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A controlled donor imputation system for a one‐number census
Author(s) -
Steele Fiona,
Brown James,
Chambers Ray
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/1467-985x.t01-1-00250
Subject(s) - census , imputation (statistics) , statistics , computer science , mathematics , medicine , missing data , environmental health , population
Summary. The 2001 UK census was a one‐number census. An integral part of such a process has been the creation of a transparent census database that has been adjusted for the underenumeration in the 2001 census. The methodology for creating this database is based on a controlled donor imputation system that imputes individuals and households estimated to have been missed in the census. This paper describes this methodology and provides results from a statistical assessment of its performance using data that realistically simulate the census process.