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the distribution of the county ' s population between farm households and nonfarm households . ) <br /> For services benefiting both households and commercial establishments ( such as Emergency <br /> Management activities and many General Government functions ) , we allocated expenditures <br /> based on the proportion of total property value accounted for by each land use category . <br /> Finally , early on in the research a question arose as to the appropriate treatment of <br /> expenditures related to Chatham County ' s rapidly increasing Latino population . According to <br /> Census Bureau estimates - which almost surely understate the true numbers — the proportion of <br /> county population made up by Latinos grew from 1 . 5 % in 1990 to 2 . 6 % in 1997 . Additionally , <br /> as of December 1998 , Latino children accounted for 8 . 76 % of public school students . Amon ] <br /> county residents , the dramatic growth in the Latino population is commonly linked to certain <br /> industries within the county — particularly the poultry processing plants in Siler City. This <br /> amounts to an argument that expenditures directly attributable to this segment of the population — <br /> specifically public health services and public school expenses — should be allocated to the <br /> commercial industrial sector. On the other hand; one could argue that many residents of <br /> Chatham County ( of all ethnic groups ) have moved there because of work opportunities , that <br /> singling out Latinos is both arbitrary and inappropriate , and that expenditures related to this sub - <br /> population should be allocated to the residential sector. <br /> It was decided to conduct parallel analyses , one allocating Latino -related expenditures to the <br /> commercial/industrial sector, and the other allocating them to the residential sector. This <br /> essentially places upper and lower bounds on the computed revenue/expenditure ratios for the <br /> residential and commerciaUindustrial sectors . <br /> ' An important exception to this was in the allocation of public schools expenditures . Based on <br /> information supplied by the Superintendent of Schools and the County Health Director, it was assumed <br /> that 1 % of all students were from farm households and 99 % were from nonfarm households . <br /> 4 <br />