Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
Chapter 5 gives an extended empirical example of the Benford agreement procedure for assessing the validity of social science data. The example uses country-level data collected and estimated by the Sea Around Us organization on the dollar values of reported and unreported fish landings from 2010 to 2016. We report Benford agreement analyses for the Sea Around Us data (1) by reporting status, (2) by decade, (3) for a large fishing region of 22 West African countries, and (4) foreach of the 22 individual countries in West Africa.
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