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... Algorithm for decomposition of differences between aggregate demographic measures and its application to life expectancies, healthy life expectancies, parity-progression ratios and.. tot[r] ... See full document

... We conclude our presentation with a crude summary of the fractions of time that respondents’ children spent in various family types (Table 8). These percentages have simply been calculated from the family states that ... See full document

... Of interest for health needs profiling is the disease burden at different ages and how this varies between geographic areas. As noted above the area gradients for illness on age η j1a are more highly correlated with area ... 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

... We have applied both approaches to estimate life expectancy at the age that begins the open-ended interval. We select that age to be the lowest integer age above which fewer than 2% of recorded deaths occur. The Gompertz ... See full document

... During recent decades, there has been a rapid educational expansion in all Nordic countries, and the proportions of women with more than compulsory education (i.e., more than primary or lower secondary education) has ... See full document

... Standard economic theories of migration usually assume that migrants are positively selected in terms of ability and productivity (e.g., Chiswick 1978; Sjaastad 1962). Potential migrants make cost-benefit calculations of ... See full document

... Vaupel (2003) used simulations and empirical reasoning to investigate for some specific cases the impact of redundancy, repair capacity, and heterogeneity on the relative length of pos[r] ... See full document

... Instead of referring to age and time as continuous variables, let’s consider age and time intervals or categories, all of the same width. For instance, all individuals with ages between 0 and 1 are assigned to the age ... See full document

... equation 7, when expanded in terms of conditional temporary life expectancy as shown in the third bracketed term of equation 9a above, contains no reference to the age group from x to ... See full document

... Education influences fertility also indirectly. Assuming that highly educated women have their first child later in life than their counterparts with lower qualifications (Blossfeld and Huinink, 1989, 1991), one can ... See full document

... No material from Dale’s previous response on age suggests a logical next topic or likely question to elicit an allowed response option (lines 86–87). Annie asks a yes–no question framed in terms of response option (06), ... See full document

... Postponement of marriage is associated with lower third-birth intensity: The latter diminishes by 34% when comparing women who married before they reached age 20 with women who married after age 26. The close link ... See full document

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the other ... See full document

... The unweighted average response rate across the 14 countries included in Table 4 is just below 60%, so four out of ten respondents were not interviewed. To put this response rate into perspective, it can be ... 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

... In particular, the changing emphasis on child quality, coupled with the decline in extended family support with respect to childrearing, is promoting the adoption of innovative fertili[r] ... See full document

... Net to the characteristics of the women, the higher education level of the father has a negative effect on marriage and a positive impact on cohabitation; the effect is stronger in centr[r] ... 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

... a 14-year follow-up period in the CPS-II study increased estimates of relative mortality risk for smokers by 8% to 28%, compared to continuing use of smoking status as reported at ... See full document