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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 374–387.
Published: 01 March 1967
...H. Bradley Wells; B. L. Agrawal Summary India’s ad hoc sample registration scheme for obtaining current estimates of rural birth and death rates for the whole country is being implemented quite rapidly. Five states have 140 sample units, and eleven states will have from 20 to 100 units in the study...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 403–411.
Published: 01 November 1969
...D. C. Mehta Abstract Since October, 1965, births and deaths in rural Gujarat State, India, have been recorded under two independent systems in a random sample of units. First, a part-time local “registrar” is appointed in each sample unit (village or segment thereof) who: prepares a house list...
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Published: 12 May 2015
Fig. 8 2009 in-sample forecasts of males and females in the United Kingdom based on the 1975–2000 truncated data set: Age profile (first row) and totals (second row)
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 389–394.
Published: 01 August 1978
...Bernard Lazerwitz Abstract High, middle, and low estimates for a rare population group, the Jewish population of the United States, are presented together with their root mean square errors. These estimates are based upon a national sample whose essential survey design features are outlined...
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Demography (1973) 10 (2): 137–160.
Published: 01 May 1973
... 1973 Current Population Survey Regression Estimate School Enrollment Standard Estimate Local Unit References Ericksen , Eugene P. ( 1971 ). A Method for Combining Sample Survey: Data and Symptomatic Indicators to Obtain Estimates for Local Units . Ann Arbor : University...
View articletitled, A method for combining <span class="search-highlight">sample</span> survey data and symptomatic indicators to obtain population estimates for local areas
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 228–243.
Published: 01 March 1967
... Family Planning Program and rural health im- provement program, a large sample is indicated. Originally, there were to be 150 urban and 150 rural sampling units in each of five survey regions and 150 urban units in each of the three largest cities. Because the first results indicated unanticipated...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2129–2160.
Published: 16 October 2018
...-corrected estimators eliminate virtually all of the bias in segregation estimates in most cases of practical interest, although the correction fails to eliminate bias in some cases when the population is unevenly distributed among geographic units and the average within-unit samples are very small. We...
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View articletitled, Has Income Segregation Really Increased? Bias and Bias Correction in <span class="search-highlight">Sample</span>-Based Segregation Estimates
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for article titled, Has Income Segregation Really Increased? Bias and Bias Correction in <span class="search-highlight">Sample</span>-Based Segregation Estimates
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1499–1509.
Published: 08 August 2016
..., whites, African Americans, Latinos, men, white men, African American men, and Latino men. Regions and states reflect inmates’ region and state of residence. The eight sampling units in the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities are New York, Florida, Texas, California...
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View articletitled, Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the <span class="search-highlight">United</span> States
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1195–1218.
Published: 17 June 2019
... in school to be included in the survey. The Add Health sampling strategy may result in a more highly educated set of respondents (i.e., respondents who had not dropped out of school). A relevant difference across surveys is the sampling unit. Respondents in the NSFG, Add Health, and NLSY-97 provided...
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View articletitled, Measuring Cohabitation in U.S. National Surveys
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for article titled, Measuring Cohabitation in U.S. National Surveys
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in Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the United States
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Published: 08 August 2016
Fig. 2 Region- and state-level cumulative risk of parental and paternal imprisonment in a state institution for white children, African American children, and Latino children. Regions and states reflect inmates’ region and state of residence. The eight sampling units in the Survey of Inmates
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 469–478.
Published: 01 August 1973
...Monroe G. Sirken Abstract This paper studies the design effect of counting rules, for linking deaths to housing units where they are enumerated in the survey, on the sampling variance of dual system and single system estimators of death registration completeness. It investigates estimators based...
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in Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the United States
> Demography
Published: 08 August 2016
Fig. 1 Region- and state-level cumulative risk of imprisonment in a state institution for whites, African Americans, Latinos, white men, African American men, and Latino men. Regions and states reflect inmates’ region and state of residence. The eight sampling units in the Survey of Inmates
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1951–1974.
Published: 15 September 2020
...John R. Logan; Andrew Foster; Hongwei Xu; Wenquan Zhang Abstract Reports of rising income segregation in the United States have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased because of a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent...
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View articletitled, Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom?
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1377–1400.
Published: 01 November 2011
... with estimates based on subjective probabilities of survival for the same sample. The results are remarkably similar. We then use this approach to compare differential survival by SES for 10 European countries and the United States. Wealthier people have higher survival probabilities than those who are less...
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View articletitled, Differential Survival in Europe and the <span class="search-highlight">United</span> States: Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival
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for article titled, Differential Survival in Europe and the <span class="search-highlight">United</span> States: Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 361–382.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and are particularly ill-suited for measuring the emigration of recent arrivals. Here we introduce a new method for estimating foreign-born emigration that takes advantage of the sample design of the Current Population Survey (CPS): repeated interviews of persons in the same housing units over a period of 16 months...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 249–267.
Published: 01 March 1968
... for other SMSA's with more than one million residents (47.0 percent Collectionof survey data.-An area prob- ability sample of 1,165 Los Angeles and Orange county housing units was drawn and first contacted in July, 1961. Within the selected units, interviews were ob- tained from randomly selected adult resi...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 127–138.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Guillermina Jasso; Douglas S. Massey; Mark R. Rosenzweig; James P. Smith Abstract This paper provides an overview of the New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P), a panel survey of a nationally representative sample of new legal immigrants to the United States based on probability samples...
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in Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the United States
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Published: 08 August 2016
state imprisonment, respectively. Regions and states reflect inmates’ region and state of residence. The eight sampling units in the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities are New York, Florida, Texas, California, the Northeast (except New York), the Midwest, the South (except
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2159–2179.
Published: 16 October 2017
... inclusion probabilities of households. Furthermore, unit nonresponse has to be accounted for. In sum, 87 % of the households contacted participated in the survey (Razafindratsima et al. 2011 ). To address nonresponse and simultaneously account for the sample design, the MAFE survey contains nonresponse...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 199–212.
Published: 01 May 1997
... for the number of Israeli Jews in the United States (173,000-193,000) are based on Israeli border control data, and on partial U.S. census data for Los Angeles and New York. The three low estimates (90,000-117,000) are based on (I) the small sample of Israelis in the 1990 National Jewish Population Study; (2...
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