Sentence examples for elusive population from inspiring English sources

The report is based on census data from March 2009, the most recent census sample that is detailed enough for Pew demographers to estimate the statistically elusive population of illegal immigrants.

Banks also get a chance to build relations with this elusive population, hoping to graduate them to a higher level of service.

Albanian immigrants in Greece comprise one such highly mobile, elusive population.

These methods are thus inapplicable to the majority of marine animal species (from invertebrates to pelagic fishes) that have medium to large population sizes, elusive population contours and for which only a minute fraction of the individuals can be sampled for genetic studies.

Capture-recapture (CRC) methods are widely used in epidemiology to adjust for incomplete ascertainment by disease registries and to estimate the size of elusive populations (1– 4).

But counting the transient and elusive homeless population has been difficult.

Big businesses have a problem marketing towards the elusive Latino population because they try to lump people with different cultures, traditions and dialects together.

The methods should be cost-efficient and fast, but in the first place they need to be reliable, and able to deal with rare (or rarely sampled) meiofaunal species elusive to population genetics.

The challenges of accurately and precisely enumerating chimpanzee populations are similar to those posed by surveys of other rare and elusive mammal populations, including bears [ 31], gorillas [ 32– 34], African elephants [ 35], Eurasian otters [ 36], and giant pandas [ 37].

Before this elusive mammal's population declined they were recorded in many coastal areas of Britain; now that their populations are on the increase, they are once again beginning to exploit this rich habitat.

Despite this widespread use of photoperiod, the genes involved in the switch mechanism itself remain elusive in natural populations.