Indicators to Examine Quality of Large Scale Survey Data: An

Example through District Level Household and Facility Survey

Litty Mathew1, Arun Kumar Annamalai2
1= MSc. Biostatistics, ICMR-NIE , 2=Scientist C,ICMR-NIE

Background:
Large scale surveys are the main source of data pertaining to all the social and
demographic indicators, hence its quality is also of great concern. I would like to
discuss the indicators used to examine the quality of data. My area of interest is
to focus on age misreporting .In order to observe the practical consequences of
errors in a survey the DLHS IV (2015-16) survey will be used as an example data
set. It will be a replication study conducted based on DLHS-2 & DLHS-3 .This
study will compare the age misreporting in DLHS-3 and DLHS-4.
Methods:
Whipple’s and Myer’s indices will be used to identify age misreporting. GIS
software will be used for mapping the age misreporting among indian states.