0 If a type of person or thing is under-represented in a group or organization, there are not enough of them in it:
Hispanics are under-represented in US political institutions.
As a result, adults living in households with other adults were relatively under-represented.
The controversy is over the practice of drawing district lines for the purpose of making sure that candidates from under-represented groups get elected.
In areas where minority ethnic groups are under-represented, it is possible that the views of a small but highly visible group can be easily identified.
Conversely, those less likely to enjoy privileged status, such as craftsmen, labourers and rural workers, were under-represented as litigants in the university courts.
Furthermore, these men, with their small workshops, were significantly under-represented in the electorate.
While some poor were selected from other areas, the lower socio-economic category of married men was under-represented in the sample.
This involves pre-processing the data set to seek out those classes that are under-represented or have small support values.
It can be expected that especially outbreaks in households, restaurants, day-care centres and schools were under-represented in the study, because of under-reporting [17].
