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... The pyramid depicting Gambian nationals (some of whom might be born in Spain, mostly children) and Gambian-born individuals shows several notable patterns. One is typical for Africans [r] ... See full document

... Counter to expectations, we find those with traditional housework arrangements to form three clusters, not two. We predicted and find two clusters where traditional housework arrangements are either contested or not. The ... See full document

... The framework’s second proposition (P2) posits an interaction between changes in fer- tility and family structure. The question here is whether the impact of a dual transition (in family size and structure) is the mere ... See full document

... In the past, mortality changes did not correspond exactly to the simple Gompertz model discussed in Section 3, but nonetheless prospective ages computed using period and cohort life tables were quite similar. In this ... See full document

... Uganda for instance. Thirdly, and most important, Zambia has conducted in 2001 a detailed Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), which includes all the parameters needed for the model: patterns of fertility, level of ... See full document

... When class is specified only when women are participating in the market, women in the lowest class had the greatest decline in relative risks during the economic crisis (0.32 vs. the n[r] ... See full document

... In this descriptive paper, I use the latest-available data from the National Family Health Survey, 2015–2016 (NFHS-4) to advance understanding of the association be- tween neonatal survival and facility birth. The ... See full document

... last 12 months, how often did it happen that you had trouble paying bills?” (2) “During the last 12 months, how often did it happen that you did not have enough money to buy food, clothes, or other things ... See full document

... In a more thorough evaluation of the above results one can mark that for the year 2000, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Italy show a slight hump at early-ages fertility rates. This new pattern of enhanced early-age fertility ... See full document

... Given that the population of immigrants under study is selected, we certainly over-estimate the adaptation of partnership behaviors among the immigrants. Individuals who are single upon arriving migrate on their own ... See full document

... Among ordered status combinations, fast growth occurs among stay-at-home mothers. In 1982 and 1990 about 4% of urban women are in MP status; in 2005 the percentage triples to 12%. This trend is consistent with the ... See full document

... formal questionnaires are unreliable for a variety of reasons. Although lip service is paid to anthropological methods 12 , the theoretical concepts that inform anthropology are rarely considered in demographic ... See full document

... To take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... See full document

... In fact, a high quality of the housing stock in combination with difficult access to housing for young people might offer the worst opportunities for having children?. Access to housi[r] ... See full document

... (2) How does the degree of integration in the host country shape differences in the return migration intentions of members of the sending country‘s ethnic minori[r] ... See full document

... A slight increasing tendency could be detected in the 1950s and early 1960s cohorts with around 35 percent of women with second births having a third one, and close to 25 percent of 3-[r] ... See full document

... 2 Migratory antecedents in the south of Veracruz 288 3 Current migration: destinations and determinants 293 3.1 Method, data and variables 294 3.2 The determinants of migration[r] ... See full document

... A key question for our analysis is whether there remains any direct effect of social, economic and cultural variables on the duration of the second birth interval in Egypt after contro[r] ... See full document

... Quality of child health care and under-five mortality in Zambia: A case study of two districts in Luapula Province.. Augustus Kasumpa Kapungwe 1.[r] ... See full document

... We find that relationships between TFR and widely used social, economic, and policy- related factors (rural Hukou, ethnic minority, female education, net migration rate, poor living stan[r] ... See full document