Session 6:
Measurement issues and survey instruments
Chair: Tineke Fokkema, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Making them count, counting the mentally ill, evidence from the Kintampo demographic health system Edward Adiibokah, Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC)
Desires for children and their measurement in low fertility settings Christoph Buehler, Leibniz Universität Hannover ; Joshua R. Goldstein, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Saskia Hin, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Measuring sexual identity in US health surveys Virginia S. Cain, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
Using respondents’ uncertainty scores to mitigate hypothetical bias in community-based health insurance studies Hermann Donfouet, University of Rennes I ; Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, University of Nantes ; Eric Malin, University of Rennes I
Evaluating the measurement reliabilities of developmental idealism measures Arland Thornton, University of Michigan ; Georgina Binstock, Centro de Estudios de Población (CENEP) y CONICET, Argentina ; Linda Young-DeMarco, University of Michigan ; Colter Mitchell, Princeton University ; Kathryn M. Yount, Emory University ; Yu Xie, University of Michigan
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