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Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount in New York City's Chinatown
Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount in New York City's Chinatown
EV91-06
Introduction
The basic purpose of the alternative enumeration studies was to ascertain the causes of undercount in hard-to-enumerate populations. Chinese Americans fall within this category especially when they reside in a predominantly ethnic enclave like New York’s Chinatown. In a neighborhood like this, the people are insulated and isolated from the mainstream, and most residents do not speak English. The Census Bureau surmised correctly that a sample Chinese American community should be targeted for an undercount study.
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