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SUBMITTER: Hillson R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503693 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hillson Roger R Alejandre Joel D JD Jacobsen Kathryn H KH Ansumana Rashid R Bockarie Alfred S AS Bangura Umaru U Lamin Joseph M JM Stenger David A DA
PloS one 20150715 7
There is a need for better estimators of population size in places that have undergone rapid growth and where collection of census data is difficult. We explored simulated estimates of urban population based on survey data from Bo, Sierra Leone, using two approaches: (1) stratified sampling from across 20 neighborhoods and (2) stratified single-stage cluster sampling of only four randomly-sampled neighborhoods. The stratification variables evaluated were (a) occupants per individual residence, ( ...[more]