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Estimating the Jewish undercount in the 2001 Census: a comment on Graham and Waterman (2005) ‘Underenumeration of the Jewish Population in the UK 2001 Census’
Author(s):
Voas, David
Date:
2007
Topics:
Censuses, Demography, Statistics, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Abstract:
Graham and Waterman (2005) argued that there was a substantial underenumeration of Jews in the UK 2001 Census of Population. Their observations are valuable but some of the specific pieces of evidence and the recommendations that they offer can be criticised. There is an alternative method of estimating the extent to which Jews were undercounted in the census; it produces results that largely support their claims