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Measuring Residential Segregation With the ACS: How the Margin of Error Affects the Dissimilarity Index
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 285–309.
Published: 19 January 2017
...Jeffrey Napierala; Nancy Denton Abstract The American Community Survey (ACS) provides valuable, timely population estimates but with increased levels of sampling error. Although the margin of error is included with aggregate estimates, it has not been incorporated into segregation indexes...
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How much do we count? interpretation and error-making in the decennial census
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 121–134.
Published: 01 February 1999
.... Interpretations about the purpose and meaning of the census, about commitment to the task, and about connection to government, singly and together with literacy skills (e.g., reading and general literacy competence), were associated with errors that are not detectable by evaluative methodologies used regularly...
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Two Sources of Error in Data on Migration From Mexico to the United States in Mexican Household-Based Surveys
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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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Some sources of error and their effect on census statistics
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Demography (1976) 13 (2): 273–286.
Published: 01 May 1976
...Barbara A. Bailar Abstract Often the reliability of survey data is examined only in relationship to sampling variances, excluding many other potential sources of error. If the sampling variance dominates the mean-square error, then few mistakes result by considering sampling variance only; however...
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Plot of the square root of the mean squared error of states’ detention rate...
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in Beyond the Border and Into the Heartland: Spatial Patterning of U.S. Immigration Detention
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Published: 21 May 2018
Fig. 2 Plot of the square root of the mean squared error of states’ detention rates by year (panel a) and boxplots of state detention rates by region and year (panel b) for the period 1999–2011. Each boxplot captures the distribution of detention rates for all states in that region and year
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in Decomposition of Improvements in Infant Mortality in Asian Developing Countries Over Three Decades
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Published: 01 February 2021
Fig. 3 Out-of-sample error rate, with 95% confidence intervals calculated from bootstrapping with 100 repetitions. Testing samples are used for prediction. IBS = integrated Brier score. Cox-PH 2way = Cox proportional hazard two-way interaction model. Cox-PH 2way select = Cox proportional hazard
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in The Dynamics of Son Preference, Technology Diffusion, and Fertility Decline Underlying Distorted Sex Ratios at Birth: A Simulation Approach
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Published: 16 September 2016
Fig. 3 Model fit measure or root mean squared error (Eq. ( 5 )) in response to varying ability parameters (ρ and ϕ in panel a), and varying readiness parameters (σ and β in panel b). Lower values indicate better fit between simulated and UN SRB estimates
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in Microsimulation of Household and Marital Transitions Leading to Childlessness Among Dutch Women Born Between 1971 and 2000
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Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 4 Mean absolute error between the observed and simulated proportions of women with at least one child according to groups defined by age and birth cohort. Figures correspond to those obtained in the baseline scenario. Source: Authors' calculations and Statistics Netherlands (2020a) .
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in Understanding Internal Migration: A Research Note Providing an Assessment of Migration Selection With Genetic Data
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 3 Genetic correlations for logged migration distance. Circles and error bars indicate genetic correlation estimates and standard errors. Correlations significant at the 5% level after Bonferroni correction are highlighted as open circles. ADHD = attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. LDL
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in The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 2 Migration patterns and EA PGI. Colored bars and error bars represent estimated mean PGIs and their robust standard errors. The first 20 principal components are controlled. Capital letters indicate the six-category migration groups: (A) moved from a coal mining to a non–coal mining place
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in The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 4 Migration patterns and health-related PGIs. Colored bars and error bars represent estimated mean PGIs and their robust standard errors. The first 20 principal components are controlled. Capital letters indicate the six-category migration groups: (A) moved from a coal mining to a non–coal
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Median prediction error by sample fraction, with 50 samples for each sample...
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in A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality
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Published: 28 May 2019
Fig. 4 Median prediction error by sample fraction, with 50 samples for each sample fraction. For each sample, the median is calculated across all ages and all mortality schedules in each sample category (in-sample and out-of-sample). Whiskers extend to 10 % and 90 % quantiles.
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in The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on Adult Mortality in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database
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Published: 15 September 2020
Fig. 6 Marital status of men and mortality. Error bars are 95% confidence intervals. The estimates shown across the four panels are from the same model, and the common reference category is men in first monogamous marriages who have not been widowed. Estimates are based on Models 8 and 9.
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in Biases in Survey Estimates of Neonatal Mortality: Results From a Validation Study in Urban Areas of Guinea-Bissau
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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
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Absolute error (births/woman) in TFR over alternative methods and data sets...
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Fig. 1 Absolute error (births/woman) in TFR over alternative methods and data sets. Solid dots are at median error for each method and data set. Horizontal bars extend from the 10th to 90th percentile of error. Numbers in parentheses indicate the count of schedules for which it is possible
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in Uncertainty About the Size of the Unauthorized Foreign-Born Population in the United States
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Published: 01 December 2021
Fig. 1 Probability distribution of coverage error for unauthorized Mexican men, 2018
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2375–2383.
Published: 02 October 2017
...D. Paul Sullins Abstract Because of classification errors reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 42 % of the same-sex married partners in the sample for this study are misclassified different-sex married partners, thus calling into question findings regarding same-sex...
View articletitled, Sample <span class="search-highlight">Errors</span> Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex Married Parents: A Comment on “Family Structure and Child Health: Does the Sex Composition of Parents Matter?”
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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
... errors but not age and date errors. Overall, SSH data led to a 20 % underestimate of 45 q 15 relative to HDSS data. Our study suggests new quality improvement strategies for SSH data and demonstrates the potential use of HDSS data for the validation of “unconventional” demographic techniques. Third...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Length of Forecast Horizon on Population Forecast Errors
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 261–274.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Stanley K. Smith; Terry Sincich Abstract Many studies have found that population forecast errors generally increase with the length of the forecast horizon, but none have examined this relationship in detail. Do errors grow linearly, exponentially, or in some other manner as the forecast horizon...
View articletitled, An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Length of Forecast Horizon on Population Forecast <span class="search-highlight">Errors</span>
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Stability over time in the distribution of population forecast errors
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 461–474.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Stanley K. Smith; Terry Sincich Abstract A number of studies in recent years have investigated empirical approaches to the production of confidence intervals for population projections. The critical assumption underlying these approaches is that the distribution of forecast errors remains stable...
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