[PDF] Top 20 Volume 11 - Article 9 | Pages 235–262

... In many countries population estimates are unreliable at higher ages. In this article a method for producing an independent estimate of population aged 90+ from data on deaths and population estimates at lower ... See full document

... Gender-role attitudes are measured by the two-pronged question: “What kind of family do you prefer with regard to: 1) housework, and 2) income?” 8 If a male responds that housework should mainly be the wife’s ... See full document

... Therefore we are aiming for three objectives: (1) question the complexity of children’s family environment, taking into account both the morphology of their domestic[r] ... See full document

... To conclude, a woman in 1997 has a second-birth rate different from that of a woman in 1977 for two main reasons: First, she is likely to have a higher age, because she as a young adult [r] ... See full document

... The Coale-McNeil (CM) nuptiality model is a mathematical expression of regularity in age patterns of first marriage. It is a standard demographic tool for the estimation and projection of age schedules of first marriage ... See full document

... In populations thought not to be affected by migration, the optimal strategy appears to be to apply the General Growth Balance method (fitting to the age range 5+ to 65+) to estimate c[r] ... See full document

... Empirical assessment of theory, therefore, relates not to whether a theoretical model is empirically true or false – strictly speaking all theories and models are false because they are [r] ... See full document

... All of our assumptions are based on a judgmental view. Therefore, the uncertainty surrounding future net migration in Poland is of great importance. The unpredictable pace of future economic development in Poland, ... See full document

... Preference for sons was documented by Okun (1996) in research on the fertility of Israeli Jewish females born in the countries of the Middle East. This can be treated as evidence of the presence of sex-biased attitudes ... See full document

... Microcensus 9 , an official representative population sample containing not only structural population and labour market data but also (starting in 2008) information on the total number of children a woman has in ... See full document

... Next, we computed the cross-correlation functions to statistically test and verify our observation of the 9-month lag. Figure 3 shows the cross-correlations between seasonally and trend-adjusted deaths and births ... See full document

... Such bounds could be useful in estimating life expectancy when the input of eggs or neonates can be estimated but mortality cannot be observed before late juvenile or early adult ages.. [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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... Accounting for overall score differences on the LMUP by parity, primaparous women were least likely to have used contraception at last pregnancy (item one), particularly compared to mu[r] ... See full document