Session 88:
Data quality
Chair: Winfred A. Avogo, Illinois State University
Discussant: Henry V. Doctor, Columbia University & PRRINN-MNCH Programme
Forgotten marriages? Measuring the reliability of retrospective marriage histories Sophia Chae, University of Pennsylvania
How complete and accurate are siblings' survival histories collected in sub-Saharan countries? Results from a linkage study in Eastern Senegal Stephane Helleringer, Columbia University ; Malick Kante, Columbia University ; Gilles Pison, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Géraldine Duthé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Armelle Andro, Université Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne and Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Cheikh Sokhna, Institut de Recherche sur le Development ; Jean-Francois Trape, Institut de Recherche sur le Development
IPUMS-International: quality of sample micro data for 25 African censuses (13 countries) available to researchers free of cost Robert McCaa, University of Minnesota ; Lara Cleveland, University of Minnesota ; Matthew Sobek, University of Minnesota
Letting silence speak: analysis of nonresponse in survey data from sub-Saharan Africa Guy Stecklov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; Alexander Weinreb, University of Texas at Austin
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