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... analytically. Many studies combine qualitative and quantitative approaches, some to inform the design (and presumably the analysis) of the survey (Biddlecom & Fapohunda 1998, Wolff 2000), others as a complement to ... See full document

... In sum, this preliminary analysis shows partial support for the contextual hypothesis, depending on the specific context examined. The evidence can be tested more formally through statistical analysis. Multivariate ... See full document

... Maternal education is a proxy for a host of unmeasured factors such as mother’s child- care skills, domestic management of child illness, household power dynamics and effec- tive use of modern health services. Paternal ... See full document

... A number of randomized experiments have compared face-to-face interviews with audio or video computer-assisted self-interviewing (CASI) methods, which do not require users to respond to potentially sensitive questions ... See full document

... Analyses for this study were based on two methodological approaches. We used a Classical Test Theory-based (CTT) approach because the methods are familiar to most audiences and to facilitate the comparison of our results ... 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

... Figure 3 illustrates the impact of different levels of immigration on the linguistic composition of future labour force by assuming stylised scenarios where the number of immigrants is either doubled or set to ... See full document

... Luxembourg); 3) Eastern European countries, for which migration to Switzerland is more recent (ex- communist states including former Yugoslavia, plus Turkey); 4) north-western European countries, which include ... 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 3 shows the cross-correlations between seasonally and trend-adjusted deaths and births at 𝑘 -month lags or leads ( −12 ≤ 𝑘 ≤ 12 ), represented by the ...Figure 3 shows a negative and statistically ... See full document

... Nevertheless, we are most interested in two specific biases, rWpU and rUpW. The former response pair, rWpU, is much more common than the latter, rUpW (see Table 3). The more common bias, rWpU, occurs when a woman ... See full document

... section 3), while the proportion of married women in the GGS is underestimated by 30 percentage points in the 1925–29 cohort, by 25 percentage points in the 1930–34 cohort, by 20 percentage points in the 1935–39 ... See full document

... Results for the cumulative risk of paternal and maternal incarceration for Danish and U.S. children further reinforce just how common an experience parental incarceration is for U.S. children relative to children living ... See full document

... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... See full document

... region dummies, and survey year dummies. We find that part of the January effect is not explained by education and other controls for real wages and formal/informal em- ployment. For real wages, the unexplained gap ... See full document

... Furthermore, we apply random effects models, which also control for unobserved region and time heterogeneity. Table A-2 shows the results of GLS estimations with region-specific random effects (model 5), time-specific ... See full document

... In Italy, the phenomenon of marital disruption is relatively recent and still not very common (ISTAT 2007). This is probably due to cultural and normative factors, which make separation costly, from both emotional and ... See full document

... To facilitate meaningful comparison between different species, with this paper we provide a systematic discussion of 1) how the time aspect of aging can be measured, 2) how pace measures can be used as an intrinsic time ... See full document

... However, although important, distinguishing between marital and total fertility is insufficient: merely analyzing the intensity of births, total or marital, is not the most appropriate method. Parents’ main aim as far as ... See full document

... Our analytical strategy consists in comparing the coefficients assessing migrants’ health advantages across nested models, successively adding our independent variables of interest. A series of methodological papers warn ... See full document