Estimation of age distributions, census coverage and death registration completeness in Kenya
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Date
1990-08Author
Magadi, Monica A
Type
ThesisLanguage
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This thesis has examined two aspects of demography t namely; the
completeness of death registration and reIative coverage of
censuses in Kenya at the national level and by sex. The data used
was the 1969 and 1979 censuses and the death registration during
the period between 1969 and 1979. Two techniques were used,
namely; His version of the generalized growth balance
technique and the Palloni - Kaminski foward - backward projection
method.
The results showed that the completeness of death registration was
26.18 percent for males and 18.25 percent for females using
Hill's technique. The Palloni - Kominaki method gave relatively
lower death registration completeness of 19.39 percent for males
and 14.50 percent for females. The relative coverage of the the
1979 census with respect to the 1969 census was 98.79 percent for
males and 97.11 percent for females by the Hill's technique.
Using the Palloni - Kaminski method,however the coverage was
103.58 percent for males and 100.57 percent for females.
The second aspect of the thesis was the detection and correction
of errors due to age misreporting. For detection,the age ratio
technique and the age specific growth rate technique were used.
For correction, the Demeny - Shorter method and the Saxena -
Gogte method were used. Having corrected the errors due to age
misreporting individually and jointly, then the age specific
growth rate technique was again applied to the corrected data for
a check up. The effect of changes in census coverage mortality
level and life expectancy at old age was also looked into.
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Masters of Arts Degree in Population StudiesPublisher
University of Nairobi Department of Arts Population Studies
Description
A Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Master of Science Degree in Population Studies at the opulation Studies and Research Institute University of Nairobi