Small-area estimates of school-age children in poverty evaluation of current methodology (National Academy Press, 2000)
"This study was supported by Contract No. RN96131001 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education. Support of the work of the Committee on National Statistics is provided by a consortium of federal agencies through a grant from the National Science Foundation (Number SBR-9709489)"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-250)
Introduction and overview -- Title I allocation procedures -- Data sources for county estimates -- Estimation procedure for counties -- Alternative county models -- Evaluations of county estimates -- School district estimates -- Population estimates -- Research and development priorities -- Appendix A: Models for county and state poverty estimates -- Appendix B: Regression diagnostics on alternative county regression models -- Appendix C: County model comparisons with 1990 census estimates -- Appendix D: Use of school lunch data in New York state for the estimation of school-age children in poverty: an analysis / James H. Wyckoff and Frank Papa -- Appendix E: Special case: estimates for Puerto Rico