@inbook{3f887d209d5f426da7672d8acbed0c0f,
title = "Age Reporting in the CLHLS: A Re-assessment",
abstract = "Age reporting among respondents in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey is examined, using the first round of data collected in 1998. The sample design limits the use of traditional methods for assessing the accuracy of age reporting, and innovative methods are adopted. Only the sample aged 100+ is representative of the population at that age. The age structure of centenarians is compared with populations with good age reporting, demonstrating age exaggeration. At ages 80+, constructed estimates of age at childbearing show systematic effects consistent with age exaggeration, particularly in Guangxi and among ethnic minorities. Increasing age exaggeration with age is present in these data, which is at least partly the result of the age structure. These findings have implications for substantive analyses, and further examination of the quality of these data is needed.",
keywords = "Age exaggeration, Age heaping, Age misreporting, Age reporting, Age validation, Centenarian, China, Cluster sample, Data quality, Digit preference, England and Wales, Ethnic minorities, Guangxi, Han majority, Inaccuracy, Japan, Jiangsu, Large sample size, Longevity, Mean age at childbearing, Myers Index, Non-response, Oldest-old, One Per Thousand Fertility Survey, Proportion of centenarians, Re-assessment, Regional variation, Sample design, Shanghai, Sweden, Whipple{\textquoteright}s Index, Yao, Zhuang",
author = "Heather Booth and Zhongwei Zhao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2008, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_5",
language = "English",
series = "Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "79--98",
booktitle = "Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis",
address = "Germany",
}