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... If we fail to account for military deaths and troops mobilized during war, and use intercensal survival to estimate population size based on the standard assumption that “error” is dis[r] ... See full document

... own-children method is that, at a minimum, it only requires information on age, sex, and relation to the head of household to estimate the period TFR. Because of its simplicity, the method is recommended for countries ... See full document

... i.e. 15-19 year-old women, increased in all the 10-year periods ...the 15-19 age group increased among the birth cohort of 1955-59 and subsequently reached a new, higher ... See full document

... Tables A-1 to 3 show the annual change in ACLE for each decade of the twentieth century, and its decomposition, for three countries: England and Wales, Norway and Switzerland. The first column shows time t, the midpoint ... See full document

... In contrast, sex differences in mortality from intentional and unintentional injuries declined from the early 1960s to mid-1990s for both African Americans and whites at ages 15-64 (Tables 2, 3 and 4). The more ... See full document

... Analyses use the 2002 cycle of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), which interviewed 7,643 women about their union and fertility history. Respondents were also surveyed about their use of contraception, ... See full document

... In model I the mortality risk ratios for birth order and preceding birth interval are in the expected direction. Births of order six or higher with short preceding birth intervals have the highest mortality risk. Infants ... See full document

... For precise computation of the average age of infant death it is necessary to have either the aggregate distribution of deaths by age in great detail (e.g., days), or, at a minimum, in[r] ... See full document

... age 15 as the start of the observational period would strongly limit sample selection given that only 55 respondents would have been ...age 15 instead of time of completion of the highest level of education ... See full document

... Despite the fact that Denmark is a small country, historically there have been fairly consistent regional differences in fertility rates. We apply the statistical age-period- cohort model to include the effect of these ... See full document

... Figure 3, which shows the variations of the same rates every two months among all children under 5 years old over the entire period, shows that measles occurred in the area under study only in epidemics with ... See full document

... We also asked about some supplementary characteristics that are not registered by IUSSP, and which may shed some additional light on the character of demographers. First of all, the type of work which most respondents ... See full document

... Cross country analyses have shown a positive and significant association of change in fertility and socioeconomic development (Bongaarts and Watkins 1996). The mean predicted change in TFR due to change in female ... See full document

... wages 15 years after the second birth using Swedish register data and instrumenting for birth spacing using ...over 15 years, an increased probability of returning to the labor market between births, ... See full document

... Similar issues can be found with questions about fertility, in which researchers expect a clear-cut distinction between biological and social parenthood that may not correspond to loca[r] ... See full document

... The contribution by Yahirun and Hamplová (2014, SC19‒5) extends existing research by focusing on variations in intergenerational contact between married, cohabiting, and single persons across 15 European ... 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

... Even the striking waves in Swedish period fertility are smoothed out in a plot of the corresponding mean number of children ever born to the birth cohorts of women that contributed to [r] ... See full document

... For cold-blooded animals life runs more slowly when temperatures are lower. In particular, the trajectory of age-specific death rates is stretched out over a longer period of time at lower vs. higher temperatures (Mair, ... See full document

... The finding that these three measures differ substantially from the conventional period life expectancy when mortality changes over time is consistent with theoretical analysis by Bong[r] ... See full document