Counting Chicago's Homeless
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Review
- Vol. 16 (4) , 365-375
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x9201600402
Abstract
In Chicago, 60 independent observers were hired to assess how well Census Bureau enumerators implemented procedures for the homeless count (S-Night) in one district office area (DOA). Within this DOA, they observed 29 of the 87 predesignated nighttime street enumeration sites. Observers saw enumerators in only one third of these sites. Those observers who saw enumerators reported that enumerators failed to follow procedure. As a result, observer estimates of the number of homeless persons at their site were substantially higher than enumerator estimates. Qualitative interviews with 18 homeless persons on the day following the count revealed that only five of 18 believed they had been countedKeywords
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