Book Chapter

Housing-Unit Method in Comparison: The Virginia Case

Tippett, Rebecca M.

Description

Book chapter written by Qian Cai and 2007 DPDF The Political Economy of Redistribution Fellow Rebecca Tippett, featured in Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography:

Population estimates are widely used in fund allocation, revenue sharing, planning, and budgeting at the federal, state, and local levels; as such, accuracy is crucial, and finding the most appropriate data and method to produce the accurate results is a constant goal for estimates professionals.

This chapter examines the viability of the housing unit method, typically used at the sub-county level, for county level estimates. Would this straightforward and easy-to-implement method generate more accurate estimates than the ratio-correlation method or administrative record method? The findings, while not surprising, provide empirical evidence through a thorough, careful, and clear case study.

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