A note on the measurement of accuracy for subnational demographic estimates

Demography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 193-201

  Swanson, David A ^a,b   Tayman, Jeff ^c   Barr, Charles F ^c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CENSUSES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0034183999     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2648121     Document Type: Article

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