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Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty Interim Report 2, Evaluation of Revised 1993 County Estimates for Title I Allocations (1998) / Chapter Skim
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... , income tax return records, food stamp program records, and county population estimates. The data sources used in the model are generally available only 1-2 years after the period to which they refer.
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... In April 1997 the Department of Education allocated Title I funds for the 1997-1998 school year on the basis of the panel's recommended averaging procedure. The department subsequently requested that the panel and the Census Bureau carry out an in-depth evaluation of the Census Bureau's model and reasonable alternative models.
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... Hence, the panel recommends that the Census Bureau continue research and development for further improving model-based county estimates of poor school-age children. At the same time, the Bureau is required by law to develop updated estimates for school districts: this is a challenging task, given such factors as the small size of many school districts, the different ways in which districts are defined, changes in district boundaries over time, and the scarcity of relevant data for estimation.
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