The goal of the General Population Telephone Survey was to locate the "hidden homeless" of Los Angeles County. They are individuals who currently have a place where they can stay temporarily and are not in easily accessed locations. To find this population, a general population telephone survey of 1,000 randomly selected households throughout Los Angeles County was implemented in an effort to discover homeless persons who would not have been identified through the Street or Shelter and Institution Counts. These people were classified as unsheltered due to the fact that they do not utilize emergency shelter or transitional housing facilities for their nighttime accommodations. There were three criterias set forth in the telephone survey to meet the definition of hidden homeless: (1) location on property, (2) time on property, and (3) contributions to head of household.