At 05:04 01/11/2007, you wrote:
>Sadly nothing seems have been learned by the Government from this
>experience. I asked the senior statisticians at a meeting last
>week what plans the ONS are making to try and count people who don't
>want to be counted. His reply was that he did not see making such
>estimates as belonging to the ONS.
I find that hard to believe; shome mishtake shurely? As an enumerator in 1991 and 2001, it was stressed in our training that we aimed for complete coverage; pointed out, eg, that each enumerator missing two people added up to over a quarter of a million for the country. My expectation is that Census design should be exactly to address questions of bias.
Allan
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