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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJPDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>International Journal of Population Data Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title>IJPDS</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2399-4908</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Swansea University</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2914</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">9:5:421</article-id>
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        <article-title>The Demographic Frame</article-title>
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            <surname>Ortman</surname>
            <given-names initials="J">Jennifer</given-names>
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          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="affil-1">1</xref>
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      <aff id="affil-1"><label>1</label><institution>Census Bureau</institution></aff>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>18</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>9</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <elocation-id>2914</elocation-id>
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          <license-p>This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <self-uri xlink:href="https://ijpds.org/article/view/2914">This article is available from the IJPDS website at: https://ijpds.org/article/view/2914</self-uri>
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    <p>The Demographic Frame is a comprehensive, secure, access-controlled database of person-level data consisting of demographic, social, and economic characteristics of individuals derived from census, survey, administrative, and third-party data sources. The Demographic Frame is facilitating innovations in data collection, processing, analyses, and products for census and survey programs.</p>
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