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... Descriptive statistics reveal that the occupational structure of the Tartu population was dominated by manual workers, who accounted for over three-fifths of the gainfully employed; the second largest group was comprised ... 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

... The individual-level data for the empirical analysis of immigrants’ marital choices is drawn from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey (NIS), released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. This partly ... See full document

... Based on the sample and shown in Figures 6 through 8, within and between sectors, noteworthy distributional differences emerge that are linked to the constructed linguistic groups. Consistently, though, native ... See full document

... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... Bettio and Villa (1998) contend that the threat of high unemployment rates (particularly for women) in Italy make it virtually impossible for women to risk taking career breaks to have children, due to extreme ... See full document

... approximately 1/10 of the PSUs that have the largest within-PSU variance in education - the precise selection criterion being a standard deviation larger than ... See full document

... conclusions: 1) Findings from two ethnographic studies of low fertility can be compared and generalised if such concepts as ‘comparison’ and ‘generalisation’ are understood in the anthropological ... See full document

... Although demographic rates are social facts of the most compelling kind, although “culture” and “population” offer contrasting concepts of social structure, and although the theoretica[r] ... See full document

... factor 1/TMR 30 (t) , while p c (x, t − x) would stay constant at current ...of 1/TMR(t) in Equation (12) to µ(x, t) because of their assumption of cohort-invariant delays of future cohort deaths in the ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document

... The binary regressions for the main variables indicated that, after other factors are controlled for, mothers who were older and whose youngest child was older were less likely to report the intention to have another ... See full document

... income, 40−44 year old Buddhist women have the lowest number of children ever born of any religious group, approximately half a child lower than the Christian majority (who have about ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... In the LRC cohort, mortality of men with high education is close to the city average for Helsinki and Oslo. Absolute inter-group differences are much greater in the Russian sample than in the two other populations. ... See full document

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the ... See full document

... identity: 1) women who identify as AI/AN only, 2) any woman who identifies as AI/AN, whether identifying one or more races, and 3) women who list a specific tribe or American Indian for the ancestry ... See full document