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Contextualizing gender and regional differences in quality of age reporting in India: Application of post data collection quality indicators

Mohammed Illias Sheikh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
Babul Hossain, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

With the contrasting variation in the development level between the north and southern states in India, the study argues the accuracy of different approaches to estimate age misreporting and the gender difference in the age heaping process between the north and south states in India. The finding suggests that the modified total Whipple's index (Wtot) has been proven a more accurate and most straightforward index measuring the quality of age data. Our finding indicates no substantial difference among males and females in age misreporting, but preference for age reporting with terminal digit 0 and 5 is much higher in Northern states than Southern states.

Keywords: Census data, Gender

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Presented in Session P14.