1. A three-sample multiple-recapture approach to census population estimation with heterogeneous catchability.
- Author
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Derroch JN, Fienberg SE, Glonek GF, and Junker BW
- Subjects
- Americas, Demography, Developed Countries, North America, Population, Research, United States, Censuses, Data Collection, Models, Theoretical, Population Characteristics, Research Design, Statistics as Topic
- Abstract
"A central assumption in the standard capture-recapture approach to the estimation of the size of a closed population is the homogeneity of the 'capture' probabilities. In this article we develop an approach that allows for varying susceptibility to capture through individual parameters using a variant of the Rasch model from psychological measurement situations. Our approach requires an additional recapture. In the context of census undercount estimation, this requirement amounts to the use of a second independent sample or alternative data source to be matched with census and Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) data.... We illustrate [our] models and their estimation using data from a 1988 dress-rehearsal study for the 1990 census conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, which explored the use of administrative data as a supplement to the PES. The article includes a discussion of extensions and related models.", (excerpt)
- Published
- 1993