Posted on 06/27/2019 9:39:03 AM PDT by fwdude
Each year, a representative sample of 3.5 million addresses nationwide is randomly selected to participate in the American Community Survey (ACS), which provides information on the economic, social, housing, and demographic characteristics of communities on a continuous basis.1 Data from the ACS influences how more than $675 billion in federal and state funds are spent each year. For the ACS to be a rich, valuable source of information for local communities, it must occasionally be revised to reflect our changing nation. A revised question can be clearer, easier to understand, and yield a higher response rate; revisions may also remove outdated and irrelevant phrasing in questions and instructions. For those who study trends, changes to survey questions—like the changes to the measurement of disability in the 2008 ACS—pose challenges if the revised questions result in estimates no longer being comparable across years.2
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The Relationships question includes new response categories to improve estimates of coupled households, specifically same-sex couples. For respondents who answer electronically, the survey also includes an automated relationship/sex consistency check to improve accuracy.
What's "comparable" over the years about sodomic relationships to normal ones?
My purpose in this posting is to point out how random and stupid it is to criticism the reason for a question being on the census, consider what complete bilge we’re asked in other situations.
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