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... Notwithstanding the improved and expanding infrastructure among which was the increase of the number and types of schools for Europeans as well as native people by the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans preferred ... See full document

... In the expressions above, 𝑑 𝑡 represents the monthly death series, which predicts or is predicted by 𝑏 𝑡 , the monthly birth series, and 𝑠 𝑡 , the monthly stillbirth series. 𝑘 is the number of time lags or leads between ... See full document

... least 12 months. This means that persons who stayed in Poland for at least 12 months were included in the resident population and persons who were staying abroad for at least 12 months were excluded ... See full document

... The methods of Samata are detailed elsewhere (Krishnan et al. 2010; Rocca et al. 2009). Briefly, female field staff recruited and enrolled 744 women via community outreach and through government primary health centers in ... See full document

... We use discrete-time event history analysis in a multilevel framework to estimate children’s risk of dying by covariates at the three levels. The event in this study is a child’s death. The length of time represents how ... See full document

... The estimated mortality adjustments tend to be between 1.0 and 2.0 (15 of 28). There is only one adjustment factor less than 1.0 (BGB for Liberia), though there are several larger than 2.0 (12 in total, though 3 ... See full document

... The rates, means and standard errors of each of the independent variables are presented in terms of the ethnicity variable (Table 1). Of the 7,851 women who are included in the analysis in the 2002 period (infecund ... See full document

... We apply APC models to data on human cancer incidence rates in different countries and time periods. The data are provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in seven volumes (IARC 1965 - 1997). ... See full document

... In order to test our hypotheses on interviewers (H3 and H4) we will concentrate our monitoring on interviewers with ten or more interviews, to get enough variance for our tests and models. Furthermore, a large number of ... See full document

... Under an ideal scenario, all pupils who would enter school do so at the official age of school entry, then progress smoothly without grade repetition. If this were the case, then one could easily infer a student’s grade ... See full document

... This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare reports on first sexual encounters between a standard survey and an in-depth interview.. A [r] ... See full document

... I show that the alternative measure proposed by Bongaarts and Feeney, called “tempo-adjusted” life expectancy, is exactly equivalent in its generalized form to a measure proposed by bo[r] ... See full document

... Two micro-samples of the 1990 Chinese Census have circulated in China and abroad. The first, in order of creation, is a one percent sample of rural administrative villages (xingzheng cun) and urban neighborhoods known as ... See full document

... Postponement of childbearing was in progress from the cohorts of around 1940 to those of around 1970 in all birth orders, and has apparently come to a halt, at least as far as data are available, among the cohorts of the ... See full document

... Previously, we emphasized the role of education in the reduction of fertility in Albania (Falkingham and Gjonça 2001), but we were unable to quantify this effect. Figure 4 shows clearly the difference in fertility ... See full document

... Decomposition of a difference in life expectancies may identify ages at which the difference originates in mortality differences, or may identify ages at which the difference results i[r] ... See full document

... Drawing on recent work in this area (Arulampalam & Bhalotra 2006), this study ex- amines the causal process triggered by the death of an older sibling that in turn increases the risk of death of the next child in the ... See full document

... There is also a degree of arbitrariness in several of the sexual behaviour parameters that have been chosen: e.g., the proportion of the population in the high risk group, the average [r] ... See full document

... From the point of view of modeling mortality levels across countries, a Bayesian approach of- fers an intuitive way to share information across different countries and time periods, and [r] ... See full document

... Women’s employment increases their independence and, as a result, the risk of marital disruption, whether by overthrowing traditional marriage norms, by facilitating divorce[r] ... See full document