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- Title
ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF JEWS IN THE SERVICE AREA OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: LESSONS FOR ALL JEWISH COMMUNITIES.
- Authors
Sheskin, Ira M.
- Abstract
This article presents information on American Jews. It is informed that more than 50 American Jewish communities have commissioned demographic studies since 1975, representing more than 75 percent of American Jews. While such studies produce a wealth of data on demographic, geographic, and religious dimensions as well as profiles of organizational and philanthropic behavior, the most sought after and most published result is the estimate of the Jewish population in the service area of the Federation commissioning the study. A variety of methods have been used to derive estimate of the Jewish population of particular cities. These include procedures involving absences from public school on major Jewish holidays, death rate methods, methods using distinctive Jewish names, questionnaires, random digit dialing survey and various other methodologies. The Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County demographic study employed a "standard" methodology which has been used by many Jewish demographic studies for estimating the size of an area's Jewish population. However, as this methodology failed to produce results consistent with two additional measures of the Jewish population size, it had to be modified significantly. A procedure employing distinctive Jewish names was utilized, supplemented by a knowledge of the Jewish geography of the county gained during the conduct of the study.
- Subjects
PALM Beach County (Fla.); FLORIDA; UNITED States; AMERICAN Jews; DEMOGRAPHY; RANDOM digit dialing telephone surveys; POPULATION geography
- Publication
Contemporary Jewry, 1989, Vol 10, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
0147-1694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02965568