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... = 1 for Taiwan and i = 2 for Japan. As the volume of the Japanese data is much larger than that of the Taiwanese data used, the estimation of the common mortality index is largely determined by the former, ... 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

... Our second hypothesis predicted that women who engage in a large share of household labour (>75%) would have lower fertility intentions. In the first model, we see no significant difference between the two groups of ... See full document

... exceed 30-40% when the ICC dips below ...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

... e 30 (t) appears to have a dynamics of its own, as one would expect from an indicator reflecting changes in the epidemiological environment of a ...CAL 30 , in comparison, appears as a “response” indicator, ... 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

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... 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

... Other studies have shown that much of the difference in mortality between highly and poorly educated men in Russia is due to the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the latter group and, to a lesser extent, ... 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

... metropolitan areas were chosen from each of the five quintiles of ordered sales prices. The selected metropolitan areas ranged from Toledo, Ohio, with the lowest median sales price of $92,000, to San Francisco, with a ... See full document

... Table 1 presents the distribution of adults aged 18-79 in France according to their couple ...at 1%, while the proportion of people having a second residence where they live alone is estimated at 3% (not ... 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

... 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 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

... ber 1, ...September 1, 1939 (the region ceded by the Soviet Union in 1940 (Karelia) is treated as a separate county even though those territories originally belonged to the same county as the part of ... See full document