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Estimating the Size of the Homeless Population in Budapest, Hungary

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In this study we try to estimate the size of the homeless population in Budapest by using two – non-standard – sampling methods: snowball sampling and capture-recapture method. Using two methods and three different data sets we are able to compare the methods as well as the results, and we also suggest some further applications. Apart from the practical purpose of our study there is a methodological one as well: to use two relatively unknown methods for the estimations of this very peculiar kind of population.

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  1. Research Institute for Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Beáta Dávid

  2. University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Tom A. B. Snijders

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Dávid, B., Snijders, T.A.B. Estimating the Size of the Homeless Population in Budapest, Hungary. Quality & Quantity 36, 291–303 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016080606287

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