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Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty Interim Report 1, Evaluation of 1993 County Estimates for Title I Allocations (1997) / Chapter Skim
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... , food stamp program records, income tax return records, and county population estimates. The panel has assessed the Census Bureau's work in order to fulfill its mandate to advise the Secretaries of Commerce and Education on the advisability of using those estimates for the Title I allocations to counties for the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 school years.
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... Therefore, the panel's recommendation uses estimates of the number of children aged 5-17 in families in poverty in each county from both the Census Bureau model and the 1990 census data. The panel recommends to the Secretaries of Commerce and Education that funds under Title I for fiscal 1997 be allocated on the basis of estimates that are obtained by averaging two poverty rates and then applying the average rate to the 1994 population estimate.
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... For the future, the panel encourages the Census Bureau to continue the research it has begun. The need to produce estimates in time for the fiscal 1997 allocations limited the Census Bureau's ability to thoroughly evaluate its modelbased estimates, compare its model with alternative ones, and further investigate other approaches to developing updated estimates of poverty for small areas.
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