Changing lifestyles bring shifts in household composition which affect male-female proportions in the Troldahl-Carter method of random selection of respondents within a household. Five field tests are reported using the 1964 Troldahl-Carter technique and 14 tests using modifications of it which produce better results in today's adult population.
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