Abstract
The U. S. Bureau of the Census produces population estimates for the nation, states, counties, and places (cities, towns, and townships) as part of its program to quantify changes in population size and distribution since the last census. These estimates provide updates to the population counts by demographic and geographic characteristics from the last census. They also indicate the pace of population change since the last census and the relative influence of the components of population change. While the national estimates can be produced by a careful accounting system that adds annual births, deaths, and international migration to the previous year’s population, subnational estimates require development of methods for dealing with the largely unmeasured component effects of internal migration. Many of these methods represent the type of small domain estimates that constitute the subject of this report.
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Long, J.F. (1996). Postcensal Population Estimates: States, Counties, and Places. In: Schaible, W.L. (eds) Indirect Estimators in U.S. Federal Programs. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 108. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0721-4_4
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