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Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 699–724.
Published: 20 April 2011
...George B. Ploubidis; Emily Grundy Abstract Our primary aim is to develop and validate a population health metric for survey-based health assessment that combines information from both self-reported and observer-measured health indicators. A secondary objective is to use this index to examine gender...
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Quality, accessibility, and contraceptive use in rural tanzania
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
... for developing effective and efficientfamily planning programs. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Family Planning Travel Time Family Planning Service Family Plan Informant Report References Adeokun , L.A. ( 1994 ). Service Quality and Family Planning...
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The role of sampling in population censuses: Its effect on timeliness and accuracy
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 362–373.
Published: 01 March 1968
... it appears probable that 5 years had already elapsed. This paper discusses some aspects of the need for timeliness in the publication of the results, investigates the effect of long delays on our understanding of changes that are occurring, describes methods of speeding up the preparation of reports...
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Estimation of the Birth Rate for the Congo Through Nonconventional Techniques
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 688–709.
Published: 01 June 1967
... died. The task was to make the best possible use of various reliable pieces of information directly or indirectly related to fertility, in order to produce some reasonably acceptable estimate of birth rate. One procedure consisted of correcting the reported birth rate for the omission of infant deaths...
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The Relationship History Calendar: Improving the Scope and Quality of Data on Youth Sexual Behavior
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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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The Use of Own-Child Checks to Determine Remarriage Status
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 609–617.
Published: 01 November 1991
...” that several researchers have used with the 1900 census to substitute for direct information on remarriage. Accurate information on remarriage status is important for fertility and mortality estimation methods that rely on marital duration. The checks detect fewer than two-thirds of wives who report...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 785–810.
Published: 01 June 2021
...-linked reporting differences. Demographers should consider how the meaning of U.S. race data may be changing as more Americans are exposed to information from GATs. Relatively little is known about who is more or less likely to participate in genetic ancestry testing. People who engage in any form...
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African-American marriage in 1910: Beneath the surface of census data
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Samuel H. Preston; Suet Lim; S. Philip Morgan Abstract This paper examines the quality of information about marital status, marital duration, and marriage order among African-American women in the U.S. Census of 1910. It compares the reported prevalence of widowhood to estimates of widowhood based...
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The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, and Condom Use With Spouses
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 259–280.
Published: 13 January 2015
... of this study are a small sample size for those who are HIV-positive and dependence on self-reported sexual behaviors. 17 12 2014 13 1 2015 © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Divorce Sexual behavior Malawi HIV testing and counseling (HTC) Information and health...
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Reporting Errors in Siblings’ Survival Histories and Their Impact on Adult Mortality Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
... Senegal DHS instrument. 11 It provides test data on lists of maternal siblings as well as the vital status, ages, and dates of death of these siblings. It also provides information on respondent characteristics used in multivariate analyses of reporting errors. These include a dummy variable indicating...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Reporting</span> Errors in Siblings’ Survival Histories and Their Impact on Adult Mortality Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal
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The Use of the Multiplicity Survey to Identify Migrants
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Demography (1981) 18 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 February 1981
... into the availability of specified cat- egories of relatives to report on migration and the reliability of such reports. Special attention was therefore given to the ways in which the use of different kin networks as a source of information affects the rela- tives' awareness of moves and the quality of data collected...
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Underreporting of abortion in surveys of U.S. women: 1976 to 1988
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Elise F. Jones; Jacqueline Darroch Forrest Abstract Although research on reproductive behavior depends heavily on information from surveys, abortions are characteristically underreported in such data. Estimates of the level of reporting are made for each of the recent major surveys of U.S. women...
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Measurement and evaluation of national family planning programs
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 1967
... of program costs in small countries (say, under 30 million) and under 5 per- cent in large countries. The administrator has many sources of information on the progress of his pro- gram. The central sources of information should be frequent and systematic reports on the number of families given supplies...
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Published: 03 December 2019
network shows greater evidence of heaping on multiples of 5 and 10 than the meal network. These findings are consistent with a hypothesized trade-off between the quality and the quantity of information reported in personal networks. Responses higher than 30 are coded as 30 in these plots.
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A Note on The Accuracy of Male Responses to Questions on Fertility
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 846–849.
Published: 01 June 1967
... information can be obtained from Latin A merican women. The question remains, however, whether such information can be obtained from males. This paper presents evidence on the accuracy of reports of the number of live births collected in a survey of 1,640 male residents of the Monterrey, Mexico metropolitan...
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Forensic demography and civil rights
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., such as census reports and other research findings. These could give a hurried impression of the situation but could not deal directly with the issue of the whereabouts of parents not living with their children, since such a question had not been asked in the 1960 Census. An additional bit of information...
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Including Group Quarters Residents With Household Residents Can Change What We Know About Working-Age People With Disabilities
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 267–289.
Published: 23 November 2011
... show that (1) of those with disabilities, about 1 in 13 males and 1 in 33 females live in GQ; (2) GQ rates are higher for individuals reporting mental, self-care, or go-outside-the-home disabilities than for those reporting sensory, physical, or employment disabilities; (3) younger males...
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A Survey Experiment of Women’s Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 333–357.
Published: 06 September 2012
...Kathryn M. Yount; Nafisa Halim; Sidney Ruth Schuler; Sara Head Abstract According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in poorer countries, 50 % of women of reproductive age report that wife hitting or beating is justified. Such high rates may result from structural pressures to adopt...
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Home Front: Post-Deployment Mental Health and Divorces
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 895–916.
Published: 30 April 2014
... to the probability of divorce among married active-duty U.S. Army soldiers. For this purpose, we combine Army administrative individual-level longitudinal data on soldiers’ deployments, marital history, and sociodemographic characteristics with their self-reported post-deployment health information. Our estimates...
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Factors associated with religious and civil marriages
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 February 1972
... certificate. This current study of category of ceremony data, as reported on marriage certificates, indi- cates that this item can, for some purposes, fairly adequately serve as a substitute source of data for specific religious information. Data for Maryland residents, showing that persons involved in Jewish...
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