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The use of household registration records in sampling sureys

Yung-Tai Hung
1995 / 11
Volume 2, No.2

pp.83-97
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Abstract

The study checks the accuracy of some items of the household Regis-tration records in Taiwan using data from the 1990 and the 1994 National Health Surveys and finds that the discrepancy rate between the marital status records and survey results is about 6.9%. There is also 25.6% inaccurate rate for the records of educational level. If counted by per-son, less than 90% of the people currently live in their registered households, over 10% of the people do not live in their registered households, and over 10% of the people live in places which they do not registered. If counted by household, only about 55% of the records are correct in both household registration and persons live in, other 45% are either greater or less than the registration record in terms of the number of people living in the household, or even the number is correct the persons' names do not match. This type of inaccuracy varies in different areas and also depends on the size of the household. The study also looks into the distribution of the household size using the 1990 census data and finds that it is not feasible to have a representative sample if households are selected first with equal prabability and one adult respondent is then selected within the household due to the fact that a large portion of the younger people are clustered in bigger size households which account for only a much smaller portion of the total number of the households.

Keywords

Household registration

Population de facto

Population de jure

Sampling survey

Selection within household