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... kilometers) 5 , some of the peripheries may be regarded as middle or outer rings of metropolitan areas; hence, while officially rural, they are located within easy access of urban places and labor ... See full document

... All the above-mentioned data sources were used in subsections of the results: i) The HMD is used to study the timing of the crossing in industrialized countries; ii) The UN and WHO datab[r] ... See full document

... Figures 5 and 6, we know, without the need for any scenario modifications at all, that given changes in the vital rates would have smaller ef- fects on the number of persons with dementia than would changes in the ... See full document

... While Figure 1 indicates that fertility oscillated around 4.5 children per woman between the late 1920s and early 1950s, this evidence is based on data that likely underestimates the ‘true’ level of fertility: cohort ... See full document

... We also included a set of variables related to the respondent’s view of women’s roles, her contribution to household goods at the time of marriage, and her relationship quality. Marital relationship quality was a score ... See full document

... We used all waves of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), which followed a nationally representative cohort of U.S. children born in 2001 at approximately 9 months, 2 years, 4 years, ... See full document

... An additional significant recent change in the Brazilian religious context is the growth in the number of Evangelicals, who represented only 3.4% of the population in 1950. Sixty years later, 22.2% of Brazilians declared ... See full document

... Adult learning programs also offer formalized opportunities to learn how to read outside of the school setting (Abadzi 1994; Abadzi 2003; Lauglo 2001; Stromquist 2006). Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data show that ... See full document

... The results of the multinomial logistic regression are shown in Table 2. The dependent variable has four categories, with the most represented category “no participation” as the reference group. Three models are ... See full document

... While the rational choice theory of fertility in its original form addressed completed fertility, the topic of this study is the transition to parenthood – both whether and when a first child is born. While theories of ... See full document

... When the post-war reconstruction gave way to the economic boom that put Italy among the ranks of the industrial countries, the cleavage between the two parts of the country was still massive. The boom mostly involved the ... See full document

... Besides socio-demographic data on each household member and on the household (family structure, economic conditions, geographical area of residence), the survey provided information on the geographical distance and ... See full document

... the GHS and Understanding Society datasets. We use four categories of education: Less than Ordinary (O) Level; Ordinary (O) level; Advanced (A) level; Degree or equivalent. Ordinary (O) level qualifications are ... See full document

... Our analyses in the previous sections have emphasized various indicators of completed cohort fertility such as parity progression ratios, lifetime birth probabilities and the index of total fertility. The relevant ... See full document

... The results suggest that differences in parents’ shared time across countries are related to social norms surrounding family and general time use. Spanish society is more family-oriented and places greater emphasis on ... See full document

... comparable figure is more than 10% using the synthetic cohort estimates. Such a difference is mainly due to the fact that divorce rates rose dramatically after the new millennium in Taiwan. In other words, the various ... See full document

... Nearing age 40, half of the individuals were in what we call “stable childbearing unions” – in either their first (41%) or second (8%) union in which they became first- time parents. Again, the only gender difference was ... See full document

... Population shifts toward groups with higher unintended pregnancy rates mean that we must redouble our efforts to decrease unintended pregnancy through improvements in the education of[r] ... See full document

... (Lanzieri 2012). Provided that suitable (statistically robust) data are available, regional and international comparisons are easily accomplished using our framework. Such inter- national or interregional comparisons ... See full document

... Thus, family real estate wealth significantly and substantially increased the likelihood of death while the three variables designed to assess the healthy migrant effect (country of bi[r] ... See full document