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... This article examines changes in network structure using data on conversational networks from the 1998 and 2001 rounds of the Malawi Diffusion and Ideation Change ...The article demonstrates that: (i) ... See full document

... completeness. 9 We feel that the existence of the ENI in Spain should encourage willing countries to consider the possibility of undertaking a transnational survey, like the ENI carried out, at roughly the same ... See full document

... Encyclopedia, 2004; Lee and Moss, 1995; Haynes, 1991). Bulls (males) are sexually mature at about 11 to 12 years of age, but they typically are not allowed to mate until around age 30 years. Elephant cows ... See full document

... Unfortunately, recent information on the Women’s Bureau sample is not available. Data on samples of the cohort of women in a similar age bracket and with the same educational attainment can be obtained, however. ... See full document

... observations in the 5 counties with a weather station are included. (6): Unclustered robust standard errors. (7): Standard errors are clustered at the county level. (8): Eq. 1 estimated by a Probit regression. Average ... See full document

... Hewitt’s test (Hewitt et al., 1971) was employed to investigate whether the relative risks of dying follow a seasonal pattern. This test gives ranks to each month. The value “12” is assigned to the month with the ... See full document

... Parameters were assessed using the most recent cycle (2012) of PIAAC survey data. In this survey the respondents’ literacy proficiency is measured along a continuous scale ranging from 0 to 500, where a higher score ... See full document

... The variable ‘educational achievement’ builds on information on the highest achieved level of formal education. In the Swiss educational system, compulsory schooling lasts nine years, and usually consists of six years of ... 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

... Models that link childhood and adult SES to later-life health adjust for early- and mid-life confounders that are available in the UPDB and have been shown to be associated with both SES and later-life health outcomes ... See full document

... Applying this model on China can only lead to overestimation in the projection period, whatever the historical trend of this country, simply because its urban definition makes the estima[r] ... See full document

... situation; 9) free time (amount); 10) home; 11) neighbourhood; 12) feeling of belonging to the local community; 13) feeling safe; 14) health; 15) relationship with their partner; 16) relationship with their ... See full document

... All the time series of this study are subject to trends: life expectancies are increasing, mortality rates are decreasing, and mortality is being compressed (see Figure 1). When analyzing the associations between ... See full document

... The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after entry, a[r] ... See full document

... I thus feel that Chandra Sekar’s ‘exclusive effect’ given by equation (1.7) can be considered a viable alternative to the present United Nation’s (1985) formula for the following reasons[r] ... See full document

... We identify distinct scales of global aggregation, and in particular, we show that for the values of disparate neighbor comfort threshold used by Schelling, the striking global aggrega- [r] ... See full document

... Figure 21, plots second and third birth risks standardised to the 1989 level and shows a shift in the expected direction. The overall intensity of childbearing increased during the early 1990s; this increase was more ... See full document

... This result can be obtained by a decline (over age) in the related parameter of the logarithmic rate of aging (parameter B in Model 2) or by an age-related decline in intensity of exte[r] ... See full document

... The rates, means and standard errors of each of the independent variables are presented in terms of the ethnicity variable (Table 1). Of the 7,851 women who are included in the analysis in the 2002 period (infecund ... See full document

... Using the women’s 2013 Demographic Health Survey dataset, we applied a nonlinear decomposition technique to determine the contribution of sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristi[r] ... See full document