Estimating the Number of Homeless People Living in Hungary between 1999 and 2011. Issue 123 (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Daróczi, Gergely
• Is Part Of: Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique. Issue 123(2014:Jul.)
• Page Start: 56
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: Sans-abri -- Population cachée -- Capture-recapture -- Modèles log-linéaire; Homelessness -- Hidden Population -- Capture-recapture -- Log-linear Models; Sociology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 301.01
• DOI: 10.1177/0759106314531896
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0759-1063

Abstract

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 Dávid 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.