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... In CRELES, a few foreigners ( n =49) were censored early, at the date of last contact. The unweighted number of deaths was 579 in CRELES and 140 in SEBAS.. parameters for a given as[r] ... See full document

... These immigration figures are large in comparison to other European countries and clearly reflect the size of recent migration inflows to Spain. By contrast, the size of the second generation (Spanish-born descendants of ... See full document

... that contemporary youth are leaving college with considerably higher levels of debt than their counterparts in 1993. However, other economic and demographic trends that shape young adulthood for college graduates mirror ... See full document

... Since our dependent variable is birth of a child, we create variables defining the labor-market activity in such a manner as to indicate the main economic activity of a parent during the year prior to observation. This ... See full document

... All countries participating in comparisons possess well developed systems of vital registration and population accounts. The use of mortality records of these countries is widely accepted, and in most cases there are no ... See full document

... Spousal age difference. We base our measure of gender relations on spousal age differences, one of the few indicators of gender relations, which are generally quantifiable and comparable across time, space, and social ... See full document

... to 30% in 2014 and the proportion of fathers with higher secondary educational qualifications but no tertiary degree increased from a quarter to ...stable. 7 A smaller proportion of fathers were not in ... See full document

... The SES domain includes respondent’s education at Wave 1, household wealth measured at baseline, and urbanicity of barangay measured at baseline. Education is categorized as elementary or less (0 to 6 years), high school ... See full document

... At this time there are 37 demographic surveillance system sites active in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Central America, and this number is growing continuously. These sites and other longitudinal population and health ... See full document

... Yicheng’s two-child policy includes the following measures: 1) All couples are encouraged to delay marriage, to postpone parenthood, and to have fewer children; 2) The ‘one child per couple’ norm is enthusiastically ... See full document

... Human capital theory suggests that employment opportunities are determined by workers’ education, training, skills, expertise, and other competencies (Becker 1991). Education and other attributes should enhance relative ... See full document

... Table 4 tells us what happens with the children who are born in a union, which in all countries is the dominating group of children, when it comes to their experience of any dissolution of their family of origin. The ... See full document

... Based on multi-stage stratified sampling using data from 10% of 260,000 surveyed districts from the 2005 National Census, a total of 9,068 households, including 9,997 females aged between 19 and 64 from these households, ... See full document

... The social structure of Israeli Jewish society, both in religious circles and in secular society, is characterised by a significant cohesiveness and centrality of family life. Both factors imply a significant amount of ... See full document

... To operationalize the explanatory variables I have discussed earlier, the following covariates are used in the models: 1) demographic factors, i.e., the number of siblings, heir status[r] ... See full document

... To facilitate meaningful comparison between different species, with this paper we provide a systematic discussion of 1) how the time aspect of aging can be measured, 2) how pace measures[r] ... See full document

... A couple’s fertility intention and the influence of these intentions on their final decision are the result of the individual characteristics and attitudes of both partners.. It [r] ... See full document

... A major breakthrough in non-parametric inference for non-Markov multistate models was achieved by Datta and Satten (2001), who showed asymptotic unbiasedness of the Aalen- Johansen estim[r] ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the modal age, modal number of deaths, and the standard deviation from the mode for the Gompertz mortality change model of Figure 2 and equation (9), and the Siler morta[r] ... See full document

... For third births, it is very clear that couples in the high power groups (i.e., in which both spouses are highly educated, and are labelled either high/pr or high/pu ) are considera[r] ... See full document