Thursday, May 1 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Board Room 2

Session 13:
Innovative Applications to Enhance the Use of Secondary Data

Chair: Roger Avery, Brown University
Discussant: Michael Rendall, University of London

  1. The Life Table as a Theoretical Model:Demography in a New Key • Thomas K. Burch, University of Victoria and University of Western Ontario

  2. Census 2000 Coverage Analysis Using Demographic Methods • Arjun Adlakha, U.S. Census Bureau ; Gregory Robinson, U.S. Census Bureau ; Kirsten West, U.S. Census Bureau ; Antonio Bruce, U.S. Census Bureau

  3. Calibrating Census Microdata against Gold Standard Surveys: Kenya 1999 (Fertility) and Mexico 2000 (Female Labor Force) • Robert McCaa, University of Minnesota ; Murungaru Kimani, University of Kenya ; Albert Esteve, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona ; Jose Rodolfo Gutierrez-Montes, University of Minnesota and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California ; Gabriela Vazquez-Benitez, University of Minnesota

  4. Estimating Life Expectancy at Old Ages • Nan Li, University of Victoria ; Zheng Wu, University of Victoria

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