Estimating the number of homeless people living in Hungary between 1999 and 2011

Gergely Daróczi

doi:10.1177/0759106314531896

Estimating the number of homeless people living in Hungary between 1999 and 2011

Gergely Daróczi

Corvinus University of Budapest

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The high variability in the estimates of the number of homeless people living in Hungary suggested a review of recent methods and possible data sources. After verifying the models fitted by Da´vid and Snijders (2002), those and various other models were applied to a wider range of data compiled between 1999 and 2011 in Hungary, thus estimating the number of homeless people over the last decade. The limitations of the models were obvious: more frequent and extended data collection would be favourable to produce reliable estimates, and a robust design (mixture of closed and open population model) could be used to fine-tune the results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	56-67
Number of pages	12
Journal	BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique
Volume	123
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106314531896
State	Published - 1 Dec 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Capture-recapture
Hidden population
Homelessness
Log-linear models

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