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The Ethnographic Evaluation of the 1990 Decennial Census Reports (EV) discuss behavioral causes and correlates of undercount in the decennial census among Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, recent immigrants from Asia, and undocumented immigrants primarily from Latin America and Haiti.

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Racial/Ethnic Homogeneity of Neighborhoods

January 01, 1993

Contributors to Census omission rates include both individual and environmental factors which are associated with high rates of poverty.
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Alternative Enumeration of Undocumented Salvadorans on Long Island

January 01, 1993

The area selected for an Alternate Enumeration (AE) of undocumented Salvadoran immigrants is located in a bedroom community on the North Shore of Long Island.
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The Myth of the Man Under the Bed

January 01, 1993

This paper summarizes patterns of omissions and erroneous enumerations in the census coverage resulting from two mechanisms of coverage error.
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"Undercount of Black Inner City Residents of New Orleans, Louisiana"

January 01, 1993

The primary purpose of this report is to identify and explain census errors in terms of our hypotheses of the causes of undercount.
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A Multivariate Analysis of the Census Omission

January 01, 1993

Until very recently, relatively little information was available concerning the differential undercount of minority groups, especially Hispanics.