[PDF] Top 20 Volume 4 - Article 8 | Pages 203–288

... All projections of fertility, mortality and migration used in producing global population projections are based in some manner on expert opinion informed by current conditions, past tren[r] ... See full document

... Marital status was measured in each census year, and was not updated during the subsequent five-year follow-up period. At ages above 50, (re)marriage rates have been low in past decades but are increasing among the ... See full document

... Permanent identifiers for the primary subjects under demographic surveillance (in- dividuals and households) are a prerequisite for the generation of consistent and high quality DSS data. The Karonga CRS utilises a ... See full document

... Figure 4, showing the score of selected behavioural components of the SDT (SDT1 index), as well as the attitudinal and values components of the SDT (SDT2 index) in 29 European countries, show that the differences ... See full document

... Four principal hypotheses have been proposed in the literature of religious studies of fertility to explain these fertility differentials, namely, (1) the particularized theology hypothesis, (2) the characteristics ... See full document

... In order to examine the time-squeeze hypothesis we use a duration perspective. We extend Model 1d with an interaction term between age at first birth and the duration since first birth; this model will be referred to as ... See full document

... A more problematic aspect, however, is that, in spite of improved statistical bulletins and data processing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were deficiencies in MNP coverage. An INE survey (1987) revealed the ... See full document

... Nonetheless, a two-way interaction between educational level and calendar period reveals an important change in the educational gradient in the patterns of first union formation. While in the second half of the 1990s the ... See full document

... Although the Hungarian society has been witnessing postponement overall, we assume that different social groups perceiving different pressures and adhering to different values adjust at different pace and perhaps develop ... See full document

... Between 1974 and 1995, all five adoptions mentioned on People’s cover occurred within marriage. After 1995, adoption increasingly became a route to nonmarital parenthood for celebrities, with 17 of 26 adoptions in this ... See full document

... Developmental disability: We distinguish between children diagnosed with a developmental disability and those without any developmental disability. Children are said to have a developmental disability if their parents ... See full document

... Bongaarts and Feeney (2002, 2003) argue that tempo biases occur in mortality as well. Using an artificial example, Feeney (2003, Figure 4) has demonstrated that cohort changes in the death distribution within an ... See full document

... on self-efficacy is rich with suggestions for strengthening this construct. Bandura (1977) specified four channels through which self-efficacy can be learned and strengthened: (1) successful performance of the behavior ... See full document

... Similarly, recent studies in the fertility domain demonstrate that intentions to have a child (in formal terms, intention to attain the behavioral goal of having a child[r] ... See full document

... Of the 3,243 individual respondents in MDICP-3 who identified a congregation where they participate, all but 31 were successfully matched to one of the MRP congregations. Approximately 20 MDICP respondents on average are ... See full document

... Foucault recognized that sexuality is not only self-determined, but is also socially produced. People evaluate their sexuality and accompanying sexual behavior by comparing it to the standards of the societies or smaller ... See full document

... It should be noted that, in this article, the terms “education” and “schooling” were used interchangeably. In the models, girls’ education was categorised according to the number of years of schooling completed: ... See full document

... A similar analysis of first union dissolution is reported in Table 4. The first row indicates that the modest increase in the proportion of first unions ending in 5 years (seen in Table 2) is marginally ... See full document

... Five objections are discussed: the model does not necessarily lead to a fertility increase; aggressiveness will lead to an imbalance of labor supply and demand, and is likely to confr[r] ... See full document

... Unfortunately, recent information on the Women’s Bureau sample is not available. Data on samples of the cohort of women in a similar age bracket and with the same educational attainment can be obtained, however. ... See full document