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Scoring the Census Priority Table for Age Heaping and Shifting: A Study of 2006 Nigeria Population Census Result
Authored by Okafor Samuel O
Over the years, Nigeria had been struggling with census problems, which
mainly have to do with appropriate data collection and management. This
situation has drastically affected the quality of population data made
available to the public and by implication, discourage sensitive
research ventures which mainly rely on the census data in the country.
Similarly, this has affected the structure and direction of development
policies and projects in Nigeria which only sound plausible but cannot
be realizable due to discrepancies between the population realities, and
the assumptions on the paper (census results). This study focused on
the 2006 population census result using the population priority table to
statistically assess the quality of age reporting with the aid of
whipple index and the sex ratio of the aged (85 years and above).
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