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... [Note 11] In sum, the second outmigration wave probably resulted from disin- centives to stay in the East, primarily the worsening job prospects there after 1995 and improving employment conditions in the West ... See full document

... We also checked for learning effects of interviewers in the section on partnership history. Again, in a first step we used a simple logistic regression model with previous partnerships 18 as the dependent variable and ... See full document

... Compared to other western countries trends in the levels of birth orders in the United States were more pronounced (Table 1, Figures 1-4 and 7). Total cohort fertility rates of all birth orders were increasing ... See full document

... For a very long time, Albania has had one of the highest levels of fertility in Europe: in 2002 the total fertility rate of 2.2 children per woman was the highest in Europe. Although this current level is high, the ... See full document

... equation 7, when expanded in terms of conditional temporary life expectancy as shown in the third bracketed term of equation 9a above, contains no reference to the age group from x to ... See full document

... Finally we included women’s socio-economic status in the model, measured in terms of educational attainment and labour market participation. Using information referring to the highest educational level ever reached, we ... See full document

... The social structure of Israeli Jewish society, both in religious circles and in secular society, is characterised by a significant cohesiveness and centrality of family life. Both factors imply a significant amount of ... See full document

... individuals are simulated for one stage in time (one year) before moving to the next stage in time. This allows for interactions between individuals and also for the use of contextual variables or feedback effects in the ... See full document

... section 7, we look not only at cohort rates but also at period age-specific fertility rates from the 1950s onwards and hazard rates for the 1940s and subsequent ... See full document

... We use data from the Japanese Longitudinal Survey of Adults in the 21st Century (2002 Cohort), a nationally representative panel survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare using multi-stage ... 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 at 𝑘 ... See full document

... Based on a unique data set on the event history of marriage and divorce collected in the In-Depth Fertility Surveys conducted in Shanghai, Shaanxi, and Hebei in 1985 and a multivariate h[r] ... See full document

... The DHS have collected relevant schooling information within 38 nations, including 23 in Africa, 3 in South Asia, 7 in Latin America, and 5 in the Middle East and West/Central Asia (DHS 2003). The diversity in ... See full document

... this article estimates cross-sectional effects on the probability of being childless, contrasting results across three age or cohort groups (women aged 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49 in ...to 11 household assets), ... See full document

... Several authors have proposed new approaches for forecasting mortality rates and life expectancy using statistical modeling (see Booth 2006; Booth and Tickle 2008, for reviews). Of these, a significant milestone in ... See full document

... The results of the estimation, which are shown in Tables 7 and 8, are generally consistent with the findings of studies not restricted to college-educated women. Holding other characteristics constant, married ... See full document

... Table 11 we observe that Model 1 provides closer fits than the Beta model for most of the data sets although the later requires the estimation of more ...(Table 11) provide the less successful fits among ... See full document

... As we might expect, we find the highest proportion of children living with a lone mother, or not with a mother at all, in the USA. On average, as much as 22 percent of children here live in a one-parent family (or in any ... 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

... Ever since the beginning of the 1990s, Poland has been experiencing rapid changes in its demographic patterns. In terms of family formation, these are the postponement or even abandonment of marriage and childbearing, ... See full document