AFRICA: Data problems hold region back

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  • Supply of numbers
  • Quality challenges
  • Difficulties of census-taking
  • Skewed collection priorities
  • Disclosure of sources and methods
  • Under-investment in collection
  • Unfortunate consequences
  • Amelioration?

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