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Session 5:
Innovative Approaches to Demographic Data Collection and Methods

Thursday, April 30
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Mackinac East
Chair: Peter D. Brandon, Australian National University
Discussant: Leah K. VanWey, Brown University

1. A Mixed Method Approach to Sample Design  •  Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Allan Parnell, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities; Philip McDaniel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2. Responsive Survey Design, Demographic Data Collection and Models of Demographic Behavior  •  William G. Axinn, University of Michigan; Cynthia F. Link, University of Michigan

3. Statistical Tests of the Assumptions behind Respondent Driven Sampling in a Survey of Female Sex Workers in Shanghai  •  William Whipple Neely, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Giovanna Merli, Duke University; Feng Tian, University of Wisconsin at Madison

4. Fertility Patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparing Own-Children Method and Birth History Estimates  •  Michael Levin, Harvard University; Collins Opiyo, University of Pennsylvania

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