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... In our presentation, we develop our descriptive measures and apply them to data from 15 of the countries that participated in the last round of Fertility and Family Surveys (FFS) conducted in Europe between 1989 and ... See full document

... and 4 in that they report the cumulative percent of all children who ever have the experience of living outside a union of their two parents by the exact ages 0, 1, 3, 9, and ... See full document

... Figure 4 depicts the duration effect of pregnancy/age of the youngest child on the propensity to migrate. Migration risks dramatically increase in the early months of a pregnancy, reach a maximum value of 3.22 at ... See full document

... The Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow rapidly, and its share in the population over age 65 is expected to more than double between 2012 and 2050, from just over 7% to over 18% (15.4 ... See full document

... the number of respondents. We constructed a spell data set suitable for event history analysis. Each spell begins with the month of a couple’s first childbirth and ends either with the first month of gainful employment ... See full document

... Korean government announced a program called the Saeromaji Plan as a response to low fertility and population aging, and strengthened the role of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in developing and implementing ... See full document

... What is important is the fact that while the United Nations (1982) seemed to be aware of the existence of other decomposition formulas it failed to realize that all these proce- dures would give the same results if ... See full document

... In this study, more sophisticated methods than those associated with the TFR will be utilized. As a first in relation to Iceland, we will apply an event history analysis on Icelandic longitudinal individual register data ... See full document

... The proposed framework implies that the dilution and divergence perspectives are com- plementary and reconcilable. They can in fact be seen as two special cases of the same framework. The dilution argument can be viewed ... See full document

... Studying data from national time use surveys conducted in the United States, France, and Spain, we extract information about who undertakes certain activities in order to examine three t[r] ... See full document

... The result for Italy is reported in Table 2, while the regional analysis is commented upon in the next section. 21 The columns from 1 to 4 report the regression results for the model, estimated in four time ... See full document

... p. 144, states ”the change over time in the crude death rate can be separated into the average change in the death rates and the covariance between the death rates and the age specific growth ... See full document

... The Indian population comprises several distinct communities (Table 1) that share common values and norms with regard to family formation, including arranged and patrilocal marriage and the dowry system. Marriage is of ... See full document

... The illustration of the crossover in life expectancy observed in the HMD data suggests that socio-cultural, economic, and political factors that influence the intermediate factors that shape the mortality patterns in ... See full document

... The analysis is based on the 1996 Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) data for Italy and Spain. This survey was conducted in the 1990s in many member states of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and was ... See full document

... In Figures 2 to 6, we present relative risks of childbearing by calendar year and country, with one diagram for each birth type that we cover. In each case, the risks are given relative to that of Sweden in 1977 (Note ... See full document

... A BASIC program was used to estimate the parameters through maximisation of the likelihood function. A goodness-of-fit test with 92 degrees of freedom was then performed with a resulting chi-square sum of 127. This ... See full document

... urbanites. Thus, we can be sure that the overwhelming majority of Soviet immigrants to Israel originated in cities and urban areas and not in rural localities. 7 Similarly, the 2007 Pew Religious Landscape Survey ... See full document

... ued postponement suggests a higher cumulative fertility due to some late first and higher order births. In the cohort that is age 17 in 1999, the postponement continues scenario implies a cumulative fertility level until ... See full document

... The appropriate age for measles vaccination is typically determined by weighing the risk of measles disease and complications at a given age with vaccine efficacy at that age. The Indian measles vaccination schedule ... See full document