Thursday, April 30 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Mackinac East

Session 5:
Innovative Approaches to Demographic Data Collection and Methods

Chair: Peter D. Brandon, Australian National University
Discussant: Leah K. VanWey, Brown University

  1. A Mixed Method Approach to Sample DesignBarbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Allan Parnell, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities ; Philip McDaniel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. Responsive Survey Design, Demographic Data Collection and Models of Demographic BehaviorWilliam G. Axinn, University of Michigan ; Cynthia F. Link, University of Michigan

  3. Statistical Tests of the Assumptions behind Respondent Driven Sampling in a Survey of Female Sex Workers in ShanghaiWilliam Whipple Neely, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Giovanna Merli, Duke University ; Feng Tian, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  4. Fertility Patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing Own-Children Method and Birth History EstimatesMichael Levin, Harvard University ; Collins Opiyo, University of Pennsylvania

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