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... Czech society of 2010 is typified by high proportions of never-married young adults, high proportions of divorced adults, and lower shares of widowed people (Table 2).. Two [r] ... See full document

... Equation (12) seems redundant, but is less obvious when put into words: The proba- bility of dying y years in the future given survival to chronological age a is the probability of surviving to chronological age ... See full document

... Although the latest data from the Ukrainian statistical bureau already shows a slight increase in births compared to previous years, demographers in Ukraine question whether the assistance will actually raise fertility ... See full document

... Quality of child health care and under-five mortality in Zambia: A case study of two districts in Luapula Province.. Augustus Kasumpa Kapungwe 1.[r] ... See full document

... For each of the 56 countries in our sample, we fit a series of binomial logistic regressions to individual-level data and define migration as a binary outcome, that is, individuals have migrated or not during the ... See full document

... Death Distribution Methods are designed to estimate the completeness of death registration relative to population counts. The two most well-established methods are the General Growth Balance method (GGB, Brass 1975; Hill ... See full document

... The population age structure of England and Wales is shaped by the patterns of births and deaths over many age ranges, but not between the mid-teenage years and the mid- 30s (Figure 5). At these ages, substantial net ... See full document

... is 12 to 15 months, expectations about the duration of unemployment must logically coincide with this period for the substitution effect to be meaningful (Kravdal ... See full document

... The nomadic way of life of a large portion of the Mongolian population in the early decades of the 20 th century could have had implications for birth intervals. While nomadism in Mongolia involved traditionally few ... See full document

... The survey estimates were derived in slightly different ways that could produce differences between them and between each set of estimates and the register-based estimates. The Swedish Fertility and Family Survey was ... See full document

... Survival data analysis methods – Kaplan-Meier graphs for the descriptive analysis and piecewise exponential models for the multivariate analysis – are used to examine the impact over time of the occurrence of an event, ... See full document

... Lagos, although clearly the Nigerian melting pot, still remains primarily a Yoruba city. The ethnic composition shows a high representation of the Yoruba people (57.1 percent). The Igbo constitute the second largest ... See full document

... observations in the 5 counties with a weather station are included. (6): Unclustered robust standard errors. (7): Standard errors are clustered at the county level. (8): Eq. 1 estimated by a Probit regression. Average ... See full document

... The lack of significant differences in disruption risks between housewives and employed women who work full time or part time can be related to the limited influence of women’s work stra[r] ... See full document

... The estimated coefficient for the earliest years covered is, unexpectedly, weakly negative (Figure 1). There are several possible explanations for this. The weak ass[r] ... See full document

... Bean, Mineau, and Anderton demonstrate the importance of geographic fertility differentials within Utah, so we also control for the woman‟s birth along the more densely populated Wasatch Front (Utah, Salt Lake, Weber, ... See full document

... The subsections introduce the autoregression models, stochastic volatility, random variance shifts, Bayesian inference and model uncertainty used in this paper.. Let p t be the populatio[r] ... See full document

... Variables that have a confirmed influence on stillbirth risk, such as weight at birth, duration of gestation, mother’s age, limited schooling, etc., express that in[r] ... See full document

... Compared to the respective levels in the countries of origin, the share of extra-marital births at the total number of births of immigrant women to West Germany is higher, [r] ... See full document

... Furthermore, despite their similarity in educational attainment and in the process of development with women in the Mazandarani-predominated region, including these factors in the anal[r] ... See full document