Accuracy Standards of Age Data for Residents of Wasit Governorate

Abstract

This study addresses the errors that accompany census data, focusing on population census data from 1987 to 1997, which used several criteria to measure the accuracy of age data, namely (Myers scale, Weibel scale, Bashi scale, United Nations Secretariat scale), and focuses on two types of methods used.In measuring the accuracy of ages for the residents of the governorate, which is as follows, the Myers standard scale, as it became clear that the degree of accumulation for the governorate in 1987 amounted to (26.4), while its value decreased to (6.6) for the year 1997, which indicates that there is a degree of improvement in the age guides than it is. As for the scale of the United Nations Secretariat, it exceeded the limit at which age and gender data are accurate, which is less than (20), and it fell within the range in which age and gender data are inaccurate, as the Wasit Governorate in 1987 reached its value (52.3) and increased in 1997 to (53.7) It can be said that, in general, all measures indicate the presence of errors exceeding the permissible limit.