Doug wrote,
> . . .who are not inmates of
> institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged)..
Slightly fuller defintion (BLS Handbook on Methods): "The institutional
population . . . consists of inmates of penal and mental institutions,
sanitariums, and homes for the aged, infirm, and needy."
If anyone is interested, the methodology book for the CPS would include more
detail about who these "infirm" and "needy" are. Maybe people in "half-way-
houses" or residental drug treatment programs are among those
considered "needy." I wonder if hospitals, of all various types, are included
as having the "infirm" in them.
Eric
