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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 22.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2011 Oct 15;41(2):464–476. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.09.012

Table 1b.

Percent Child-Level Crowding, Census, LAFANS, and PSID-CDS

Crowding
(Persons/Room)		 1990 Census
LA County		 2000 Census
LA County		 LAFANS 2000
(N=2,500)		 2000 Census
United States		 PSID-CDS
1997 2001
1.0 or less 53.90% 47.70% 44.80% 81.60% 77.0% 81.1%
1.01 – 1.50 16.3 16.2 21.9 10.1 13.9 10.8
1.51 or more 29.8 36.1 33.3 8.3 9.2 8.1

Note: We present the Census estimates from the 5% sample of persons per room at the child level. For the purposes of this comparison, we group LAFANS data on rooms at nine or more, and assign that group the mean rooms.