Is Swaziland census data suitable for fertility measurement?

Abstract This study seeks to assess fertility data in Swaziland based on the 1976, 1986, 1997 and 2007 censuses. By utilising single-year age-sex published raw data, demographic evaluation tools—sex ratio, age ratio, Whipple’s index, and modified Whipple’s index—were used to assess age misreporting...

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Main Authors: Garikayi B. Chemhaka, Clifford Odimegwu, Eugene N. Zwane, Jeremy D. Gumbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-07-01
Series:Genus
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-016-0010-2