Background: censuses in developing countries are prone to errors of age misreporting due to ignorance, low literacy levels and other social, economic and cultural factors. Ages are commonly rounded with great affinity for 0 or 5. This tendency to digit preference and/or avoidance results in age heaping or concentration of ages at certain digits. This study examined the extent of digit preference in the Nigerian census data of 1991 and 2006. Methods: this study utilized age data from the 1991 and 2006 Nigerian censuses reported in single years. The Whipple and Myers indices were used to determine the extent of digit preference. Results: both the 1991 and 2006 census data showed the expected pattern of errors, with Whipple and Myers indices b...
<b>Background</b>: Developing appropriate and equitable policies for older people in Africa requires...
Context: Population censuses in Nigeria have been plagued with under- or over-enumeration, as well a...
The present dissertation discusses the appropriateness of using the age-heaping method as a measure ...
<p><strong>Background:</strong> censuses in developing countries are prone to errors of age misrepor...
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in popula...
Demographic data are usually classified by age and sex, as they both are very important variables. N...
Quality of demographic data in Nigeria has been investigated in this paper. Graphical and algebraic...
The objective of this paper is to provide data users with a worldwide assessment of the age reportin...
Abstract Objective This paper evaluates one aspect of data quality within DHS surveys, the accuracy ...
The second phase of census operation in India — population enumeration — collects data on individual...
Background: Age is an important variable in epidemiological studies and an invariable part of commun...
Ages reported in censuses in developing countries are subject to errors and bias resulting in uncert...
In Pakistan, like many other developing countries of the world, age distributions availabe fro...
Context/background: Despite the public acknowledgment of improvement in sub-Saharan African censuses...
The quality of age-sex reporting and the presence of net undercount in the Ethiopian censuses were a...
<b>Background</b>: Developing appropriate and equitable policies for older people in Africa requires...
Context: Population censuses in Nigeria have been plagued with under- or over-enumeration, as well a...
The present dissertation discusses the appropriateness of using the age-heaping method as a measure ...
<p><strong>Background:</strong> censuses in developing countries are prone to errors of age misrepor...
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in popula...
Demographic data are usually classified by age and sex, as they both are very important variables. N...
Quality of demographic data in Nigeria has been investigated in this paper. Graphical and algebraic...
The objective of this paper is to provide data users with a worldwide assessment of the age reportin...
Abstract Objective This paper evaluates one aspect of data quality within DHS surveys, the accuracy ...
The second phase of census operation in India — population enumeration — collects data on individual...
Background: Age is an important variable in epidemiological studies and an invariable part of commun...
Ages reported in censuses in developing countries are subject to errors and bias resulting in uncert...
In Pakistan, like many other developing countries of the world, age distributions availabe fro...
Context/background: Despite the public acknowledgment of improvement in sub-Saharan African censuses...
The quality of age-sex reporting and the presence of net undercount in the Ethiopian censuses were a...
<b>Background</b>: Developing appropriate and equitable policies for older people in Africa requires...
Context: Population censuses in Nigeria have been plagued with under- or over-enumeration, as well a...
The present dissertation discusses the appropriateness of using the age-heaping method as a measure ...