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... In these Swedish data, the entropy measure g (for ages above 30) is close to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around 13. The gradual ... See full document

... The final paper in the collection, the contribution by Tai, Baxter, and Hewitt (2014, SC19–9), examines relationship satisfaction of those in LAT relationships compared to cohabitation and marriage from a ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows cohort and period LE, CAL, and ACLE for times 0 through 200 years based on equation (9) and our chosen parameter values for A, b, and c. All four measures are represented by virtually straight lines ... See full document

... All these changes influenced demographic developments in Bulgaria. Before 1989, the demographic indicators of family and fertility behaviour in Bulgaria were rather stable. Philipov (2001) characterized the fertility ... See full document

... Women in that cohort faced higher relative risks during each season than in any other cohort, reach- ing a maximum in winter with a relative risk of 31 percent in winter compared to summ[r] ... See full document

... Using historical fertility data (retrospective fertility histories in China’s 1988 Two- per-Thousand National Sample Survey of Fertility and Contraception), this paper investigates the theoretical prediction that, ... See full document

... information on the time to first birth (n = 23) or if the conception of the child occurred before obtaining the degree (n = 3,956); the proportion of cases deleted for the latter reason varied by country. In most of the ... See full document

... With the rising divorce rate in Korea, one of the main concerns regarding the use of the own-children method is whether it satisfies the assumption that children aged 14 or younger are living with their respective ... See full document

... later. 9 We found that although women who worked in a more sociable setting were less likely to want to become parents within the next three years, they were no more likely to want to have a child in 11 or more ... See full document

... The survey also asked respondents if they currently made use of any information to provide guidance about forecast uncertainty: 61% replied yes and 30% no (with 9% responding that they did not know). Of those who ... See full document

... Prior to the implementation of ICD-10, the US NCHS conducted a comparison study in which a sample of death records filed in 1996 was coded according to both the ICD-9 and ICD-10 classifications. From the cross ... See full document

... Figure 2(a) and Figure 2(b) show the same Lowess estimates for under-five mortality. Absolute convergence is much stronger for mortality than for fertility, with a nearly linear relationship between initial levels of ... See full document

... Senegalese migration to Europe has its roots in colonialism. The first migrations resulted from recruitment efforts by the French army and administration during colonial times. Starting in the 1950s, rapidly expanding ... See full document

... The population at Bandafassi entered the immunization era in an abrupt manner. As the population observatory had been operating for several years when the vaccination campaign was started in 1987, the situation, almost ... See full document

... Homicide, intentional and unintentional injuries, and HIV/AIDS in the most recent period also accounted for most of the fluctuations in sex differences in all-cause mortality between 1[r] ... See full document

... This article and previously published studies about tempo effects on mortality and on the theory of heterogeneous populations have contributed to theoretical ... See full document

... In addition to parish register data, this study utilises other available data sets. These include the Population and Housing Censuses of 1991 and 2001, and the Namibia Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) of 1992 and ... See full document

... But even if returning Mexican families face barriers to school enrollment, should we expect the same association in Mexico between duration of residence and school enrollment as observ[r] ... 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

... Even if we consider only the last 30 years of this period, when we examine the age- and sex-specific gains to the average life lived, it is evident that there are present demographic pro[r] ... See full document