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Ethnographic Evaluation of the 1990 Decennial Census Reports (EV) Working Papers

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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Undercounting Among Certain Rural Creek Indians of Oklahoma
Rural roads rutted by sheet floods, booby-trapped fields, and foot paths to homesteads were among the physical obstacles to finding houses and people.


Working Paper
Alternative Enumeration of Haitians in Miami, Florida
This report is the ethnographic coverage evaluation report accompanying the “resolution” of differences between the census and Alternative Enumeration.


Working Paper
Behavioral Causes of Census Undercount of Undocumented Immigrants
This is the final report on the behavioral causes of census undercount of undocumented Latino immigrants in a heterogeneous urban neighborhood.


Working Paper
Behavioral Causes of Undercount in a Black Ghetto of Flint, Michigan
The City of Flint, Michigan, the location of the Alternative Enumeration (AE), experienced a demographic shift from the 1970’s through the 1980’s.


Working Paper
Coverage Differences in a Mixed Neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, the fourth poorest city in the country, is the capital of Connecticut, one of the wealthiest states in the country.


Working Paper
Bicentennial Census of a Mixed Neighborhood in Carbondale, Illinois
This site experienced the highest residential mobility of any where an Alternative Enumeration (AE) was conducted.


Working Paper
Behavioral Causes of Undercount in the Community of Sherman Heights
This study is part of a larger research effort sponsored by the Census to help understand the forces which play a role in the differential census undercount.


Working Paper
Hispanics in a Racially and Ethnically Mixed Neighborhood
This is the final report on a study of causes of census undercount of Hispanics in a racially and ethnically mixed neighborhood.


Working Paper
Census Undercount, Underground Economy and Undocumented Migration
Many people conceal personal information from strangers because the latter might use that knowledge to harm them.


Working Paper
Asian Americans in a Mixed Neighborhood: A Longitudinal Study
Our goals are to relate specific cases and rates of census undercounts and coverage issues in a sample area to sociocultural causes of census error.


Working Paper
Coverage Differences in the Census of a Rural Minority Population
Self identification of race was reported in a community recognized as an Indian tribe by the state of North Carolina but not by the Federal government.


Working Paper
Alternative Enumeration among Korean Americans in Queens, New York
The first wave of Korean immigrants to the U.S. took place between 1903-1905.


Working Paper
Behavioral Causes of Undercount - Woodburn, Oregon
This coverage report presents the findings of an Alternative Enumeration (AE) conducted in Woodburn, Oregon, for the U.S. Census Bureau.


Working Paper
An Ethnographic Analysis of Factors Leading to Census Undercount
This is the final report on the research done for the Joint Statistical Agreement between the Census Bureau and the United Cambodian Community.


Working Paper
Immigrant & Migrant, Documented & Undocumented Farm Workers in CA
This coverage report is on an Alternative Enumeration (AE) carried-out for the Ethnographic Evaluation of the Behavioral Causes of Undercount Study.


Working Paper
Concentrated Urban Haitians - Documented/Undocumented
The ethnographic sample area of urban Haitian refugees is in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Broward County, State of Florida.


Working Paper
An Alternative Enumeration of a Heterogeneous Population
In this ethnographic profile we discuss some sociocultural factors that we regard as relevant to the outcome of censusing at our site.


Working Paper
Census Ethnographic Research Project: Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico
Census coverage and enumeration strategies in the rural American Indian reservation community of Isleta are discussed in this Ethnographic Evaluation.

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