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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Most frequent questionnaire paths: IPUMS International Malawi 2008 Census sample dataset

From: On the logical structure of census and survey questionnaires

No.

Section 1

Section 2

S3

S4

S5

S6

Section 7

Number

1

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

00000 000

0000 0000

00

0000 0000

132,923

2

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

11111 111

1101 0000

00

0000 0000

117,789

3

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1000 0111

11

0000 0000

109,360

4

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

11111 000

0000 0000

00

0000 0000

100,687

5

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1000 0111

11

1111 1111

62,701

6

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

11111 111

1101 0000

10

0000 0000

41,295

7

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

11111 111

1101 0000

10

1111 1111

39,547

8

1111 1110 1

0000 000000

0000 0

00000 000

0000 0000

00

0000 0000

38,430

9

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 000

1000 0111

11

1111 1111

35,078

10

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1111 0000

11

1111 1111

33,308

11

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1110 0111

11

1111 1111

31,432

12

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1110 0111

11

0000 0000

30,077

13

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1111 1000

11

1111 1111

29,159

14

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

11111 111

0000 0000

00

0000 0000

24,936

15

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 000

1000 0111

11

0000 0000

22,832

16

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 000

1110 0111

11

1111 1111

22,078

17

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 000

1111 0000

11

1111 1111

21,795

18

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1101 0000

10

0000 0000

20,355

19

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

0000 0

11111 111

1000 0111

10

0000 0000

18,662

20

1111 1110 1

1111 100000

1111 1

11111 111

1000 0111

00

0000 0000

14,268

  1. Paths are represented by their characteristic vectors, which show 1 in the ith position if the ith question is on the path and 0 otherwise. Components are grouped by the questionnaire sections shown in Fig. 4 below and within sections for readability