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Residency Testing. Estimating the True Population Size of Estonia

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  • Tiit Ene-Margit

    (University of Tartu, Faculty of Science and Technology, Estonia)

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The number of residents or population size is important for all countries. Nowadays in many countries a series of registers have been created, which can be used for assessing the population size. The residency index is a tool created for estimating the under- and over-coverage of population census and calculation of proper population size. For this aim the concept of a sign of life – a binary variable depending on register i, person j and year k has been introduced showing if the person was active in the register in a given year. The weighted sum of signs of life indicates the probability that the person belongs to the set of residents in a given year. To improve the stability of the index a linear combination of the previous value of the index and the sum of signs of life is used. Necessary parameters were estimated using empirical data.

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  • Tiit Ene-Margit, 2017. "Residency Testing. Estimating the True Population Size of Estonia," Statistics in Transition New Series, Polish Statistical Association, vol. 18(2), pages 211-226, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:stintr:v:18:y:2017:i:2:p:211-226:n:7
    DOI: 10.21307/stattrans-2016-067
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