Quantifying age heaping and age misreporting in a multicentric survey

Quantifying age heaping and age misreporting in a multicentric survey

Introduction: Demographic indices known as the age-heaping indexes were used to explore the patterns of age misreporting in a multicentric survey. Methods: The data of 3252 individuals were analyzed, and measurement of errors in age for the sampled data has been evaluated by Whipple's Index (WI...

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Main Authors: D R Basannar, Sumeet Singh, Jyoti Yadav, Arun Kumar Yadav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2022-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Subjects:
age-heaping bias
myer's blended index
whipple's index
Online Access:http://www.ijcm.org.in/article.asp?issn=0970-0218;year=2022;volume=47;issue=1;spage=104;epage=106;aulast=Basannar

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