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... antecedents. 10 Furthermore, since their creation, the common lands have worked as collective units, where the common land authorities have managed the local resources and have had the responsibility of coping ... See full document

... increase comes from an increase in the ‘None’ status (Table 1). For urban men, the ‘None’ status comprises about 3% of the young adult years in 1982 and rises to almost 15% in 2005. The rise of the ‘None’ status is ... See full document

... Similarly, age and sex distributions of the age of partners were derived from the same survey. Mean and standard deviation of partners’ age were fitted for each age and sex pair, from which normal distributions were ... See full document

... The majority of these near-poor families are working families still struggling to meet their basic needs but at the same time facing reduced benefits and increased taxes (Note 5). It is [r] ... See full document

... purposes and with at least one per thousand of total mentioned causes among men or women aged 65 and over (see Table A-1 in the Appendix). These are organized as 15 major groups, corresponding largely to ICD-10 ... See full document

... the 10% level) The time-specific nature of the added burden of a young child on women’s total domestic workload may explain why the woman views this (temporary) allocation as fair yet the man views it as unfair to ... See full document

... Compared to other western countries trends in the levels of birth orders in the United States were more pronounced (Table 1, Figures 1-4 and 7). Total cohort fertility rates of all birth orders were increasing among the ... See full document

... to 10 (totally ...(amount); 10) home; 11) neighbourhood; 12) feeling of belonging to the local community; 13) feeling safe; 14) health; 15) relationship with their partner; 16) relationship with ... See full document

... bank clerk approach, although it is a characteristic frequently referred to in the demographic literature (Greene & Biddlecom, 2000; Lesthaeghe, 1998). This accounting approach spent much time dealing with bias in ... See full document

... about 10% of in-union women of reproductive age were using a modern method in 2013, and contraceptive prevalence has not meaningfully changed since 2003 (National Population Commission and ICF International ... See full document

... This study explores the change of married women’s sex preference for children in Taiwan since 1990, finding that there was a substantial decline of son preference and rise of “gender i[r] ... See full document

... In the case of a constant annual increase in life expectancy at birth, the prospective median age derived from period life tables always lies above that created using cohort life table[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

... H3: If all else is held constant, the association between favourable labour market experiences and earlier transitions to first marriage will be stronger for Egyptian men than for Egyp[r] ... 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

... Cancer among women is not generally more harmful to a marriage than cancer among men, as suggested by some investigators, but there are certain gender differences: whereas colorectal c[r] ... See full document

... Net to the characteristics of the women, the higher education level of the father has a negative effect on marriage and a positive impact on cohabitation; the effect is stronger in centr[r] ... See full document

... an article which reviewed the historical research to date and combined it with contemporary statistical data, Reher (1998) has reaffirmed the validity of the original macro-regional distinction, and shown that a ... See full document

... Applying this line of reasoning to our study on the importance of parents and peers in first union timing, we would expect that in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden[r] ... See full document

... This study has investigated transformations in partnership formation, i.e., the timing and type of first union across generations of immigrants pertaining to the main origin groups in[r] ... See full document