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... From the point of view of modeling mortality levels across countries, a Bayesian approach of- fers an intuitive way to share information across different countries and time periods, and [r] ... See full document

... Note: The dotted black line represents the 45-degree line, in which the reported proportion of deaths due to external causes is equal to the hypothesized true proportion of deaths due to external causes in the ... See full document

... As noted, we follow in the tradition of integration research that uses change in occupational percentage point female to demonstrate how feminization and masculinization occur. Relying on a set of case studies of ... See full document

... This special collection of Demographic Research includes selected and peer- reviewed papers presented at the international conference on Advances in Methodology and Applications: Biodemography and Multistate Event ... See full document

... was conducted by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) as part of a new census of the Swiss population. Its sample includes approximately 10,000 permanent residents in Switzerland aged 15 to 79 years (the reference ... See full document

... aged 15–19, both married and sex- ually active unmarried women, proportions of sexually active adolescents, and adolescent fertility measured by the age-specific fertility rate (ASF R) 15–19 in the three ... See full document

... The surveyed families had different lengths of stay in Italy at the time of interview. Thus, as conventionally done (Fuller 2014; Castagnone et al. 2015; Kleinepier, de Valk, and van Gaalen 2015), to compare family ... See full document

... tality will function as a competing risk for many of the outcomes studied by demog- raphers, thus implying that “for a real cohort, [all-cause] mortality is the only single- decrement process” (Preston, Heuveline, and ... See full document

... HMD is a powerful instrument for obtaining better population and mortality esti- mates at old ages. The HMD methodology relies on the death data. The whole range of HMD population estimates can be split into two parts. ... See full document

... disadvantaged 15–19-year-olds also incorporates an extensive formative phase to inform RDS design and implementation, including community mapping, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with the target ... See full document

... This aspect is important for Italy, where the spread of fixed-term contracts, part- time work, and flexible jobs has been facilitated by the introduction of the 1997 Treu and the 2003 Biagi reform measures 10 (Censis ... See full document

... in union – almost 20% lower than Honduras, the country with the second lowest recorded rate. Across Guatemala’s eight political regions significant variation in contraceptive use complicates a straight-forward ... See full document

... Figure A-7: Annual estimates for β of the Makeham model, which is fitted to female mortality for the calendar years t, 1960 (light gray) to 2009 (black), along with a linear regression [r] ... See full document

... The empirical results of this study highlight the long-overlooked role of traditional culture in accounting for demographic outcomes in contemporary China. In general, marriage and family decisions are the joint ... See full document

... Regardless of whether the ultimate aim is to compare marital fertility patterns in different countries or to undertake a detailed study of a single country over a long time period during[r] ... See full document

... this article enhances our understanding of the relationship between imprisonment and mortality by providing insight into state-level variation in this relationship for black, white, and Hispanic males and ... See full document

... This study shows with hard, reliable data, independent of traditional statistics, that elderly males in tropical Latin America enjoy an exceptionally high life expectancy and that SES gr[r] ... See full document

... In review, while the two-process theory cannot be expressed in a closed form, by assuming that the intrinsic and extrinsic processes work independently and that vitality i[r] ... See full document

... The preface by Yi Zeng ( 2018 ) and the three papers in this Special Collection of Demographic Research demonstrate that significant progress has been made in the understanding of the c[r] ... See full document

... Using sample data from the city of The Hague, it is estimated that the proportion of students in the Netherlands born in the Dutch East Indies was about 3 per cent, implying that the t[r] ... See full document