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... 3 in most cases. This is a predictable result because the models have, in essence, the same incidence rate until age T and then differ either in the slope of the “vitality” function or the intensity of stress events in ... See full document

... To address the possibility of racial incongruities across data systems, we calculate fertility rates within a single data system. Using a single data system for the numerator and the denominator overcomes the potential ... See full document

... ISO 8601 designates durations through the prefix 'P', followed by a string of counts and designators for the time units used, the basic format being 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS'. The standard gives the example of a duration of two ... See full document

... up 10 percentage points to the figures published with the 1990 definition, which would make China 50% urban by the year 2030 according to our projection trends (instead of 40% using the 1990 ... See full document

... Catalano and Bruckner (2006) use a similar de-trending approach to study the association between cohort’s early life and later mortality. They use national level historical mortality data for Sweden, Denmark, and England ... See full document

... This paper shows that under a constant immigration rate of 0.35%, microsimulation models project a declining labour force population for both Austria and Canada between 2011 and 2061. They project that the active ... See full document

... Figure 12, that the thirty-six month difference is indeed the convolution of waiting times in the additional transitions in the bottom panel, which requires estimates of all these transition rates and is thereby ... See full document

... To test the dynamic nature of the temperature–sexual activity relationship, we ran a model including not only the weather indicators on the diary day (t) but also the weather indicators one day before (t–1). It is ... See full document

... example, for education, comparative cross-sectional analyses show that not holding a high school diploma or having some college compared to holding a high school diploma changes the probability of in-work poverty by ... 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

... We used data from the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, the National Prisoner Statistics, and the National Corrections Reporting Program (Bureau of Justice Statistics 2014a, 2014b, 2014c) to estimate the crude and ... See full document

... Birth registration is a fundamental right that affords children the opportunity to be documented and establish their nationality. Unfortunately, this right is denied to many children, especially in less developed ... See full document

... This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, ... See full document

... We identify distinct scales of global aggregation, and in particular, we show that for the values of disparate neighbor comfort threshold used by Schelling, the striking global aggrega- [r] ... See full document

... As compared to second-generation women, third-generation women in the earlier period had a higher risk of a recent birth and higher cumulative fertility as compared to non-Hispanic whi[r] ... See full document

... I thus feel that Chandra Sekar’s ‘exclusive effect’ given by equation (1.7) can be considered a viable alternative to the present United Nation’s (1985) formula for the following reasons[r] ... See full document

... Women who in 1957 planned to work indefinitely or in a career were not significantly more likely than other women to choose part-time employment over being out of the labor force in 19[r] ... See full document

... Encyclopedia, 2004; Lee and Moss, 1995; Haynes, 1991). Bulls (males) are sexually mature at about 11 to 12 years of age, but they typically are not allowed to mate until around age 30 years. Elephant cows ... See full document

... Figure 21, plots second and third birth risks standardised to the 1989 level and shows a shift in the expected direction. The overall intensity of childbearing increased during the early 1990s; this increase was more ... See full document

... On the other hand, immigrants coming from developed countries are quite different, with high levels of education, significant proportions of people who have come to Spain to retire, an[r] ... See full document