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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 381–395.
Published: 01 August 1976
...Francis C. Madigan; H. Bradley Wells Abstract There are generally three stages to the development of rules for matching vital events data from two sources covering the same population: (a) establishing a set of “true” matches and nonmatches; (b) determining the best tolerance limits for each single...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 727–739.
Published: 01 November 2003
... of the Ages of Supercentenarians 735 Although 246 of the 297 purported supercentenarians with linked records had census ages that indicated that they were true supercentenarians, for 217, the ages in the two records matched exactly (see Table 5). The group with some age disagreement included 62 cases...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 999–1021.
Published: 03 April 2019
...Randall Akee; Maggie R. Jones; Sonya R. Porter Abstract Using unique linked data, we examine income inequality and mobility across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Our data encompass the universe of income tax filers in the United States for the period 2000–2014, matched...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1513–1541.
Published: 21 July 2020
... the probability of (1) finding the right individual and (2) making an incorrect link. This is an issue that we return to shortly. Employing a probabilistic method of record linkage means that an algorithm is trained to recognize patterns in a data set of potential matches that are consistent with a true...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 569–585.
Published: 01 November 1983
... of the death certifi- Age 85-89 90-94 95-99 100 and over White 589 620 584 302 Nonwhite 543 471 489 163 572 DEMOGRAPHY,volume 20, number 4, November 1983 A simple conditional weighting scheme was developed to aid in distin- guishing true matches from false links. The ten factors employed in deciding whether...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1693–1715.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the birth but before divorce, and from matching error. To estimate our Type II error rate, we leveraged the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and the American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the “true” share of marriages in our sample that likely have ended in divorce. (For marriages, we observed...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 967–971.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Methods Protocol ( HFD 2023 ). Errors in their example measure failure to match another algorithm, rather than failure to match true cohort values. There is a simple variant of the AP estimator that has a stronger demographic rationale and that better approximates the HFD algorithm. This alternative...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 361–382.
Published: 01 May 2006
... a "true" match.8 We do not require consistency on race or Hispanic origin because the race question changed in 2003 (allowing responses in multiple categories) and because of response inconsistency and variability. Internal Migration The CPS asks respondents whether they lived in a different residence one...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 01 November 2017
... whereas the SSA Death Index is through 2012. Although we informally refer to the Census Bureau as “matching on the respondent’s Social Security number (SSN),” this is true only in an indirect sense. The Census Bureau matches on a personal identification key (PIK), which is a number that has a one-to-one...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 175–186.
Published: 01 May 2000
... at death certificate ages 105+: The death certificate age is greater than the SSA age for 12.5% of the matched records, but the opposite is never true. Table 4 presents the percentage agreement in age in the two sources according to selected demographic characteris- tics. For the aggregate groups aged 85...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 565–580.
Published: 01 November 1992
... 68%. The report contains speculation that the true rates of agreement are even lower, in view of the effects of match bias. One aspect of match bias is that in the case of people whose ages are reported inconsistently, the identifiers used to form matches also may be more likely to be reported...
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 February 1998
... Preston et al. (1996) report the results of a matching study aimed at identifying the true ages of African Americans re- ported as dying at ages 65 and older in 1985.5 A national sample of decedents were matched to records of the Social Security Administration and to U.S. Censuses from 1900 to 1920, when...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2129–2150.
Published: 27 September 2013
.... (1) and (2). This is true even asymptotically (Heckman 1997 ). We exploit four statistical strategies: one non-experimental regression method (OLS regression), and three quasi-experimental strategies (propensity score matching, parametric maximum likelihood (P-MLE), and semiparametric maximum...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
... estimation samples in which the distribution of income, education, employment and occupation, marital status, and other theoretically relevant variables among blacks is made to match the distribution of these variables among whites. For males, 80% of the black-white gap in life expectancy at age 1 can...
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 397–409.
Published: 01 August 1976
... such a study is made, it is doubtful that an estimate of the true num- Evaluation of 1970 Census Count of American Indians 409 and Country of Origin on the Death Certificate and Matching Census Record, United States: May-August 1960. Vital and Health Statistics, Data Evaluation and Methods Research, Series 2...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 February 1990
... distribution was rescaled to match the mean of the recorded totals of the 1971 and 1981 censuses. Table 1shows the means of the recorded age distributions in the 1971 and 1981 censuses, the assumed level of enumeration completeness at each age interval, and the constructed true age distribution for 1971-1981...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 131–147.
Published: 01 February 1990
...K. Venkatacharya Abstract Coale’s robust birth rate estimate, obtained by adjusting the birth rate of a stable population selected by matching the observed population of both sexes under the age of 15, C (15), and the probability of survival of births to age 5, l 5 , is shown to be equal...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 219–237.
Published: 13 December 2011
... the treatment and control groups are differenced out. Because we suspect that this may be true in this application, we implement difference-in-difference matching estimation. In the NIS, interviewees were asked about the wages they earned at their last job in their source country before they migrated...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 193–209.
Published: 01 May 1996
... at the Highest Ages . Asian and Pacific Population Forum , 4 ( 1 ), 1 – 31 . Coale A. , & Rives N.W. ( 1973 ). A Statistical Reconstruction of the Black Population of the United States, 1880–1970: Estimates of True Numbers by Age and Sex, Birth Rates, and Total Fertility . Population Index...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1401–1428.
Published: 02 September 2011
... of spousal search and find that “marital shopping” can generate epidemic HIV prevalence despite low transmission rates because search behavior interacts with dynamics of HIV infectiousness. The implied age-infection profile closely mimics that in South Africa, and the suggested behavior matches that reported...
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