Data quality of Census 2022
Budlender J. and Thornton, A. (forthcoming) Undocumented and unusual household imputation in the 2022 South African Census. Forthcoming SALDRU working paper.
We uncover and describe major data quality problems with the Census 2022 10% microdata file. This work has been presented at the 2025 Economics Society of South Africa Biennial Conference.
Data quality of Census 2022
Thornton A. (forthcoming) Household count information in the 2022 South African Census. Forthcoming DataFirst Technical Paper.
Following on from recent work suggesting household headship rates in the 2022 South African Census might be too low, this work focuses on the outcome of projected household counts specifically which are a combination of both headship rates and a population model.
Data quality of Census 2022
Thornton A. (forthcoming) How many married people are there in South Africa in 2022?. Forthcoming DataFirst Technical Paper.
Following on from recent work suggesting potential mismeasurement of the marital status distribution in the 2022 South African Census, this work aims to project the number of married people in South Africa in 2022 from Census 2011 using a cohort component model and administrative data on marriage and divorce.