Stratified Sampling of Neighborhood Sections for Population Estimation: A Case Study of Bo City, Sierra Leone.

There is a need for better estimators of population size in places that have undergone rapid growth and where collection of census data is difficult. We explored simulated estimates of urban population based on survey data from Bo, Sierra Leone, using two approaches: (1) stratified sampling from acr...

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Main Authors: Roger Hillson, Joel D Alejandre, Kathryn H Jacobsen, Rashid Ansumana, Alfred S Bockarie, Umaru Bangura, Joseph M Lamin, David A Stenger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132850