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... About three-quarters of those born in 1300-15 have no descendant born in the period 1800-15 (Table 3, models 1 and 2). This figure is only slightly smaller for the growing than for the stationary population over the ... See full document

... The FGIs were conducted at the premises of the research design developed by the international project ‘Focus on Partnerships’. Team members collaborated to create a standardized focus group guideline, which was used to ... See full document

... Neyer, G., G. Andersson, J. M. Hoem, M. Rønsen, and A. Vikat. 2006b. Fertilität, Familiengründung und Familienerweiterung in den nordischen Ländern, in H. Bertram, H. Krüger, and C. K. Spieß (Eds.), Wem gehört die ... See full document

... Male and female cancer incidence rates are different. Males have higher incidence rates at older ages than the opposite sex. The stable relationship between the estimations of parameters B and ε D for male and female ... See full document

... We incorporate recent developments in the continuous measurement of birth outcomes as advocated by Solis et al. (2000) and others (e.g., Wilcox and Skjœrven 1992), in which birth outcomes are measured as deviations from ... See full document

... Data collected in Wave II of MDICP (2001) provided early glimpses into the relationship between religion and HIV risk at the individual level, and found that risk behaviors and the perception of risk vary by both ... See full document

... less attractive women may be at greater risk of having unfaithful spouses/partners than more attractive women. We used responses to two questions to create a variable measuring spousal/partner infidelity. Ever-married ... See full document

... relocations. 7 As a result, in these contexts the migration propensities of dual-earner couples should be lower than those of male-breadwinner couples, as the employment prospects of men and women, and the ... See full document

... Our independent variable is the number of full siblings. This variable was recorded for the first time in wave 5. The number of full siblings was categorised into no siblings, one sibling, two siblings, and three and ... 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

... 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

... So far we have seen that education is an important determinant both for the timing of motherhood and for the proportion that remain childless. Not surprisingly, it also affects a woman's total number of children. Women ... See full document

... If moves are associated with life events there are two factors that can explain greater residential mobility in some groups of movers but not others: differences in exposure and differen[r] ... See full document

... For our hazard analysis of the divorce risks of Swedish women in their first marriages, we use a unique set of Swedish individual-level register data with ample information on demographic profiles and on social and ... See full document

... The article begins by providing general information about 22 surveillance sites from Africa and Asia, with sizes of monitored populations varying from around 8 to 215 ... See full document

... For example, childless male cohabiters are more worried than their female partner that another lifestyle will be expected after a marriage, and they voice more doubt about the value of[r] ... See full document

... antecedents. 10 Furthermore, since their creation, the common lands have worked as collective units, where the common land authorities have managed the local resources and have had the responsibility of coping ... See full document

... As mentioned above, structural factors evidently contributed to the rapid conversion of consensual unions into marriage in the Baltic countries before the 1990s compared to [r] ... See full document

... Demographic analysis, as a means to evaluate population age and sex structure, is well developed. Various methods exist to assess age and sex data quality (age ratio score, sex ratio score, age-heaping index (Whipple, ... See full document

... this article, we extend this research by examining the relationship between military service and the likelihood that cohabiting unions will be converted into ... See full document