Saturday, April 13 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM   •   Napoleon A2

Session 197:
Small Area and Small Domain Methods in Demography

Chair: Bethany S. DeSalvo, U.S. Census Bureau
Discussant: Carl P. Schmertmann, Florida State University

  1. Error and Bias in under-Five Mortality Estimates Derived from Birth Histories with Small Sample SizesLaura A. Dwyer-Lindgren, University of Washington ; Emmanuela Gakidou, University of Washington ; Abraham Flaxman, University of Washington ; Haidong Wang, University of Washington, Seattle

  2. A Method for Estimating the Age-Specific Mortality Pattern in Limited Populations of Small AreasAnastasia Kostaki, Athens University of Economics and Business ; Byron Kotzamanis, University of Thessaly

  3. A First Validation of Demographic Small Area EstimatesMatt Ruther, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Galen Maclaurin, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Stefan Leyk, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Barbara Buttenfield, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Nicholas Nagle, University of Tennessee

  4. District Level Infant Mortality Rate: An Exposition of Small Area EstimationAwdhesh Yadav, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

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