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Table C.8: Completeness of information on siblings
Number of sisters and brothers reported by interviewed women and completeness of age data for living
siblings and age at death (AD) and years since death (YSD) data for dead siblings, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Sisters Brothers Total
Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent
All siblings 30,861 100.0 32,621 100.0 63,481 100.0
Living 26,061 84.4 27,258 83.6 53,318 84.0
Dead 4,790 15.5 5,357 16.4 10,147 16.0
Status unknown 10 0.0 7 0.0 16 0.0
Living siblings 26,061 100.0 27,258 100.0 53,318 100.0
Age reported 26,013 99.8 27,215 99.8 53,228 99.8
Age missing 48 0.2 42 0.2 90 0.2
Dead siblings 4,790 100.0 5,357 100.0 10,147 100.0
AD and YSD reported 4,766 99.5 5,319 99.3 10,085 99.4
Missing only AD 4 0.1 9 0.2 13 0.1
Missing only YSD 2 0.0 4 0.1 7 0.1
Missing both 18 0.4 24 0.5 42 0.4
Table C.9 Indicators on data quality
Percent distribution of respondents and siblings
by year of birth, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Year of birth Respondents Siblings
Before 1950 0.0 0.7
1950-54 0.0 1.3
1955-59 0.1 3.1
1960-64 8.7 5.4
1965-69 10.6 7.7
1970-74 12.9 9.8
1975-79 11.6 10.5
1980-84 14.6 13.6
1985 or later 41.5 48.0
Total 100.0 100.0
Lower range 1,959 1,923
Upper range 1,995 2,009
Median 1,971 1,971
Number of cases 13,137 63,458
Table C.10 Sibship size and sex ratio
of siblings
Mean sibship size and sex ratio of
births, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Year of birth
of respondents
Mean
sibship
size
Sex ratio at
birth of
siblings
1955-59 5.3 80.0
1960-64 5.1 106.6
1965-69 5.2 101.2
1970-74 5.3 104.3
1975-79 5.5 105.4
1980-84 5.8 101.0
1985-89 6.2 107.9
1990-95
6.5 108.9
Total
5.8 105.7
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