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... 5. The methods used to detect infanticide cannot be fully described here. It should be emphasized that infanticide can only be inferred from data in the sh ū mon-aratame- ch ō . Vital events were recorded once a ... See full document

... or near Western Europe (Austria, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg); 3) Eastern European countries, for which migration to Switzerland is more recent (ex- communist states including former Yugoslavia, plus ... See full document

... Each volume covers a time period of several years (usually three to five) for each country (or province and/or ethnic group) under ...in 5- year age groups up to 85 and above (for some countries, the first ... 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

... A new social system was needed for a patriarchal and agrarian society, in which more than 80% of the population lived in extreme poverty (Mason et al. 1945). The health of the population was extremely poor, with malaria ... See full document

... This analysis suggests that individuals tend to underreport concurrent partnerships substantially in FTFIs. Several alternative interview formats have been tested in an attempt to reduce this bias, including ... See full document

... Apart from smoking-related cancers Israeli Jewish males also demonstrate survival advantage relative to other males for other major behaviourally induced types of mortality: external causes (broadly related to risk ... See full document

... Turning to adult female deaths, the estimates in Table 2 are based on applying the DDM methods to all open-ended age groups from 5+ to 70+. An evaluation of the methods by Murray et al. (2010) indicated that ... See full document

... Our outcome of interest is the hazard of dying among children under five at age intervals 0, 1–5, 6–11, 12–23, and 24–59 months. We apply this age interval classification to reflect the hazard of dying in ... See full document

... covers 11 different topics, namely household composition, information on children, 4 on actual and previous partnerships, on household organisation, on parents and the parental home, on fertility, on health and ... See full document

... grade 5. Knowing the age-specific enrollment ratios for ages 11 and 12, one can estimate the enrollment ratio for age ...grade 5) as a weighted average of enrollments for age 11 (weight ... See full document

... In Section 2, we give formal definitions of the tail of longevity and of the relative tail of longevity. Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to proving that redundancy decreases the relative tail of longevity. As mentioned, ... See full document

... Dynamic models can yield relationships that are not possible in fixed rate models. Here we see that the Bongaarts-Feeney dynamic fertility model can lead to a population with period fertility consistently below ... See full document

... As outlined above, we interpreted our coefficient on child labour as causal effect. Of course, this interpretation is only valid if there are no omitted variables which are correlated with the error term and child ... See full document

... than two-thirds of these expenses (Singerman 2007). This means that the average Egyptian groom must save his entire earnings for 3.5 years to finance his share of marriage expenditures alone (compared to 0.6 years for ... See full document

... All three models simultaneously project demographic (age, sex, place of residence, immigrant status), ethno-cultural (country of birth, language, and where possible other variables such[r] ... See full document

... Using data from the Japanese Longitudinal Survey of Adults in the 21 st Century (2002 Cohort), we employ fixed-effects models to estimate the effect of workplace norms on men’s contribu[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