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... situation; 9) free time (amount); 10) home; 11) neighbourhood; 12) feeling of belonging to the local community; 13) feeling safe; 14) health; 15) relationship with their partner; 16) relationship with their ... See full document

... As noted in the introduction, we deviate from previous studies by using the life course approach. The life course approach analyses life events, which are transitions and turning points embedded in life trajectories that ... See full document

... this volume is to provide these results to a wider ...the volume and the collaborators, and then focuses on a detailed description of the data used by all authors and on the threats to data quality in these ... See full document

... When assessing whether parental aspirations, exposure to crime/violence, or students’ level of preparedness or motivation may account for gender differences in educational adaptation, we include three control variables. ... See full document

... The first, self-reported general health, is assessed by asking the respondents how they would consider their current health status. Using this indicator, we construct a variable that equals 1 if the respondent was in ... See full document

... In order to vary the risk of mortality as a function of the age of mother at birth, a death rate multiplier was introduced to rescale the baseline mortality hazard rate sched- ule according to the individual-level ... See full document

... Analysing the interquartile range – the ages between which the central 50% of the population left the parental home – in Figure 10, it appears that the leaving home process became longer and more drawn out as the mean ... See full document

... Two approaches were used to estimate the constant K, a direct life table calculation based on numerical integration of the right side of (9), and an approach relying on the relation K = −h(κ )β −1 for a Gompertz ... See full document

... Demographic analysis, as a means to evaluate population age and sex structure, is well developed. Various methods exist to assess age and sex data quality (age ratio score, sex ratio score, age-heaping index (Whipple, ... See full document

... The relationship between life lived and left may be especially relevant for the study of populations in which ages are unknown, but individuals are followed until death. In Section 4 we discuss some of the challenges of ... See full document

... In Figure 3 we present the average number of days (defined as date of exit minus date of entry) spent by migrants in the centre by country of origin, countries being sorted by.. decreasi[r] ... See full document

... We analyse (i) the reasons parents provide for their division of parental leave and the link between these reasons and mothers’ and the fathers’ leave length, and (ii) consequences of th[r] ... See full document

... Before applying the method, Dorrington (2013) warns demographers to examine the data’s age structure of the population and the data’s relative completeness. As noted in our article (Section 3.1, Data), we assessed ... See full document

... Compared to Fast 3+ , for example, both women and men in the Slow 2 cluster, characterized by a relatively high age at first union and first birth and by a total fertility of about two [r] ... See full document

... In accordance with the family ties perspective, I propose a research agenda that addresses four issues, each associated with several scientific challenges: (1) identifying the role of fa[r] ... See full document

... Rates of poverty, as officially defined, are consistently highest among first-generation non-US citizen children, followed by second-generation children with two foreign-born parents (Fi[r] ... See full document

... Figure 1b depicts perfect association (or complete agreement) of these two measures: All prospectively unwanted births are also reported retrospectively as unwanted and all prospectively[r] ... See full document

... As can be seen in Table 4, couples formed by a native man with primary or secondary education and an immigrant woman with higher education than his are systematically less likely to happ[r] ... See full document

... In our study, all Swedish-born women with one or two foreign-born parents are defined as descendants of immigrants. We leave it to future research to produce separate analyses for women (and men) with one and two ... See full document

... Using birth history data from four representative sample surveys, parity progression ratios and mean birth intervals were computed, covering three decades of fertility change in Niger.. [r] ... See full document