title: Looking behind the numbers in counting the homeless: an invited commentary.
abstract: Many of criticisms of the Census Bureau's S-Night count of the homeless advanced by Wright and Devine are appropriate. However, a more important issue--the lack of agreement in the field on an appropriate conceptual definition of homelessness--undermines their overall critique.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015982:Bias; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008145:Louisiana / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D011638:Public Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*