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... To summarize, the bias increases with decreasing absolute cluster size, given their relative size. Conversely, given the size of the PSU population, the bias increases with decreasing relative size (% extracted). The ... See full document

... Although demographic rates are social facts of the most compelling kind, although “culture” and “population” offer contrasting concepts of social structure, and although the theoretica[r] ... See full document

... the article I include, where appropriate, a selection of the research results in order to demonstrate the reasons for and effectiveness of the methods I employed to reach certain ... See full document

... Figure 1 shows evident clustering of post- socialist countries, which have both low fertility and low levels of gender equity (which is also likely related to the GDI’s focus on life expectancy and standard of ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... See full document

... Table 1 presents the distribution of adults aged 18-79 in France according to their couple ...at 1%, while the proportion of people having a second residence where they live alone is estimated at 3% (not ... See full document

... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... To estimate the effect of a given parameter on the probability of upward occupational mobility across various labor market sectors, multinomial logit models were estimated in which the[r] ... See full document

... (2) In Figures 8 and 9, e 30 (t) appears to have a dynamics of its own, as one would expect from an indicator reflecting changes in the epidemiological environment of a population. CAL 30 , in comparison, appears as a ... See full document

... where S x y ( , ) was taken to be | x − y | α (symmetric) and α was taken as 1 and 1.5 in the two models. In particular, S x x ( , ) = 0 . In their model c represented country, not cohort, and it could therefore ... See full document

... The multivariate analysis shows that, for men, these observed differences in the final number of children by degree of exposure to unemployment or short-term employment are not simply linked to structural ... See full document

... metropolitan areas were chosen from each of the five quintiles of ordered sales prices. The selected metropolitan areas ranged from Toledo, Ohio, with the lowest median sales price of $92,000, to San Francisco, with a ... See full document

... The first term on the right-hand side of (5), the average change, might be called the direct component of change; it captures the level-1 effect. The second component, the covariance term, is the structural or ... See full document

... following consequences: (a) they would stay young longer; (b) they would have a very close emotional relationship with their children; (c) their standing in their social network would increase; (d) their adult children ... See full document

... Knowledge on health inequalities, based on solid and internationally comparable evidence, is obviously of key importance for the understanding of the unprecedented health crisis faced by the Russian population. ... See full document

... As indicated early the data for this study is drawn from the 1998 Kenya Demography and Health Survey (KDHS). The KDHS was conducted to collect data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, and ... See full document

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... See full document

... The binary regressions for the main variables indicated that, after other factors are controlled for, mothers who were older and whose youngest child was older were less likely to report the intention to have another ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document