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The next set of papers analyze the ethnographic sample. This data set compiles results of the match and resolution of independent alternative enumerations collected at 29 sites to the 1990 Decennial Census information keyed from census forms. Sites were in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. This was our final sample design:
SEE FIGURE II SAMPLE DESIGN
WITH % RACE/ETHNIC
The method of conducting and matching Alternative Enumerations to the census and resolving the Census Day status of all persons and housing units enumerated in either source is described in other papers. This sample was purposefully selected to find places where we could study behavioral correlates of undercount.
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