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ABSTRACT:
Over the past two decades, a variety of methods have been used to count the homeless in large metropolitan areas. In this paper, we report on a recent effort to count the homeless in Los Angeles County, one that employed the sampling of census tracts. A number of compli- cations are discussed, including the need to impute homeless counts to areas ofthe Countynot sampled. We conclude that, despite their im- perfections, estimated counts provided useful and credible information to the stakeholders involved.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Richard Berk, Brian Kriegler, and Donald Ylvisaker, "Counting the Homeless in Los Angeles County" (October 27, 2005). Department of Statistics, UCLA. Department of Statistics Papers. Paper 2005102702.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/papers/2005102702