Background: Age is an important variable in epidemiological studies and an invariable part
of community-based study reports. Aims: The aim was to assess the accuracy of age data …

Background Large scale surveys are the main source of data pertaining to all the social and
demographic indicators, hence its quality is also of great concern. In this paper, we discuss …

Age misreporting is a common phenomenon in Demographic and Health Surveys, and there
are numerous reasons for this. The trend and pattern of disparity in age heaping vary …

The census is one of the most valuable sources of information on demographic data. The
census is a systematic procedure of recording information about a population in a definite …

The quality of age reporting in the recently released single-year age data from the Indian
Census 2011 is examined. Besides analyzing whether there was any significant …

In the present study, an attempt has been made to review the original Whipp modifications
suggested to it over time. Several researchers throughout the w Whipple index by changing …

Aiming to update the economic, demographic, and social characteristics and housing
conditions of the population, Morocco has conducted its last General Population and …

The aim this study is to examine the nature and patterns of the reported age statistics in the
North West Province using the 1996, 2001 and 2011 South African population censuses …

Background: Age is an important variable not only for demographers but also for many other
branches of social science research, epidemiological and community-based study. The …

The objective of this paper is to provide data users with a worldwide assessment of the age
reporting in the Tanzania Population Census 2012 data. Many demographic and socio …