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... The structure of the demographic database at the National Statistical Institute and the availability of the personal identification number (PID) allow for linking various demo- graphic e[r] ... See full document

... observations in the 5 counties with a weather station are included. (6): Unclustered robust standard errors. (7): Standard errors are clustered at the county level. (8): Eq. 1 estimated by a Probit regression. ... See full document

... and 6 present the results from regression models predicting current fertility behavior and children ever born for women from approximately fifteen years earlier (1986-1988 June ... See full document

... Table 6 indicates for each work plan chosen in 1957, the percent choosing the various 1964 options. The most significant point visible from this table is that the most common answer for almost all of the ... See full document

... We don’t expect the same definitional problem with India because this country uses a much lower threshold (5,000 inhabitants), together with a functionalist approach (ad- ministrative centers, non-agricultural ... See full document

... A multivariate econometric analysis that regresses the labour force participation and the number of weekly hours worked on a set of socio-economic and socio- demographic variables for 1987 and 1997 yields several ... See full document

... We study the dynamics for large lattices and present our results mostly for city size N = 100. Figures 2-7 are all based on N = 100. In the last section, we discuss the cases N = 50 and N = 200, and show that N greater ... See full document

... This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, ... See full document

... Parameters were assessed using the most recent cycle (2012) of PIAAC survey data. In this survey the respondents’ literacy proficiency is measured along a continuous scale ranging from 0 to 500, where a higher score ... See full document

... whether the variable is more strongly associated with first births for women or men and a (+) or (-) depending on whether the variable for the sex with the larger association is positively or negatively associated with ... See full document

... to 6 (second stage of tertiary education), are ...and 6–6); eduHYPER – hypergamy, the female partner has a lower education level than the male partner (woman’s education given in ISCED number is ... See full document

... Building on three distinct temporal primitives - tick, granule and instant - we suggest a unified timestamp with explicit precision and unambiguous textual representation emphasizing h[r] ... See full document

... As result of distance, large proportions of caretakers are forced to spend many hours to get to the nearest health facility and this is particularly the case in Samfya. Table 6 shows this. Whereas in Kawambwa the ... See full document

... Encyclopedia, 2004; Lee and Moss, 1995; Haynes, 1991). Bulls (males) are sexually mature at about 11 to 12 years of age, but they typically are not allowed to mate until around age 30 years. Elephant cows ... See full document

... We apply APC models to data on human cancer incidence rates in different countries and time periods. The data are provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in seven volumes (IARC 1965 - 1997). ... See full document

... More specifically, (i) we will review the current methods used in official mortality forecasts in Europe; (ii) compare the outcomes and the assumptions of different projecti[r] ... See full document

... This result can be obtained by a decline (over age) in the related parameter of the logarithmic rate of aging (parameter B in Model 2) or by an age-related decline in intensity of exte[r] ... See full document

... I thus feel that Chandra Sekar’s ‘exclusive effect’ given by equation (1.7) can be considered a viable alternative to the present United Nation’s (1985) formula for the following reasons[r] ... See full document

... For simplicity, we concentrate in this paper on two particular benchmark scenarios: (i) a postponement stops scenario in which we calculate the parity progression measures assuming that [r] ... See full document

... Birth registration is a fundamental right that affords children the opportunity to be documented and establish their nationality. Unfortunately, this right is denied to many children, especially in less developed ... See full document