The ethnographic sample area of urban Haitian refugees is in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Broward County, State of Florida. This is an area of mixed housing. It contains apartments in one and two-story cinderblock and stucco buildings, old wooden homes listing dangerously on their cinderblock footings, one multiunit compound fenced to suggest a camp, and several boarded-up buildings, one of which hosts constant drug deals and crack smokers. There are also four empty lots, jungled with untended overgrowth. Housing is scarred with signs of abuse: attempted entry and gunshot. Jalousies are missing panes or sport broken ones. Doors are studded with deadbolts. The overgrown lots are full of disintegrating furniture, tires, cans and garbage. Dumped appliances rot and rust in the swales. Huge dumpsters erupt with garbage and flies.

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Behavioral Causes of the Undercount of the 1990 Census

1991

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.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles Alternative Enumeration

December 1991

This site (A28) is in Koreatown Los Angeles and was chosen as representing an urban, Asian (Korean)-concentrated block.

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Alternative Enumeration of Haitians in Miami, Florida

March 1992

This report is the ethnographic coverage evaluation report accompanying the “resolution” of differences between the census and Alternative Enumeration.

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