Quality of reported ages: A robust re-modification in Total Modified Whipple's Index.

ABSTRACT: In demographic research, the accuracy of the reported ages in surveys and censuses is a persistently important issue. The common indices developed and used to examine the quality of age data are Whipple, Myers, Bachi's, modified Whipple, and the total modified Whipple's index. The most commonly used and simplest to compute index is the original Whipple's index proposed by George Chandler Whipple. It is a summary measure used to check age heaping on ages ending with digits 0 and 5. The other summary index is the total modified Whipple index by Spoorenberg. A robust modification is proposed for the total modified Whipple index. This modification, based on the method of the original Whipple index for all digits (0, 1, 2 … 9), is simple, robust, and easy to interpret. The proposed index is use

SUBMITTER: Rasul A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12373282 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature