[PDF] Top 20 Volume 34 - Article 18 | Pages 499–524

... To calculate nonresponse rates it is necessary to start from a comprehensive definition and classification of all possible outcomes that a sample unit might result in. Figure 1 presents all possible negative outcomes of ... See full document

... The example in Figure 1 shows age-mortality-health-specific components of the difference between female health expectancies at age 20 in West Germany and Poland. Health-weights are calculated from the data on ... See full document

... estimated directly. However, consumption is not observed and certain assumptions are necessary. For children and elderly care activities, we regress production on the number of individuals of each age group, divided into ... See full document

... than 18 living with them, (2) whether the parent has any children aged less than 18 living apart from them, (3) whether the parent has any children aged 18 through 23 living with them, and (4) ... See full document

... The demographic transition in China took place at an extraordinarily rapid pace (Coale 1984; Hussain 2002). It has often been attributed to the Chinese government’s effective family planning policy (Greenhalgh and ... See full document

... with 18%) and the results found to be consistent with those obtained when observations with missing education values were included in the models (results not ... See full document

... The International Social Survey Program (ISSP), which is the largest programme of cross-national research in the social sciences, collected network data in 1986 and in 2001. The ISSP has opted for a role-relation ... See full document

... Some aspects of the changes in the transition to adulthood in China resemble those of the West, especially the prolonged education and delayed labor force participation. However, the changes are modest. Chinese young ... See full document

... Our exploratory study of the relationships between housework-sharing and perceived fairness regarding domestic tasks clearly demonstrates that these factors in combination reflect different types of couples rather than ... See full document

... Another important finding is that perceived physical environments (amenities and air quality) are associated with lower odds of social stress and chronic diseases among urban natives,[r] ... See full document

... WOC respondents, like Edith, often appear to be going along with what the interviewer is saying as a response to a formulation. To say “no” to a formulation, a respondent must do more interactional work, particularly ... See full document

... Postponement of marriage is associated with lower third-birth intensity: The latter diminishes by 34% when comparing women who married before they reached age 20 with women who married after age 26. The close link ... See full document

... 34 years at arrival. We do not go above age 35 at arrival so as to ensure that women remain in the main reproductive age range during the five-year follow-up period, and also to minimize the possibility that ... See full document

... Persons who are embedded in this kind of network perceive more social pressure regarding family formation, anticipate strong network support in case of parenthood, and, because of [r] ... See full document

... However, if we compare co-resident kin with non-resident kin, we see that mothers-in-law have a significantly positive effect on progression, though only when women do not have living [r] ... See full document

... The inconsistency score, coded continuously from 0 to 3, measures the number of items (educational attainment, number of children ever born, and number of lifetime sexual partners) for[r] ... See full document

... Conditional age-specific fertility rates provide a more complete account of the evolution of fertility. Firstly, if we consider all birth orders combined, these rates show that fertility levels have decreased in all ... See full document

... Baizan, Beauchemin, and González-Ferrer (2014) found that Senegalese migrants with partners in the origin country who have the potential to adapt to labor market circumstances in Eur[r] ... See full document

... Five different specifications were used: overall immigrant status (specification 1 ); first- (foreign-born) versus second-generation immigrants (Norwegian-born with two immigrant [r] ... See full document

... Pooling data from the 2006 ‒ 2010 and 2011 ‒ 2013 NSFG, we fill this gap in the literature by focusing on the largest Hispanic national origin group, Mexican Americans, and assessing t[r] ... See full document