A three-sample multiple-recapture approach to census population estimation with heterogeneous catchability.
"A central assumption in the standard capture-recapture approach to the estimation of the size of a closed population is the homogeneity of the 'capture' probabilities.  In this article we develop an approach that allows for varying susceptibility to capture through individual parameters using a variant of the Rasch model from psychological measurement situations. Our approach requires an additional recapture.  In the context of census undercount estimation, this requirement amounts to the use of a second independent sample or alternative data source to be matched with census and Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) data.... We illustrate [our] models and their estimation using data from a 1988 dress-rehearsal study for the 1990 census conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, which explored the use of administrative data as a supplement to the PES.  The article includes a discussion of extensions and related models."
Derroch
J N
JN
Fienberg
S E
SE
Glonek
G F
GF
Junker
B W
BW
D000569:Americas; D019352:Censuses; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States
Americas; Census; Census Methods; Data Adjustment; Data Collection; Data Sources; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Error Sources; Estimation Technics; Heterogeneity; Mathematical Model; Measurement; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Statistics; Research Methodology; Undercount; United States