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... Among the former socialist countries, the picture of union dissolution was somewhat different from the one on entering the partnership. In Latvia and Estonia, about one third of all women in the initial cohort had ... See full document

... This appendix examines two artificial examples of mortality tempo effects presented by Bongaarts and Feeney (2002: Figure 3; 2003: Figure 5) and discusses an implication for age-specific death rates of the ... See full document

... is fitted using Microsoft Excel’s nonlinear regression facility, Solver. Over a user- defined age range (with a default of 17 to 49, usually excluding 18, 19, and 20 for the student curve) the function is fitted to ... See full document

... A more problematic aspect, however, is that, in spite of improved statistical bulletins and data processing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were deficiencies in MNP coverage. An INE survey (1987) revealed the ... See full document

... with monthly data on 3,000 life histories of women born 1966-1981. These women were 25-40 at the time of the interview. The advantage of this observational design is that we have good information on union formation ... See full document

... In models 2 and 3, I replace the current religious denomination variable with the variables of frequency attending religious services and importance of religious beliefs in people’s daily lives, respectively. Apparently, ... See full document

... Considering the partnership career within a given period of time (5 years) after the career started, persons living in cohabitation showed a much lower propensity of becoming a parent [r] ... See full document

... since the early 1990s (see Overview Chapter 5). A number of specific questions regarding the occurrence of the SDT in this region arise repeatedly: Are behavioural changes since the early 1990s qualitatively ... See full document

... Between 1974 and 1995, all five adoptions mentioned on People’s cover occurred within marriage. After 1995, adoption increasingly became a route to nonmarital parenthood for celebrities, with 17 of 26 adoptions in this ... See full document

... (ages 5–14); they are limited in any way because of difficulty remembering or because they experience periods of confusion (ages 2–14); they have difficulty walking without equipment due to a health illness (ages ... See full document

... married; 5% of the divorced and 1% of the never married in 1990 (re)married during 1991–1995 among men, while during 2006–2010 these figures were 8% for divorced and 4% for men who never married in 2005 ... See full document

... The rationale for the surveillance of household membership was to obtain an accurate de- nominator for the calculation of vital rates, to update information on current residence for all individuals, to facilitate ... See full document

... “women who use contraception end up with health problems” (attitudes; classified under the cognitive dimension of ideation). The individual items were coded such that higher scores reflect rejection of myths and rumors. ... See full document

... than 5 years’ duration in the United States is consistent with an assimilation process in which longer duration in the receiving country allows children to follow schooling patterns that are more similar to ... See full document

... This article reports on how these two types of challenges have been addressed in a survey of irregular, international, female labor migrants conducted in Moscow, Russia, in the autumn of ... See full document

... The first step toward a comprehensive timestamp notation is to distinguish these three temporal primitives, tick, granule and granule instant 7 . We propose to reserve the original ISO 8601 notation, which we call the ... See full document

... least 5 hours before the blood sample was ...between 5 and 8 hours, and respondent has fasted for more than 8 hours before the blood sample was taken) which were included as co- variates in ... 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

... Table 1 provides estimates of the cumulative proportions of marriages expected to have ended by 5-year durations up to 30 years. The emergence of differentials can be seen over successive durations, but we focus ... See full document

... The declining total cohort fertility rates and cumulated cohort fertility rates of the young generations in the Nordic countries would not be possible without changes in parity distributions and parity progression ... See full document