Demographic Techniques: Data Adjustment and Correction

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 126-137

  Booth, Heather ^a   Gerland, Patrick ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustments; Age distribution; Age heaping; Census; Completeness; Consistent correction; Content errors; Coverage errors; Demographic methods; Digit preference; Evaluation; Intercensal cohort analysis; Item nonresponses; Missing data; Postenumeration survey; Robust time series; Sampling errors; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961405700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.31011-X     Document Type: Chapter

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