Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty Interim Report 1, Evaluation of 1993 County Estimates for Title I Allocations (1997) / Chapter Skim
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F. SPECIAL CASE: ESTIMATES FOR PUERTO RICO
F. SPECIAL CASE: ESTIMATES FOR PUERTO RICO
Pages 80-81
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The only data source that appears to be available for updating estimates of poor school-age children in Puerto Rico is an experimental March 1995 income survey modeled after the CPS March Income Supplement.i The Census Bureau iThe survey was repeated in March 1997, and it is planned to repeat it at 2-year intervals.
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The sample size of about 3,200 households should be large enough to provide a direct estimate of the number of poor school-age children with adequate precision. However, only limited information is available about other key aspects of data quality, including response rates for households to the income questions and the editing or imputation procedures used.2 The approach adopted by the Census Bureau for producing updated estimates of poor school-age children in Puerto Rico seems appropriate, given the data available.
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