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... The constant vector K was adjusted in such a way that the expected life expectancy values in 2050 coincided with target values assumed by Statistics Norway in its official population for[r] ... See full document

... Number of Living Children: The reference category is women with the highest lifetime fertility (6+ living children). As contrasted with these women, the odds ratio for 0‒1 living children is enormous, and this is ... See full document

... Socioeconomic groups were defined by the occupation of the head of household, which could be the mother, father, or, in rare circumstances where the child was adopted by another member of the family, another relative ... See full document

... Further hypotheses about spatial discontinuities in age-adjusted lung cancer mortality in 1980–1984 can be made. Migration patterns have created considerable differences in the age structure (Figure 6). One ... See full document

... The use of TOPALS for making assumptions about fertility implies that one is making assumptions about the levels of age-specific fertility rates and that the value of the TFR is an outcome, whereas in many countries it ... See full document

... About 60% of adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and that corresponds to a female-to-male ratio of infections of 1.48 (UNAIDS 2010). 4 Empirical estimates of the gender ratio of infections in African ... See full document

... trends have on the education levels of future generations of mothers, and may serve as an input into estimates of future levels of child mortality and the level of literacy that future school children may be expected to ... See full document

... children, and some socioeconomic characteristics of the spouse, such as gross income in 2010 and retirement status. The highest level of education attained is measured according to the International Standard ... See full document

... aged 15-49 who were prescribed oral contraception increased by a factor of twelve, from 4% in 1990 to 47% in 2006 (Figure ...some 15% used condoms and around 7% relied predominantly on withdrawal and ... See full document

... aged 15–45 in their first interview, in order to restrict our analysis to those likely to have a birth in the study period; as of 2014, age-specific fertility rates in the Netherlands were at ...for ... See full document

... process starts over again at the beginning of the new union. For women who have never entered a union, an occurrence/exposure rate is computed for each year of age starting at age 15, and the rates are added up ... See full document

... Despite their increased presence in the labour market, mothers continue to reconcile work and family by engaging in part-time work, and often only after children have entered school. Relative to other European countries, ... See full document

... The age patterns of childbearing were steady among the cohorts of the 1950s and early 1960s (Figure 15). Similarly as in the other central and East European formerly socialist countries, the transition from an ... See full document

... Since 1961, Swedish fertility has gone through what Hoem and Hoem (1996) have called a roller-coaster development. It can be depicted in various ways; in Figure 5 we show it in the form of a series of age-standardized ... See full document

... LE standard errors are increased by proportionately large amounts.. population error results in a slight incremental impact on statistical tests, with a 1.4% increase in false positive [r] ... See full document

... sectors. 15 Since research has also shown the population structure of places to be significantly linked to local poverty rates, we examine four variables related to county-level population structure: net ... See full document

... Nonetheless, most of the empirical work in developing countries that has examined the associations between family size and schooling attainment confirms the negative association: chil[r] ... See full document

... Our analyses indicate that the LNS was able to trace the large majority of sexual relationships reported by survey respondents: for example, when a survey respondent reported that his/he[r] ... See full document

... Nevertheless, research on neighborhood effects in urban India must confront the same problems as studies conducted in urban America: namely, the self- selection of individuals into neig[r] ... See full document

... With regard to the separate items of joint lifestyles, the differences between union types reveal the same pattern, except for visiting family, in which cohabiters with marriage intentio[r] ... See full document