Current Population Reports: Special studies. Series P-23, Issues 57-67

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U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975
 

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Page 2 - New England: Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts . Rhode Island Connecticut Middle Atlantic: New York New Jersey ... Pennsylvania East North Central: Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan ... Wisconsin West North Central: Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota . South Dakota Nebraska Kansas South Atlantic: Delaware Maryland...
Page iv - Columbia Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida East South Central Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Mississippi West South Central Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas Mountain Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah Nevada Pacific Washington Oregon California Alaska...
Page 60 - B are approximations to the standard errors of various estimates shown in this report. In order to derive standard errors that would be applicable to a wide variety of items and could be prepared at a moderate cost, a number of approximations were required. As a result, the...
Page 68 - Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples...
Page 46 - CPS estimates are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained if a complete census had been taken using the same questionnaires, instructions, and enumerators.
Page iv - NEW ENGLAND Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut .. MIDDLE ATLANTIC New York New Jersey Pennsylvania EAST NORTH CENTRAL Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin WEST NORTH CENTRAL Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas...
Page 63 - Of this number, 2, 250 occupied units, on the average, are visited but interviews are not obtained because the occupants are not found at home after repeated calls or are unavailable for some other reason.
Page 59 - The reliability of an estimated percentage, computed by using sample data for both numerator and denominator, depends upon both the size of the percentage and the size of the total upon which the size of the percentage is based.
Page 111 - The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples would differ from each other.

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