Using population register data and capture-recapture models to estimate over-coverage in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: Over-coverage occurs when individuals who reside in a country leave or pass away, and this demographic event is not recorded in population registers, leading to population size overestimation. This problem can have important policy and decision-making consequences. With the increased reliance on incomplete but overlapping official registers for documenting whole populations or subgroups of populations, there is a need for more sophisticated modelling techniques that reliably estimate population size, and hence over-coverage, from such registers. Previous approaches have considered multiple systems estimation (MSE) for monitoring over-coverage, but MSE does not naturally extend to cases where individuals are followed over time. In this paper, motivated by the case study of Sweden, we develo

SUBMITTER: Santos B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11655540 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature