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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1215–1219.
Published: 28 April 2017
... about trends in lifespan variation. Based on new results presented in this reply, I maintain that the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), in spite of its known limitations, remains the single most comprehensive data source for studying trends in lifespan variation by education. As for trends...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1203–1213.
Published: 10 April 2017
... high-quality data and account for the effects of changing educational composition. The author is supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging (T32 AG000177 and AG000139) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32 HD007242). Jessica Ho, Scott Lynch...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 101–124.
Published: 28 December 2011
... these concerns, this study evaluates the quality of men’s fertility data in the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) and in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Comparing fertility rates in each survey with population rates based on data from Vital...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Sarah R. Hayford; S. Philip Morgan Abstract We assess the quality of retrospective data on cohabitation by comparing data collected in four major U.S. family surveys: the National Survey of Families and Households and three rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth. We use event-history...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 321–347.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of neonatal mortality. The proposed model is based on the Under-5 Mortality Database, a newly compiled database for under-5 mortality by detailed age drawn from high-quality vital registration (VR) data. In its original version, this database contains 1,741 annual distributions of under-5 deaths...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 1968
... trabajo describe algunos de los principales errores que complican los datos para la poblaci6n no negra, e intenta medir el impacto que eetos erroree tienen en diversa8 tasas demográficas. Summary Demographic data for nonwhites in the United States are often assumed to be of low quality. Problems arise...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1151–1176.
Published: 06 July 2011
... and improve the quality of reporting; however, these methods often limit the complexity of information collected. We designed a life history calendar—the Relationship History Calendar (RHC)—to increase the scope of data collected on sexual relationships and behavior while enhancing their quality. The RHC...
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Published: 14 March 2018
Fig. 1 Fertility rate and democracy in Indonesia. Data are from Quality of Government Database ( https://qog.pol.gu.se/ ) and UN Population Division ( http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/ )
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1535–1554.
Published: 19 August 2016
... of association between uncertainty in estimates and economic, demographic, and geographic factors, controlling for the number of responses. We find that these demographic and geographic patterns in estimate quality persist even after we account for the number of responses. Our results indicate that data quality...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 February 2021
...., gender-based violence and sexual health). Data quality of responses to sensitive questions could be improved with more attention to interviewers—their recruitment, training, and characteristics. Future analyses will need to account for the role of interviewer to more fully understand possible data biases...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 307–314.
Published: 01 May 1988
..., and those of Malay ethnicity are found to give less reliable data. In a logistic regression analysis, these respondent characteristics are more important determinants of data quality than the length of the recall period. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1988 1988 Rural...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1195–1218.
Published: 17 June 2019
...Wendy D. Manning; Kara Joyner; Paul Hemez; Cassandra Cupka Abstract Cohabitation is one of the fastest growing family forms in the United States. It is widespread and continues to increase but has not been consistently measured across surveys. It is important to track the quality of data...
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Norman L. Weatherby; Charles B. Nam; Larry W. Isaac Abstract We examine mortality at ages 50 and above in female populations of 38 countries and control for variation in quality of the mortality data. We find that economic development, economic distributional inequality, and basic primary health...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2025–2044.
Published: 02 November 2018
... this challenge by using principled model selection techniques to empirically evaluate theoretical mortality models. I test nine models of old-age death rates by fitting them to 360 high-quality data sets on cohort mortality after age 80. Models that allow for the possibility of decelerating death rates tend...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1525–1546.
Published: 01 August 2021
... enables a formal derivation of statistical estimators for sibling survival data. Our derivation clarifies the precise conditions that sibling history estimates rely on, leads to internal consistency checks that can help assess data and reporting quality, and reveals important quantities that could...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
... errors but not age and date errors. Overall, SSH data led to a 20 % underestimate of 45 q 15 relative to HDSS data. Our study suggests new quality improvement strategies for SSH data and demonstrates the potential use of HDSS data for the validation of “unconventional” demographic techniques. 27 11...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1119–1145.
Published: 14 May 2018
... sample size. We first confirm the quality and representativeness of the MCAS data by comparing them with well-known household surveys in Mexico and the United States, finding strong agreement on the migrant location distributions available across data sets. We then document substantial differences...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 127–138.
Published: 01 February 2000
... was admitted. Results indicate that the procedures followed for locating, interviewing, and reinterviewing respondents yielded representative samples of new legal immigrants and high-quality data. On the basis of data obtained from the first round of the survey, we present new information never before...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1363–1388.
Published: 05 July 2018
... distributions for death coverage can include any available empirical information related to local data quality. In principle, prior information could include expert opinion, demographic estimates, or both. In our specific application to Brazilian data, prior information on age- and sex-specific vital...
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in Leaders and Laggards in Life Expectancy Among European Scholars From the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
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Published: 01 February 2021
(column 2 in Table 1 ). Only in quality group 1 or 2 further limits the sample to scholars with data from quality groups 1 (almost complete data) and 2 (partially complete data). Finally, Only in quality group 1 or 2 with known birth or death year excludes all observations with the year of birth
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