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... We have observed yet another uniform trend reversal towards the end of the 1990s, however (Andersson and Liu 2001): Birth propensities of mothers (Figures 2-3) and childless women aged 3[r] ... See full document

... Egypt’s labour market shares many features in common with European countries that have experienced a decline in protected employment concurrently with economic recession (Kalmijin 2011). Since Egypt’s adoption of ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows clearly the difference in fertility between women with different levels of education and by birth order, with the most educated being later entrants and having a lower level of childbearing for all ... See full document

... and 4 clearly show, policy interventions should first identify those families that experience many infant deaths and then examine the mechanisms that bring about high fertility as well as an unusual number of ... See full document

... The contraceptive use findings are consistent with other research on fertility and contraceptive use patterns in India. In general, young women in India become pregnant soon after marriage, and 64% of married teenagers ... 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

... Turkey); 4) north-western European countries, which include Western European countries that are not included in the preceding categories such as the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries; and 5) others, ... 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

... Figure 4 presents the cross-correlation coefficients between the seasonally and trend-adjusted death and stillbirth series at different time lags or leads. The graph shows a very high positive correlation between ... See full document

... interviewers, 4 show a significant negative effect, which supports our assumption that they learned how to shorten ...other 4 interviewers have a significant positive effect, which supports the idea of ... See full document

... Analysing the interquartile range – the ages between which the central 50% of the population left the parental home – in Figure 10, it appears that the leaving home process became longer and more drawn out as the mean ... 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

... 2005). 4 This data set is unique because of its internationally comparative nature and the indicators contained in the questionnaire (it maps respondents’ family situations during childhood in a more detailed way, ... See full document

... Fig. 4; for the Ukraine, see Perelli-Harris 2008, Figure 5; for an investigation with particularly clear results, see Koytcheva 2006, who studied patterns for first and second births in Bulgaria in her Chapter ... See full document

... its 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were estimated for each group using the Gompertz parameters (and their standard errors) to generate 1,000 sets of death rates, and the corresponding life tables with ... See full document

... Figure 4 once again depicts the Netherlands 2001 single-year schedule (from Figure 1, approximated with a QS model in Figure 2), this time including the best CT approximation (in a least-squares sense, as in Hoem ... 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

... 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

... 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