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... Our research question is: To what extent can the timing of the events of leaving the parental home to live with and without a partner be explained by young adults’ and their parents’ res[r] ... See full document

... co-residence 7 , however, as previous surveys have revealed much lower levels of co-residing 8 and as many people tend to live close to their relatives without sharing ... See full document

... half. 7 As a result, the economic burden that a young person has to bear in order to own his/her dwelling reached 70% of personal income in 2007 for a single person and 45% for a young household (Observatorio ... See full document

... where C[] is a closing procedure used to transform the estimates into compositional data summing up to the initial constant. This is equivalent to calculating the proportions in each year t. To re-enter compositional ... See full document

... for women who reported only one union and were in that union at the beginning of the calendar period; (3) all unions for women who reported more than one union, who starte[r] ... See full document

... Perceived stress was assessed using Cohen’s perceived stress scale (Cohen, Kamarck, and Mermelstein 1983) with a few modifications to fit the Chinese context (Wen et al. 2010). The scale included eight items with an ... See full document

... This is represented in the high shares of childless living arrangements: 26.7% of Western German and 14.4 % of Eastern German women do not live with children.. The largest [r] ... See full document

... Table 2 contains the relative distribution of births during our period(s) of interest that were reported as occurring while the mothers were not living in a union, and while they were living with a partner in a ... See full document

... Finally, the third phase in the evolution of Italian fertility and mobility is quite recent. We note a slight increase in the birth rate, indicated by a national TFR that changed from 1.22 in 1990–95 to 1.28 in the five ... See full document

... Frailty is described by a set of g discrete frailty classes; the frailty values of these classes are given by a g ×1 vector z. To create the frailty classes, first specify a maximum frailty, where the cumulative gamma ... See full document

... Columns (1)–(4) include the 54 couples that provided identical responses to the personality statements; columns (5)–(8) exclude them. Columns (1) and (5) do not control for demographics. In columns (2) and (6), we ... See full document

... an article which reviewed the historical research to date and combined it with contemporary statistical data, Reher (1998) has reaffirmed the validity of the original macro-regional distinction, and shown that a ... See full document

... Finally, as with any panel study, sample attrition is an important consideration. Overall, 17% of individuals who were age-eligible (75 and younger) for the 2000 interview were lost to follow-up between 1991 and ... See full document

... this article suggest that “quality of care” issues are still distant in provider-client interactions, and the needs of clients, particularly regarding access (Speizer, Hotchkiss et ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document

... Knowledge of these transition probabilities allows the estimation of a full multistate life table and corresponding period health expectancies (both conditional and unconditional), usi[r] ... See full document

... Based on the model, we show that three key measures of old-age mortality (the modal age of adult deaths, the life expectancy at the modal age, and the standard deviation of ages at dea[r] ... See full document

... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... Second, to show whether same- and different-sex relationships differ in the levels of couple homogeneity, we fit a series of binary logit regression models predicting whether respondents[r] ... See full document

... Thus, the first two figures complement each other: Figure 1 uses the stacked bar plot technique to reveal the variation of young adult mortality in Mexican states over time; Figure 2 sho[r] ... See full document