How Census Tract Data Are Used to Assist Los Angeles Unified School District to Forecast Students.

Mueller, Milan; Rackerby, Deborah

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Publication Date: 1989

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How Census Tract Data Are Used to Assist Los Angeles Unified School District to Forecast Students.

Mueller, Milan; Rackerby, Deborah

Educational Planning, v7 n3 p24-31 Win 1989

The Los Angeles Unified School District contracted with GeoBased Systems to produce an enrollment projection model based on a set of assumptions regarding fertility, mortality, and migration for each of four ethnic groups. This article discusses the data, methodology, and results used by individual schools to project student numbers. (MLH)

Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Databases, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Projections, Migration Patterns, Models, Mortality Rate, Population Growth, School Demography

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles)

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