The quality of demographic data for nonwhites
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Demography
- Vol. 5 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03208556
Abstract
Resumen A menudo se supone que los datos demograficos para la población no blanca en Estados Unidos son de baja calidad. Los problemas se originan en la subenumeración y el subregistro y porque los individuos incluídos en el censo no siempre proporcionan una informacibn exacta. Este trabajo describe algunos de los principales errores que complican los datos para la poblaci6n no negra, e intenta medir el impacto que eetos erroree tienen en diversa8 tasas demográficas.Keywords
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