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JSM 2002 Abstract #301902
Activity Number: 402
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 15, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics*
Abstract - #301902
Title: Statistics from Group Quarters Enumeration
Author(s): Kimball Jonas*+
Affiliation(s): U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 4700 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland, 20746, USA
Keywords: Group Quarters ; Special Places
Abstract:

While the vast majority of Americans live as families or individually in houses, apartments, mobile homes and the like, collectively known as "housing units," several million people in the United States live in group situations such as college dormitories, nursing homes, prisons, migrant worker dormitories, convents, and group homes, collectively known as "group quarters." Group quarters (GQs) are places where people live in group situations such as the above, as opposed to housing units; Special Places are the larger administrative units containing one or more GQs. This paper will provide statistical breakdowns from Census 2000 data useful to planning future GQ censuses, including size distributions of Special Places with respect to numbers of residents and numbers of GQs, counts of housing units at group quarters and at transient locations such as RV parks, counts of GQ residents enumerated through Special Places' administrative records, the differences between the GQ universe anticipated from the address list building operations and the GQ universe as enumerated, counts of GQ residents ultimately enumerated in housing units due to claiming a Usual Home Elsewhere, and other usef

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