Estimating the size of the homeless population in Budapest, Hungary

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 291-303

  Dávid, Beáta ^a   Snijders, Tom A ^b  

^a Institute for Sociology Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Hidden population; Homeless; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141678931     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016080606287     Document Type: Article

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