Session 2205
Flash Session: Innovations and Challenges in Large-Scale Demographic Population-Based Surveys

Chair: Anne H. Gauthier, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

1. Producing Official Statistics for and about New Zealand’s Rainbow PopulationDigby Carter, Statistics New Zealand.

2. Role of Interviewer Characteristics on Underreporting of Traditional and Short-Term Contraceptive MethodsRupalee Chauhan, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).

3. Exploring a Triple System Estimator to Support Official Population EstimationJames Chipperfield, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Peta Darby, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Claire Clarke, Australian Bureau of Statistics; John Power, Australian Bureau of Statistics.

4. The Quality of Anthropometric Data and Investigator Roles in India’s National Family Health SurveyLaxmi Kant Dwivedi, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Srei Chanda, IPE Global; Somnath Jana, PhD Research Scholar; Anjali Bansal, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).

5. Mobile Phone Survey Estimates of Perinatal Mortality in Malawi: A Comparison of Data from Truncated and Full Pregnancy HistoriesGeorges Reniers, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Julio E. Romero-Prieto, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Michael Chasukwa, Institute of Public Opinion and Research; Funny Muthema, Institute of Public Opinion and Research; Sarah Walters, .; Bruno Masquelier, Louvain University (UCL); Jethro Banda, Malawi Epidemiology Intervention Research Unit; Emmanuel Souza, University of Malawi; Boniface Dulani, Institute of Public Opinion and Research.

6. Recent Challenges and Innovations in Panel Surveys: Insights from the U.S. Panel Study of Income DynamicsNarayan Sastry, University of Michigan.

7. Representative Sampling off the Rural Road: Lessons from a Sampling Design and Survey Implementation Effort in RwandaStuart Sweeney, University Of California, Santa Barbara; Jessica Marter-Kenyon, University of Georgia; Sophia Arabadjis, City University of New York.

8. A Peek under the Hood: What It Actually Takes to Conduct a DHSKristen Wares, Office of Population and Health, USAID; Apoorva Jadhav, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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