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Thursday, December 3 / 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM   •   Silver Room

Session 145:
Data Quality Issues in African Surveys and Censuses

Discussant: Rolang Majelantle, University of Botswana
Chair: Enock Ngome, University of Botswana

  1. Primary infertility in African censuses: potential and limits of IPUMS samples • Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur

  2. Quality of age data from African censuses. Evidence from census data matching in Mali. Quelle fiabilité accorder aux déclarations sur les âges en Afrique ? Les enseignements d’un appariement de recensements au Mali • Assa Doumbia-Gakou, Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI), Mali ; Véronique Hertrich, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

  3. Investigating old age exaggeration in South African population and survey data using near extinct generations methods • Ronald Richman, AIG South Africa ; Rob Dorrington, University of Cape Town

  4. Undercounting controversies in South African censuses • Jeremy Gumbo, University of the Witwatersrand ; Clifford O. Odimegwu, University of the Witwatersrand

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