilize Low Response Score (LRS)
• Conduct partnership surges in hardest to count tracts.
• Determine how best to provide data for Rapid Response Outreach for
partners.
Develop, collect, track and analyze IPC performance metrics
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Identify appropriate performance metrics that will more effectively
determine success for partnership and communication efforts.
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Mail Strategy for UE:
o Invitation letter with questionnaire
o Reminder 1
o Reminder 2
Mail Strategy all other:
o Invitation letter, with a questionnaire for a sample
o Reminder 1
o Reminder 2
o Questionnaire
o Reminder – “It’s not too Late”
Validate the 2020 contact strategy workload model
Internet Self‐Response (Alexa Jones‐Puthoff and Jason Reese)
Collect response data via the Internet to reduce paper and Nonresponse
Followup and maximize online response via contact strategies and improved
access to respondents.
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Non‐ID Processing (Evan Moffett and Frank McPhillips)
Make it easy for people to respond anytime, anywhere to increase self‐
response rates by providing response options that do not require a unique
Census ID.
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Collect/Accept responses without IDs
Conduct both automated and clerical Non‐ID operations
Conduct Non‐ID Response Validation
Conduct Office‐Based Address Verification (OBAV) for eligible Non‐ID
cases
Generate workload for Field Verification operation (for cases not
resolved in OBAV)
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Issue:
• a Fraud Detection team is being stood
up. Fraud Detection is to subsume
Non‐ID Response Validation, but will
also apply to ID responses. Fraud
Detection is expected to effect the
scope of both Non‐ID Processing and
Response Processing operations.
Details are TBD.
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Conduct UE, with improved technical implementation (based on lessons
learned from 2017 Census Test and 2017 Puerto Rico Census Test).
Evaluate staffing ratios for UE.
In‐Field listing QC
Issue:
• The plan is to leave a paper
questionnaire rather than a notice of
visit for American Indian reservations
that request paper, but the only
opportunity to test this in 2018 E2E is
in the one site with a reservation
(Pierce Co, WA). UE counts are so
small at that test site that discussion
has been had about absorbing UE into
other TEAs.
Use administrative records to build frame and conduct enumeration.
Use applications to list and enumerate, if a GQ is discovered in the field.
Advance Visit – In‐Office and In‐Field. We will ask if the GQ can send
electronic records. If yes, the electronic Administrative Records universe
will be updated.
GQ Enumeration
o Electronic Administrative records
o In‐Field enumeration ‐ Includes the use of paper questionnaire for
two enumeration methodologies (drop off/ pick up ICRs and Facility
Self‐Enumeration)
Military GQs (land based installations) – Included in the Electronic
Administrative records universe
Military Vessels – Use electronic Administrative records
Maritime Vessels – Paper Questionnaire and mailed package tracking
Constraints:
• Census staff may not be allowed on
Military bases.
Issues:
• We do not have a solution to link
people/respondents to Maritime
Vessels. If Maritime Vessels are
enumerated using paper, what are
the assumptions about the form: size,
number of pages, iCADE data capture,
Key from Paper, distribution of
questionnaires and related
instructional materials?
Update Enumerate (Evan Moffett, Shawn Hanks, and Julia Lopez)
Update the address and feature data and enumerate housing units in certain
designated geographic areas with special enumeration needs (e.g., areas that
do not have city‐style addresses and areas with unique challenges associated
with accessibility).
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Group Quarters (Evan Moffett and Dora Durante)
Enumerate people living or staying in group quarters.
Provide an opportunity for people experiencing homelessness, and people
receiving service at service‐based locations to be included in the Census.
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Enumeration at Transitory Locations (Maryann Chapin and Acting Branch Chief for Nonresponse Operations Branch )
Out of Scope
Census Questionnaire Assistance (Sheila Proudfoot and Kevin Zajac)
Provide questionnaire assistance for respondents by answering questions
about specific items on the census form or other frequently asked questions,
provide an option for callers to complete a census interview over the
telephone, and support Census Outbound Operations to verify respondent
information as a follow up activity.
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CQA contract award in July 2016
Several CQA Centers nationwide that will be linked
Estimated Workload is 15% of the HUs will contact CQA
Inbound Assistance includes: telephone, Web chat, and email
o First implementation of Web chat and email
Outbound Operations: expect Reinterview operations, i.e. NRFU, UE
• Non‐English language to be supported: Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese,
Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog,
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• Workload will not be representative
of the national 2020 Census.
Issue:
• Ongoing research may point to the
addition of a new operation, Coverage
Followup (also referred to as Quality
Improvement) for 2020 Census, and
possibly 2018 E2E. If added, CQA
outbound call support would be
needed.
Nonresponse Followup (Maryann Chapin and Acting Branch Chief for Nonresponse Operations Branch)
Determine housing unit status for nonresponding addresses and enumerate
housing units for which a census response was not received.
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NRFU:
o Use Administrative records modeling to limit workload
o Use reengineered operations control system to optimize case
assignments and routing
NRFU Re‐Interview QC:
o Standard sample of cases
o CQA for phone followup to minimize field work
Operations Control System – for field alerts in areas of potential concern.
Conduct Field Verification for Non‐ID cases that we do not have a
sufficient match, or falls out of Non‐ID.
o Conducted by field enumerators
Contact managers of multiunit buildings prior to enumeration to identify
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
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vacant and non‐household units to reduce number of enumerator visits.
Incorporate procedures and questionnaire enhancements for proxy visits.
Test the capability to stop field work, pause field work, or reassign field
work for special situations (i.e., flooding).
Process apartment mix‐ups
Add cases to the NRFU workload from other sources (i.e. late adds, LUCA
appeals).
Response Processing (Raphael Corrado and Charles Fowler)
Exercise and test each component within the three phases of the Response
Processing Operation
Pre Data Collection Phase –
• Create initial enumeration universe.
• Manage initial universe address updates from Address Canvassing, and
other update operations to create initial enumeration universes.
• Deliver sample delivery files and workload management files in
support of enumeration operations.
• Manage contact strategies in support of self‐response operations.
Data Collection Phase –
• Collect and process self‐response questionnaire responses.
• Collect and process Update Enumerate questionnaire responses.
• Support NRFU (administrative records modeling, remove cases from
the workload if eligible, create NRFU workloads, provide Field
Verification workloads, support NRFU re‐interview).
• Collect and process group quarters enumeration responses.
Post Data Collection Phase –
• Conduct response data processing including race and Hispanic origin
coding, residence coding, creating a final response file, running the
Primary Selection Algorithm, and performing count imputation.
• Create the Census Unedited File (CUF) (Stateside); send for
development of an Apportionment Count prototype by Data Products
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Constraints/Issues
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
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Constraints/Issues
and Dissemination.
Create the Census Edited File (CEF).
Create the Microdata File; send for data products prototype
development by Data Products and Dissemination.
Federally Affiliated American Count Overseas (Judy Belton and Acting Branch Chief for Military and Overseas Enumeration Branch)
Out of Scope
Publish Data
Data Products and Dissemination (Jenny Kim and Jane Ingold)
Detailed planning for this operation has not started. The narrative that follows
represents the Census Bureau’s preliminary thoughts as of the release of this
document.
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Purpose
Data Products and Dissemination operation performs three primary functions: •
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• Prepare and deliver the 2020 Census apportionment data for the
President of the United States to provide to Congress by December 31,
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2020.
• Tabulate 2020 Census data products for use by the states for redistricting.
• Tabulate and disseminate 2020 Census data for use by the public.
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Tabulate and disseminate Census Redistricting Prototype File and release
geographic products for use by the states for redistricting. We will use the
selected test area(s) as the prototype for all states to review. We will also
have Voting Districts put back into current geography, with GEO’s help,
prior to the test.
Disseminate 2018 E2E data for use by the public.
Include end‐to‐end system readiness in the test with replication of the
2010 apportionment counts as well as the receipt of the 2018 E2E CUF.
Create GEO shape files. It is often included in the Redistricting Data
Operation since it is part of the progression of the phases. CRVRDO
expects shapefiles and maps for the test area to be delivered with the
prototype data tabulations.
Development of summary levels to support both the Redistricting
prototype and the Decennial product which is an API or Widget.
Tabulation by ACS [a Decision made].
DCMD and POP have developed a strategy to fulfill the end‐to‐end testing
for apportionment by replicating interface hand‐offs and replicating the
2010 calculation with 2018 E2E test and verification plans.
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Redistricting Data (James Whitehorne)
The purpose of the Redistricting Data operation is to provide to each state the
legally required P.L. 94‐171 redistricting data tabulations by the mandated
deadline of 1 year from Census Day: April 1, 2021.
The major components in the 2018 E2E include:
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Testing the method of product dissemination through CEDSCI and
obtaining feedback from stakeholders
Obtaining feedback from stakeholders on content of the data and support
products included in P.L. 94‐171 data and geographic products.
Count Review (Maryann Chapin)
Out of Scope
Count Question Resolution (Evan Moffett)
Out of Scope
Archiving (Jacqueline Eanes and Jennifer Saindon)
The purpose of the Archiving operation for the 2018 E2E Census Test is to
provide files containing individual responses to the National Processing Center
(NPC) to use as source materials to conduct the Age Search Service and to
provide images and data for research and evaluations in CIRA through DMS.
Archiving response data in DMS
Archiving paradata in DMS
Archiving for CIRA
Archiving for NARA is out‐of‐scope
Other Censuses
Island Areas (Jenny Kim and Will Caldwell)
Out of Scope
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Test and Evaluation
Coverage Measurement Design and Estimation (Maryann Chapin and Tim Kennel)
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Develop the initial survey design for the post‐enumeration survey (or Survey Design
CM survey) for the 2020 Census and test that all the planned 2020 CM
operations implemented in the 2018 E2E are: working as expected,
that they are all integrated internally, provide the appropriate data
required for estimation purposes, and that they are coordinated with
the appropriate census operations.
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Develop the initial sampling plan for the post‐enumeration survey (or
CM survey) for the 2020 Census and test that all the planned 2020 CM
sampling operations implemented in the 2018 E2E are working as
expected, that they are integrated with the data collection and
matching activities, and that they access the appropriate census data.
This will be the starting plan to develop the software systems to
design and select the initial sample and subsequent subsampling
operations to support the 2020 CM survey operations and the
estimation of coverage estimates in the 2020 Census for the U.S. and
Puerto Rico, excluding remote Alaska and Group Quarters.
Overall Research Question:
Does the proposed 2020 survey design allow
us to:
• Collect, match and process the data
required to estimate net coverage
and components of census coverage
for persons and housing units?
• Process and analyze all estimates
before October 1, 2019?
Constraint:
• The milestone dates for disseminating
coverage estimates is dependent on
dates for producing the CUF and the
CEF.
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Sampling timing and operational feasibility
Persons in housing units, and housing units are in‐scope.
Persons in group quarters, and group quarters are out of scope.
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Constraints:
• Stratification and sample allocation
will be limited by the small number of
sites.
• Stratification and allocation for the
full coverage measurement sample in
2020 will include additional variables.
Issues:
• What are the operational challenges
associated with using ACS and
Planning Database data to stratify the
CM sample?
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
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To test that all (or possibly a subset) of the planned 2020 CM estimation
activities are working as expected, including accessing appropriate census
data.
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This will be the starting plan to develop the software systems to produce
2020 Census CM estimates of net coverage error and the components of
census coverage for housing units and persons living in housing units for
the U.S. and Puerto Rico, excluding Remote Alaska and Group Quarters.
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Scope
Constraints/Issues
Estimation timing and operational feasibility.
Persons in housing units, and housing units are in‐scope.
Persons in group quarters, and group quarters are out of scope.
Constraints:
• Estimates of net and gross coverage
will be limited to the 2018 E2E sites.
Matching outside the sites for
duplicates and geocoding errors will
not be possible since the census
enumerations will be limited to sites.
Furthermore full models for
estimation cannot accurately be
tested, because the 2020 models will
have a larger sample size, making it
possible to build larger models that
draw strength from more areas.
• Because Demographic Analysis is out
of scope for the 2018 End to End
Census Test, parts of the estimation
process that use Demographic
Analysis will not be fully tested prior
to the 2020 Census.
Coverage Measurement Matching (Maryann Chapin and Magda Ramos)
CM Housing Unit Computer (Automated) Matching
Design, develop and test CM Housing Unit Computer (automated) Matching
for the 2018 E2E, as a prototype for the 2020 Census CM automation.
Move HU matching and follow‐up operations closer to the listing
operation.
Test matching to a sample of housing units which appeared on the
initial census, but were dropped at some point during census
processing. This may help with the match to non‐ID cases from the
2020 Census.
Rely more on the automated matching systems than the clerical
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1. What are the requirements for computer
matching for the CM program?
2. Can we improve the matching software to
be able to send fewer cases to clerical
matching operations?
3. How do changes on schedule of
operations and survey design affect the
matching results?
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
matchers.
Automate the assignment of status codes and address information
where possible.
Determine if administrative records can be used in CM matching
operations.
Design, develop and test CM Housing Unit Clerical Matching for the 2018 E2E,
as a prototype for the 2020 Census CM automation.
1. Refine Clerical Matching System Approach; simplify the CM clerical
matching tasks.
2. Rely more on the clerical matching system than the clerical matchers.
3. Automate the assignment of match codes and address information
where possible.
4. Develop and implement appropriate training.
CM Housing Unit Clerical Matching
Design, develop and test CM Person Computer (automated) Matching for the
2018 E2E, as a prototype for the 2020 Census CM automation.
CM plans to refine the approach used for
clerical matching—– Plan to develop new
approach that puts more of the matching
rules logic in the system. The new system
would require the users to answer several key
questions about a particular scenario, and
using that information, the system would
assign the appropriate code and determine
any appropriate follow‐up actions.
1. What are the requirements for the CM
clerical matching system?
2. What are the requirements for the map
viewing system used by the clerical
matchers to compare CM and census
maps?
3. How do changes on schedule of
operations and survey design affect the
matching results?
CM Person Computer (Automated) Matching
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Constraints/Issues
1. What are the requirements for the CM
computer matching systems?
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
1. Test matching to a sample of persons which appeared on the initial census,
but were dropped at some point during census processing. This may help
with the match to non‐ID cases from the 2020 Census.
2. Rely more on the automated matching systems than the clerical matchers.
3. Automate the assignment of match codes and address information where
possible.
4. Determine if administrative records can be used in CM matching
operations.
Design, develop and test CM Person Clerical Matching for the 2018 E2E, as a
prototype for the 2020 Census CM automation.
Constraints/Issues
2. How do changes on schedule of
operations and survey design affect the
match results?
3. How can we use alternative address
information, if collected in the census?
4. Can we implement matching to the
imputation resulting from the use of
administrative records?
CM Person Clerical Matching and Geocoding
CM plans to refine the approach used for
clerical matching:
Plan to develop new approach that puts more
of the matching rules logic in the system. The
new system would require the users to
answer several key questions about a
particular scenario, and using that
information, the system would assign the
appropriate code and perform any
appropriate follow‐up actions.
1. Refine Clerical Matching System Approach; simplify the CCM clerical
matching tasks.
2. Rely more on the clerical matching system than the clerical matchers.
3. Automate the assignment of status codes and address information where
possible.
4. Develop and implement appropriate training.
1. What are the requirements for the CM
clerical matching system?
2. How do changes on schedule of
operations and survey design affect the
matching results?
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Coverage Measurement Field Operations (Maryann Chapin and Magda Ramos)
Design, develop and test CM Survey automation and implementation for the
2018 E2E, as a prototype for the 2020 Census CM automation.
CM Field Operations Overall
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1. What instrument form factor do we need
for the CM Program? Laptop, tablet or
smartphone? Preference is to use
laptops as was done in 2010.
2. What are the effects of Reengineered
Field Operations on budget and
schedule?
3. Can CM operations properly interact with
the new and corporate data processing
and field management software?
4. How to ensure independence between
the coverage measurement survey and
the census?
5. Can we process CM operations on a flow
basis as census and CM operations finish
by geography?
6. What is the best schedule for the
different CM data collection activities?
7. Can SMaRCS be used appropriately to
sample cases for CM QC of field
operations?
8. Test QC for CM field operations. This will
require automated quality control
instruments.
9. Use the same (or as similar as possible)
demographic questions in the 2020 CM
person operations as those used in the
2020 Census.
10. Determine any changes to the coverage
questions, given the 2020 Census
Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
addition of similar questions in the
census.
CM Independent Listing (IL)
1. How to automate and ensure appropriate
implementation using the ECaSE
application for CM Independent Listing
from scratch (not using the MAF), and
ensure appropriate implementation?
2. Consider if we need to actually talk to
respondents during IL to try to identify
hidden units or whether we could do that
during the CM Person Interview.
3. Determine how to handle units identified
as Group Quarters.
1. How to improve on 2010 PV CAPI
CM Person Interview (PI) – Personal Visit (PV)
instrument automation?
Although the PI operation was automated in 2010, refinements are required to 2. Test any new questions needed for CM
content and functionality and instrument needs to be operational with new
given changes to census questionnaire, in
corporate tracking and control systems and potentially with new instrument
particular, coverage questions?
development (authoring) language and/or new platform.
3. How to automate and ensure appropriate
implementation?
CM Person Followup Interview
1. Test any new questions needed for CM
given changes to census questionnaire, in
particular, coverage questions?
2. How to automate and ensure appropriate
implementation?
CM Housing Unit Followup – implement one or two HU Followup operations,
based on pre‐2018 E2E test research. (Do we need one after listing and
another after the census is completed?)
1. How to automate and ensure appropriate
implementation using the ECaSE
application for CM Initial or Final Housing
Unit Followup, and ensure appropriate
implementation?
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Operations ‐‐ Goals, Scope, Constraints and Issues
Goals
Scope
Constraints/Issues
Evaluations and Experiments (Maryann Chapin and Randall Neugebauer)
Out of Scope
Document History
Version Date
Changes
1.0
June 1, 2016
Baseline to support Project Baseline Review (PBR)
2.0
August 26, 2016
2.1
2.2
October 4, 2016
October 14, 2016
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Updated for change in test name to 2018 End‐to‐End Census Test.
Replaced older system names with to‐be system names based on Pega platform decision.
Removed references to CARAT based on Decision Memo 2016.13.i.
Updated references to C‐SHaRPS scope for consistency with final Request For Proposal.
Updated to make Archiving operation in scope.
Updated for consistency with current OII Vision document and with Business Process Models, and generally for currency and accuracy.
Removed risks, questions and notes temporarily placed in Constraint / Issues column.
Update program managers and points of contact for operations to reflect recent staffing changes
Update High‐level Timeline. Now in sync with IMS rebaseline of September 29, 2016.
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