Abstract
Ruth B. McKay (1992) "Cultural Factors
Affecting Within Household Coverage and Proxy Reporting In
Hispanic (Salvadoran) Households. A Pilot Study," Proceedings
of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical
Association, 614-618.
The results of an ethnographic field study of Salvadoran
and non-Hispanic White households in suburban Maryland
suggested a possible cause of Hispanic male undercount in
household surveys. Both female-headed and two-parent
Salvadoran households frequently included one or more
boarders, and twice as many of the boarders were males. The
boarders slept on living-room couches, left early in the
morning and returned late in the evening, and were peripheral
to the life and organization of the household. Respondents
tended not to report the boarders as members of the
household. This paper describes the effects of the boarders'
peripheral status on within-household under coverage and
proxy reporting of employment characteristics in surveys of
Salvadoran households.
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