Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation
Specialty Expressions: assignment area
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Assignment area (AA) | Business | A small geographic area, usually a block or group of blocks, established by the Census Bureau as a basic unit for data collection by a single enumerator, lister, or other field staff. AAs may be combined into field assignments for some operations. Formerly called an address register area (1990 census) and an enumeration district (earlier censuses). See assignment area map, collection geography, field assignment. (references) | |
| Assignment area locator map (AAlocatormap) | Business | See locator map. (references) | |
| Assignment area map (AAmap) | Business | A map that shows the area assigned to a member of the field staff for a specific census operation. The map displays the individual roads, streets, and nonstreet features (and their names, if any); selected legal boundaries; and, if appropriate, the city-style address ranges of the roads and streets and the census collection block numbers within and adjacent to the AA. See assignment area, block map, and locator map. (references) | |
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