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... + 1 does not reflect well the new mortality conditions emerging during that year, because it is different from the constant level of life expectancy at birth that would be observed starting in year T + 2 if ... See full document

... Descriptive statistics reveal that the occupational structure of the Tartu population was dominated by manual workers, who accounted for over three-fifths of the gainfully employed; the second largest group was comprised ... See full document

... The individual-level data for the empirical analysis of immigrants’ marital choices is drawn from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey (NIS), released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. This partly ... See full document

... economic downturn. We first note that shifts between 2009 and 2015 in the overall TFRs of countries differed considerably. The TFRs of the total population declined in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, the United ... See full document

... Based on the sample and shown in Figures 6 through 8, within and between sectors, noteworthy distributional differences emerge that are linked to the constructed linguistic groups. Consistently, though, native ... 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

... Overall, the differences between men and women are small, except at ages 25 to 40, when men are more likely to commute than women (the differences found between young boys and girls are unstable with age, and need to be ... 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

... 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

... approximately 1/10 of the PSUs that have the largest within-PSU variance in education - the precise selection criterion being a standard deviation larger than ... See full document

... conclusions: 1) Findings from two ethnographic studies of low fertility can be compared and generalised if such concepts as ‘comparison’ and ‘generalisation’ are understood in the anthropological ... 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

... 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

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... 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

... Time 1 refers to the start-point of each two-year interval in which a dynamics of disability may occur, whereas Time 2 refers to the endpoint of each two-year ...Time 1 in this study could be the interview ... See full document

... Figure 1, which uses fertility estimates published by Vital Statistics, makes clear that TFRs for AI/AN women are now lower than the TFRs for both white and black women (Martin et ... See full document

... Other studies have shown that much of the difference in mortality between highly and poorly educated men in Russia is due to the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the latter group and, to a lesser extent, ... See full document

... Figure 1 we present the spatial distribution of the two practices of ancestor worship that are examined in this article: having a family genealogy and visiting the gravesite of ... See full document