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Table 1 Countries for analysis and years of survey with proportion of ages with terminal digit 0 or 5

From: Trends in Demographic and Health Survey data quality: an analysis of age heaping over time in 34 countries in Sub Saharan Africa between 1987 and 2015

Country	Year of survey
Country	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Benin											0.23					0.32					0.36					0.34
Burkina Faso								0.25						0.27				0.27							0.26
Burundi		0.23																							0.26
Cameroon						0.26							0.26						0.26							0.26
Chad												0.36							0.34											0.41
Comoros											0.26																0.28
Congo																				0.23							0.21
Cote dIvoire									0.26					0.25													0.23
DRC																						0.23							0.23
Ethiopia															0.30					0.37						0.35
Gabon															0.23												0.20
Gambia																												0.28
Ghana			0.31					0.28					0.28					0.25					0.27						0.25
Guinea														0.32						0.36							0.33
Kenya				0.27				0.24					0.24					0.23					0.25						0.24
Lesotho																			0.21					0.22					0.21
Liberia	0.27																					0.24						0.24
Madagascar							0.24					0.24							0.23					0.25
Malawi							0.23								0.25				0.24						0.23
Mali		0.23									0.31					0.31					0.34							0.34
Mozambique												0.24						0.23								0.23
Namibia							0.22								0.22							0.20						0.21
Niger							0.36						0.33								0.37						0.37
Nigeria					0.44													0.35					0.36					0.35
Rwanda							0.23								0.24					0.22			0.23		0.22					0.22
Sao Tome and Principe																								0.20
Senegal	0.23						0.28					0.23								0.27						0.29	0.27		0.26
Sierra Leone																							0.37					0.34
Swaziland																					0.21
Tanzania							0.25				0.24			0.26						0.25					0.25
Togo			0.27										0.28																0.29
Uganda				0.25						0.26						0.26					0.24					0.25
Zambia							0.20				0.20					0.21						0.22							0.22
Zimbabwe			0.23						0.23					0.22							0.21					0.22

Figure within table indicate proportion of responses ending in 0 or 5
Values within table above 0.20 indicate digit preference for 0 or 5
Empty spaces within table indicate survey not carried out in that year

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