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This page provides general documentation of issues in data clean up.

Issue

Number of population of certain ages (usually early ages) is underestimated/ overestimated.

Background

In some countries, such as Taiwan, parents do not report their children until the children have name, which may take several years.

Detection

Check the survival rates by single age group. If the values are more than one, there may be some problem.

Remedy:

Comments about Under-estimate Population data remedy: