Did the Census Bureau interview people staying in emergency shelters, motels, or hotels?
No. In the CPS, interviews are not conducted with persons residing in hotels, emergency shelters, places of worship, or other nonresidential units that are out of the scope of the survey. CPS ESTIMATION PROCEDURES • How were missed individuals, destroyed or unreachable sample houses, and interstate moves accounted for in the calculation of the estimates? In accordance with standard procedures, uninhabitable households, and those for which the condition was unknown, were taken out of the CPS sample universe. Persons in households that were successfully interviewed were given a higher weight to account for those missed. Thus, the employment status of interviewed persons (primarily persons in the same State) represents the employment status of those who were not interviewed. To the degree that interviewed persons had a different employment status than those who were not interviewed, some inaccuracy is present in the data. For example, if persons who were interviewed were more likely to be
