Michael Thieme, Assistant Director for Decennial Census Programs discusses the back-office processing of census data “anomalies” and what that really means. The article, by Thieme’s admission, is meant to address the confusion surrounding the term and explain that anomalies are “a signal that the quality checks on the census are working.”
He gives a detailed and informative look at just what anomalies really are and how the Census Bureau addresses them, including the various categories of anomalies. Thieme also assures readers that “we have not found any anomalies that are impossible to fix.” Read the blog entry here.
