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... Lagos, although clearly the Nigerian melting pot, still remains primarily a Yoruba city. The ethnic composition shows a high representation of the Yoruba people (57.1 percent). The Igbo constitute the second largest ... See full document

... We measure respondents’ educational attainment in two ways. First, we take into account each respondent’s educational level. It is important to note that the East and West Germans in this cohort experienced two different ... See full document

... Our mathematical analysis of the Gompertz model remains incomplete when both parameters (the modal age at death and the growth rate of mortality with age) change in time. Our computational experiment gave clear results ... See full document

... To deal with the non-random assignment, I also controlled for covariates. For time-variant covariates, denoted by the vector W, I controlled for the elders’ number of children (1, 2, 3, 4+) and for whether elders ... See full document

... This study was intended to investigate the factors associated with the high under-five mortality in one province of Zambia. Specifically the study (a) Identifies predominant traditional cultural beliefs and perceptions ... See full document

... The objective of this paper is to reconstruct fertility levels and trends in Mongolia before 1960 in order to offer an alternative view of historical fertility change in the country. The paper opens with an overview of ... See full document

... at ages 1, 2, 3 and 4 and reaches a maximum at age 5 of 50.44, with an inverse value of 0.0198. At age 4 the central death rate is 0.0237 > 0.0199, the inverse of remaining life expectancy at age 4, whereas at ... See full document

... Within Malawi, the specific site of the study – Kayesa village, Mchinji District, in Malawi’s Central Province – has two advantages. First, it can be considered broadly representative of villages in the area. At the time ... See full document

... This paper presents a type of population pyramid that illustrates how births, deaths, and net migration have shaped a population’s age structure. Termed the components-of- change pyramid, it is described and illustrated ... See full document

... Death Distribution Methods are designed to estimate the completeness of death registration relative to population counts. The two most well-established methods are the General Growth Balance method (GGB, Brass 1975; Hill ... See full document

... after 12 years of schooling (UNESCO 2011), as constructed in ...model 2, we add control variables identified in the literature as significant in shaping migration decisions, namely age, sex, marital status, ... See full document

... over 29 for men in the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Finland, and Norway; over 25 among women in most Western European countries, and under 25 among women in most Eastern European countries) (Eurostat ... See full document

... Survival data analysis methods – Kaplan-Meier graphs for the descriptive analysis and piecewise exponential models for the multivariate analysis – are used to examine the impact over time of the occurrence of an event, ... See full document

... Two factors have therefore contributed to the increase in the heterogeneity of the Czech population since 1961: 1) widening gaps in the life expectancy of each sub-population; and 2) a diversification of the ... See full document

... Towards the middle of the twentieth century, these transitions took place close together for most people, during the late teens or early twenties. Hence, a definition of youth as starting around the mid-teens and ending ... See full document

... Ethnic disparity in the contextual factors is indicated in Table 2. Contextual variables are constructed as time-varying variables and their value represent changes in these variables over the period of study. ... See full document

... The average height of conscripts increased almost linearly over time among men in the SEDD starting with cohorts born after the 1820s (Öberg 2014b: Figure 1). The secular trend in heights in the SEDD data is similar to ... See full document

... For Hungary, our policy variable is based also on three periods but they mark much less radical policy changes than in Sweden, at least for gender relations. In the first period (from the mid-1960s to 1981), a long ... See full document

... In recent years, researchers and policy makers have become increasingly interested in the effects of migration and remittances on the development of communities of origin in developing countries (de Brauw and Rozelle ... See full document

... covers individuals who came of age during the end of the fertility decline and participated in the recovery in the early 1940s, but lived some of their reproductive years prior to the onset of the baby boom. The third ... See full document