ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with characteristic of inadequate housing designated as overcrowding. Overcrowding is frequently defined in two ways: as a minimum density function of persons per room, including all rooms in the house, minus bathrooms; or, as number of persons per sleeping room. Each household was rated by number of rooms short using the overcrowding index, the procedure as follows: number of rooms minus bathrooms and the age, sex, and relationship to the head of the household of every person living in the house were used as data. Of the 198 households scored by the overcrowding index, 23 had rooms short, a rate of 11.6 percent overcrowded. When the density function was calculated by number of persons per sleeping room, 58 percent of the households defined as overcrowded by the overcrowding index were also defined as overcrowded by the number of persons per sleeping room measure.
