Residency Testing. Estimating the True Population Size of Estonia

Tiit Ene-Margit ()
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Tiit Ene-Margit: University of Tartu, Faculty of Science and Technology, Estonia

Statistics in Transition New Series, 2017, vol. 18, issue 2, 211-226

Abstract: The number of residents or population size is important for all countries. Nowadays in many countries a series of registers have been created, which can be used for assessing the population size. The residency index is a tool created for estimating the under- and over-coverage of population census and calculation of proper population size. For this aim the concept of a sign of life – a binary variable depending on register i, person j and year k has been introduced showing if the person was active in the register in a given year. The weighted sum of signs of life indicates the probability that the person belongs to the set of residents in a given year. To improve the stability of the index a linear combination of the previous value of the index and the sum of signs of life is used. Necessary parameters were estimated using empirical data.

Keywords: population size; under-coverage of census; sign of life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.21307/stattrans-2016-067

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