2010 Census Evaluation of Address Frame Accuracy and Quality

This report provides results from the 2010 Census Evaluation of Address Frame Accuracy and
Quality. The Decennial Statistical Studies Division conducted this evaluation as part of the 2010
Census Program for Evaluations and Experiments to evaluate the accuracy of the address frame
after the 2010 Census Address Canvassing operation and after completion of all 2010 Census
operations. Specifically, this evaluation used results from the 2010 Census Coverage
Measurement operation and a special supplemental field operation to estimate the number and
percent of housing units correctly added (and added-in-error) and correctly deleted (and deletedin-error) by census operations. In addition, this evaluation examined the universe of addresses
coded as “missing” from the census by the Census Coverage Measurement operation to
determine if the census included them as valid housing units, but incorrectly geocoded them to a
2010 Census collection block outside of the Census Coverage Measurement geographic search
area. This geocoding error analysis included a second supplemental field operation.