EVALUATION OF THE AGE AND SEX REPORTING IN THE 2016 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS

Evaluation of population census is performed to measure the errors in the reporting of age and sex in Population and Housing Census. Whereas age and sex are two basic characteristics of any population, evaluating them is the first prerequisite for demographic analysis. Implementing demographic techniques, this paper probes the errors in reporting of age and sex of the population in Iran and features the continuous improvement in reporting of these two characteristics in population censuses. The quality of age and sex reporting in the 2016 Population and Housing Census is close to the quality of these data in the 2011, but it is much better than the 2006 Census and all previous censuses. Decreasing the gap between the men and improvement in quality of age and sex reports in rural areas are clearly featured, although the quality of age and sex report in rural areas is not acceptable yet.