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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
..., SSH estimates may be affected by reporting errors. These occur when SSH reported by survey respondents differ from the “true” survival experience of their maternal siblings. Demographers have generally equated reporting errors in SSH with omissions of deceased siblings by survey respondents (e.g...
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Published: 10 September 2020
Fig. 5 Effects of reporting errors on survey estimates of the neonatal mortality rate. We use the mathematical model described in section 1 of the online appendix along with data from England and Wales (described in section 2 of the online appendix ) to calculate the survey estimates More
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Published: 10 September 2020
Fig. 1 An example of reporting errors in full birth history data . DOB = date of birth. AAD = age at death. In this example, baby 1 and baby 2 were affected by date displacement. Baby 3 was affected by age overstatement, whereas baby 4 was an omission. More
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1345–1355.
Published: 25 June 2015
...Erin R. Hamilton; Robin Savinar Abstract We examine the nature and degree of two sources of error in data on migration from Mexico to the United States in Mexican household-based surveys: (1) sampling error that results when whole households migrate and no one is left behind to report...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 109–126.
Published: 01 February 2000
... in which reporting errors may affect the distribution of first births by time since marriage. The results of our investigation suggest that in three of the four counties, first-birth intervals are lengthened by underreporting of girl babies and by replacing them with second births reported as first births...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1705–1726.
Published: 10 September 2020
...Fig. 5 Effects of reporting errors on survey estimates of the neonatal mortality rate. We use the mathematical model described in section 1 of the online appendix along with data from England and Wales (described in section 2 of the online appendix ) to calculate the survey estimates...
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 303–312.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Prithwis Das Gupta Abstract The paper provides a general method for estimating age-reporting errors from two consecutive census populations along the lines suggested by Demeny and Shorter (1968). When the true age structures in the two censusses are the same, the general method and the Demeny...
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Published: 10 September 2020
Fig. 4 Sources of error in FBH data. Date displacement refers to events reported to have occurred earlier/later than recorded by the HDSS, leading to erroneous exclusion/inclusion from the reference period. Age understatement refers to errors resulting from the fact that a respondent More
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 362–373.
Published: 01 March 1968
... of sampling are cur- rently being made by the more industrial- Table 6.-COMPARISON OF AVERAGE ANNUAL ERRORS FOR COMPLETE CENSUSES AND FOR SAMPLE CENSUSES, SELECTED STATISTICS FOR VENEZUELA") Data as reported Average errors in the censuses Average 1955_64 Item annual change Complete1950 1960 count Sample...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 213–227.
Published: 01 May 1991
... to errors in the reporting of ages and dates, it is a promising source of up-to-date estimates of adult mortality that are free from bias due to the underreporting of the orphanhood of young children (“the adoption effect”). 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1991 1991 Adult...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 1994
... estimates may provide information about these errors. However, as an empirical matter, reporting errors are related to the respondent's education, and so it is not even possible to disentangle these errors from the effects of differences in education levels in the samples. Thus, it is unclear what...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1387–1413.
Published: 01 October 2023
... approach because HETOP estimates include error variance from the HETOP modeling. This modeling error variance inflates U , Q , and B ^ . Estimating Δ T and σ is easier in coarsened data because HETOP's reported standard errors can be used to estimate U...
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 115–123.
Published: 01 February 1985
... error are incorporated in a model of couple fertility expectations, proxy reports are valid indicators of spouse desires. In particular, there is little evidence that proxy reports are affected by systematic errors arising from projection of own beliefs onto the spouse. For desired family size, random...
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 609–617.
Published: 01 November 1991
... two-thirds of wives who report they are remarried. The use of these checks, however, does not introduce large amounts of error in an analysis of either fertility or mortality. The checks work better for white women than for black women. The compilation of the Public Use Sample for the 1900 Federal...
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Published: 03 December 2019
for each age-sex group and each type of network; an estimate of 0 means that the two independent estimates are exactly the same. Across most age-sex groups, results are internally consistent, within sampling error; however, some groups show evidence of reporting errors (e.g., young people in Indonesia More
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 699–724.
Published: 20 April 2011
... ). Conceptually, it may be appropriate to assume that self-reported measures are all equally biased by some process that is driven by the respondent’s personality and circumstances (Groot 2000 ; Lindeboom and van Doorslaer 2004 ). In contrast, observer-led measures may be simply affected by instrumental errors...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 475–484.
Published: 01 March 1968
... metodo revelo una eficacia relativa aceptable, con errores promedio de 3.6 a 5.8 por ciente, con exclusión de las areas que estan experimentando grandes anexiones. Summary This paper reports the results of a test of the relative accuracy of the housing unit method in the estimation of the population...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 51–70.
Published: 22 September 2012
... are robust to accounting for measurement error in spousal reports of parental wealth and for selection into and out of marriage. 3 8 2012 22 9 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Social mobility Marriage Inequality Multigenerational Wealth How much do spouses...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 521–544.
Published: 18 November 2012
...Alberto Palloni; Jason R. Thomas Abstract The assessment of the impact that socioeconomic determinants have on the prevalence of certain chronic conditions reported by respondents in population surveys must confront two problems. First, the self-reports could be in error (false positives and false...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1992
... on the mortality of black men and on the ages of women at first marriage. It also compares the reported distributions of duration of first marriage to estimates based on mortality and on age at first marriage. It concludes that census reports are subject to serious error. Widowhood is overreported, and marital...