Ethnographic Follow-up of a Predominantly African American Population in a Sample Area in Central Harlem, New York City: Behavioral Causes of the Undercount of the 1990 Census
Ethnographic Follow-up of a Predominantly African American Population in a Sample Area in Central Harlem, New York City: Behavioral Causes of the Undercount of the 1990 Census
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Introduction
The 1990 Decennial Census of the south side of one block in Central Harlem in this predominantly African-American, low-income community in New York City, reported 80 housing units and 72 New Yorkers. My Alternative Enumeration (AE) of the same side of the block (the sample area) identified 132 housing units and 143 individuals. The undercount was therefore about 50 per cent.
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