Thursday, June 14 / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM   •   Högbom

Session 6:
Measurement issues and survey instruments

Chair: Tineke Fokkema, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

  1. Making them count, counting the mentally ill, evidence from the Kintampo demographic health system • Edward Adiibokah, Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC)

  2. 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

  3. Measuring sexual identity in US health surveys • Virginia S. Cain, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

  4. 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

  5. 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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