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标题：Can We Measure Homelessness? A Critical Evaluation of ‘Capture-Recapture’
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作者：Malcolm Williams
期刊名称：Methodological Innovations
印刷版ISSN：2059-7991
电子版ISSN：2059-7991
出版年度：2010
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：1-11
DOI：10.4256/mio.2010.0018
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：Homeless people constitute a rare and elusive population, but additionally counting the numbers homeless is made more difficult as a result of the absence of agreed definitions, across time and place, of what constitutes homelessness. This paper reviews some of the methods of counting used and critically evaluates one particular method, that of ‘capture-recapture’. Projects undertaken by the author and his colleagues, in the UK, are used as illustrations of the possibilities and limitations of the method.
关键词：Homelessness ; rare and elusive populations ; capture-recapture