Reporting Errors in Siblings' Survival Histories and Their Impact on Adult Mortality Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 387-411

  Helleringer, Stéphane ^a   Pison, Gilles ^b   Kanté, Almamy M ^a,c   Duthé, Géraldine ^a,b   Andro, Armelle ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^c IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Adult mortality; Data quality; Reporting errors; Senegal; Siblings' survival histories

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENEGAL; SIBLING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENEGAL; SIBLINGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897540951     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0268-3     Document Type: Article

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