A refined estimator of measures of location of the age at first marriage

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ID10969795
AuthorsT James Trussell (Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume13
Issue2
Pages225-233
Publication date1976-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2060802
PMID1278581
OpenAlexW2157556358
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Because of bias of unknown sign and extent introduced by age misreporting when calculating the singulate mean age of marriage in the usual manner, Van de Walle has suggested a fairly robust estimator based on stable population structure. Unfortunately not much is known about the properties of this estimator. Various demographers have argued informally that it indeed estimates the SMAM; others feel that it instead estimates the mean age of marriage in a cohort, the mean age of marriage in the stable population, or the singulate median age of marriage. In this paper the properties of this estimator are examined. Further, extensions of the Van de Walle estimator based on regression are shown to be significantly superior to the estimator alone

Bias of an estimator · Econometrics · Estimator · Minimum-variance unbiased estimator · Population · Sociology · Statistics · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Mathematics

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