Decennial Census Content Reinterview Survey

The 2010 Content Reinterview Survey is an evaluation of the reliability of the census data items collected in the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau has conducted a Content Reinterview Survey for every census since 1950. The purpose of a Content Reinterview Survey is to evaluate the consistency of responses to the census questionnaire, covering self-response and enumerator-response. Assessing response error to questionnaire items aids both census planners and data users. Measuring response error for specific items helps census planers improve the quality of the items through additional testing.