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... The gender- and union-specific single-year disability rates were combined with the single-year marital-status life tables derived from the Eurostat data to estimate the person years at[r] ... See full document

... women who, instead of staying home and dedicating themselves to childbearing, prefer to invest in education and professional training; this leads to a further delay in family formation. Employed women, especially those ... See full document

... In our application we focussed on overall mortality, and consequently neglected age- and cause-specific mortality trends. However, the same analysis can be applied to different age groups to see whether certain patterns ... See full document

... from 19 abortions per 1000 women of reproductive age in 1981 to 14 per 1000 in ...to 19 and at risk of an unintended pregnancy do not use contraception, Table 4) but, when an accidental pregnancy occurs, ... See full document

... DHS, a marginal increase from the 2003 estimate of 33% (National Population Commission, Federal Republic of Nigeria and ICF International, Maryland USA 2014). The persistent poor utilization of health facilities needs to ... See full document

... The hazard regression models for union formation transitions use age groups as the baseline. Women become at risk of union formation at the age of 15, and age is categorized as under 20, 20‒24, 25‒29, 30‒34, ... See full document

... (30, 35, and 45), showing the share of delayed marriages that were recuperated by these ...age 35 was 9% among the 1965–1970 cohort, but rose to 14% and 19% for the 1971–1975 and 1976–1980 cohorts ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows that between ages 25 to 35 the proportion of childless women being followed up for four years is much lower than the proportion of women with at least one child. It is only from age 45 onwards that ... See full document

... This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other ... See full document

... For example, the proportion of sexually active women who are infecund in Asian countries is much higher than in Latin American countries (Stover 1998). There is no direct evidence tha[r] ... See full document

... We use instrumental variable models with multiple births as instruments to examine the causal effects of family size on the health outcomes of children, as measured by receiving medici[r] ... See full document

... variable. Second, we re-estimate the main models, using the father’s country of birth instead of the mother’s country of birth. Third, we include additional control variables at the individual level (i.e., religious ... See full document

... supplementary materials (Table S.2 and Table S.3). “Age group” measures respondents’ age in five categories: 18–25 (ref.), 26–35, 36–45, 46–55 and 56–65 years. “Relative age” measures the difference between the ... See full document

... Whereas the dissolution risk of directly married couples went down in Europe during the diffusion of premarital cohabitation, the family dissolution risk of children born within marr[r] ... See full document

... Demographic and Health Survey data from 31 African countries confirm that there are many instances in which women have several years of primary school but cannot read.. In fact, in some[r] ... See full document

... After discussing the rationale for including social network indices in the GGS, we provide descriptive information on social network characteristics and an overview of substantive ques[r] ... See full document

... Mexico’s cohabitation boom of the 2000s was driven by cohorts born after 1975, whose cohabiting unions are less likely to transition to marriage than those formed by earlier cohorts.. [r] ... See full document

... Women who marry someone they have known for a short time and whose relationship is not embedded in family ties are more likely to divorce early.. These impulsive marriages reflect cha[r] ... See full document

... In this paper we propose the use of the inhomogeneous K -function (Baddeley, Møller, and Waagepetersen 2000) to study spatial attraction in the household locations of some groups of fore[r] ... See full document

... H3: If all else is held constant, the association between favourable labour market experiences and earlier transitions to first marriage will be stronger for Egyptian men than for Egyp[r] ... See full document