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Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 291–316.
Published: 19 February 2011
...Daniel Goodkind Abstract Child underreporting is often neglected in studies of fertility and sex ratio imbalance in China. To improve estimates of these measures, I use intercensal comparisons to identify a rise in underreporting, which followed the increased enforcement and penalization under...
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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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in Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences
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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 2 Evidence for underreporting of sex-selective abortions. We infer the expected number of girls from the observed number of boys in our sample by modeling the gender of a child as an i.i.d. draw from a Bernoulli distribution and assuming a natural sex ratio at birth of 105 boys for every
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Are births underreported in rural China? Manipulation of statistical records in response to China’s population policies
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 109–126.
Published: 01 February 2000
... planning regulations, or statistically through manipulation of statistical records. We investigate underreporting of births in four rural counties of northern China, using data from a 1992 sample survey featuring a reproductive history. To clarify the mechanisms of underreporting, we focus on the ways...
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Trends in deep and extreme poverty after adjusting for potential earnings u...
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Fig. 3 Trends in deep and extreme poverty after adjusting for potential earnings underreporting and zero-income households. Adjustments for potential earnings underreporting replace reported earnings with the product of hours worked and the minimum wage for any individual reporting earnings
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Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 899–925.
Published: 26 May 2020
...Laura Lindberg; Kathryn Kost; Isaac Maddow-Zimet; Sheila Desai; Mia Zolna Abstract Despite its frequency, abortion remains a highly sensitive, stigmatized, and difficult-to-measure behavior. We present estimates of abortion underreporting for three of the most commonly used national fertility...
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Using surname data in U.S. Puerto Rican mortality analysis
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 175–180.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Ira Rosenwaike; Katherine Hempstead; Richard G. Rogers Abstract Evidence suggests that among mainland-born decedents, Hispanic (particularly Puerto Rican) origin may have been underreported in states that have added an ancestry item to their death certificates. This study uses the 1980 Census...
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A Note on Maritally-Disrupted Men’s Reports of Child Support in the June 1980 Current Population Survey
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 385–389.
Published: 01 August 1983
... receipt of child support payments. The comparison indicates that the number of men with children from previous marriages living elsewhere is substantially underreported in the June 1980 CPS. Because of the apparent underreporting, the data on the provision of financial support should be interpreted...
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A Cautionary Tale of Using Data From the Tail
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2361–2368.
Published: 15 October 2020
... and administrative data has shown quite convincingly that income is significantly underreported in large national surveys, particularly for individuals and families in the far left tail of the reported income distribution. 1 This underreporting leads to an overestimation of extreme and deep poverty...
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Another Plea for Caution When Using Survey Income Data From the Far-Left Tail
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2377–2381.
Published: 19 November 2020
... that income is significantly underreported in household surveys. This underreporting is evident across many surveys in the United States and internationally, has worsened noticeably over time, and appears to be most problematic for values at the very bottom of the reported income distribution. Given...
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Further Analyses Reinforce Our Conclusions About Extreme Poverty
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2369–2376.
Published: 15 October 2020
...Fig. 3 Trends in deep and extreme poverty after adjusting for potential earnings underreporting and zero-income households. Adjustments for potential earnings underreporting replace reported earnings with the product of hours worked and the minimum wage for any individual reporting earnings...
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An assessment of China’s fertility level using the variable- r method
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 271–281.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., Provincial, and Local Level . Population and Development Review , 12 , 529 – 32 . 10.2307/1973220 Goodkind D. ( 2004 ). China’s Missing Children: The 2000 Census Underreporting Surprise . Population Studies , 58 , 281 – 95 . 10.1080/0032472042000272348 Goodkind, D. and L. West...
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An assessment of methods for estimating adult mortality from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 435–450.
Published: 01 August 1986
... conducted in Peru, Kenya, and Malawi. This provides improved estimates of recent mortality and also clarifies the nature of the errors that affect the basic data. Age misreporting and other errors affect the information about older respondents and orphanhood of children is sometimes underreported...
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The reporting of sensitive behavior by adolescents: A methodological experiment in Kenya
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 247–268.
Published: 01 May 2003
... 6,000 unmarried adolescents in two districts of Kenya—Nyeri and Kisumu—indicates substantial and significant differences in reported rates of premarital sex across interview modes, although not always in the expected direction. Our assumption that girls underreport sexual activity in face-to-face...
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Repeat abortion
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 February 1976
... efficiency, and exposure lengths. Tested are three hypotheses put forward by Daily et al. in a 1973 analysis: (i) the low repeat abortion ratio of .0245 is attributable in part to underreporting of registered induced abortions as repeat ones; (ii) a major part of the rise in repeat abortion ratios, from...
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Recent trends in marital disruption
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 37–51.
Published: 01 February 1989
... of underreporting, we find that recent rates imply that about two-thirds of all first marriages are likely to end in separation or divorce. We examine the persistence of major differences in marital stability and evaluate the comparative stability of first and second marriages. 7 1 2011 © Population...
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Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas With Defective Vital Records
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1363–1388.
Published: 05 July 2018
... regression model for small-area mortality schedules that simultaneously addresses the problems of small local samples and underreporting of deaths. We combine a relational model for mortality schedules with probabilistic prior information on death registration coverage derived from demographic estimation...
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Depends Who's Asking: Interviewer Effects in Demographic and Health Surveys Abortion Data
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 February 2021
... in magnitude. Our findings suggest the need for additional effort in assessing the causes of abortion underreporting in household surveys, including interviewers' skills and characteristics. This study also has important implications for improving the collection of other sensitive demographic data (e.g...
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The Quality of Male Fertility Data in Major U.S. Surveys
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 101–124.
Published: 28 December 2011
... underreporting biases associations between early parenthood and its antecedents. We find that in the NSFG, roughly four out of five early births were reported; but in the NLSY79 and NLSY97, almost nine-tenths of early births were reported. In all three surveys, incomplete reporting was especially pronounced...
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Comparative Estimates of Teenage Illegitimacy in the United States, 1940–44 to 1970–74
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Demography (1980) 17 (1): 13–23.
Published: 01 February 1980
... the 1940s. Although there are some indications of a slight underreporting of white illegitimate first births by Vital Statistics during the 1940s and early 1950s, the overall comparison produces a general consensus between the two data sources on the incidence of illegitimacy among both white and nonwhite...
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