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... We compare the observed and hypothetical mortality rates through directly age- standardized death rates for the population aged 80 years and above (SDRs, per 1,000 population). For this purpose, the rates are calculated ... See full document

... The results of Table 1 indicate that male stillbirth rates surpass female rates. Both rates are higher for the foreign group than for the Spanish group. Stillbirths are more frequent among primiparous women than for ... See full document

... As illustrated in Table 2, only 34.4 percent of the women gave an indication that they can reject sexual intercourse from their husbands if and when they so desire, while the remaining majority (65.6 percent) believed it ... See full document

... Here, we add to the micro-level evidence on the fertility transition in the US by examining occupational differentials in fertility, along with change in these differentials, in the frontier state of Utah in the late ... See full document

... differences between East and West Germany might explain the higher and earlier fertility in the East? First, childcare facilities are still much better in the East, and it continues to be easier to combine full-time ... See full document

... at ages 1, 2, 3 and 4 and reaches a maximum at age 5 of 50.44, with an inverse value of 0.0198. At age 4 the central death rate is 0.0237 > 0.0199, the inverse of remaining life expectancy at age 4, whereas at ... See full document

... over 29 for men in the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Finland, and Norway; over 25 among women in most Western European countries, and under 25 among women in most Eastern European countries) (Eurostat ... See full document

... The raw data for Costa Rica (see Supplementary archive, S1. Raw “Input Data” for Costa Rica) comprises official vital statistics, population estimates, and census counts available online (Centro Centroamericano de ... 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 ... See full document

... The DEAS provides data on highest educational attainment coded according to the ISCED scheme. Because more differentiated educational categories means fewer cases in each, we dichotomized educational level into higher ... See full document

... the bio-demographic factors, multiple birth, children born before 1980, and those of teenage mothers face significantly higher risks of dying before age 5 than others. These results are similar to those from other ... See full document

... Cox proportional hazards regression model estimates show that, after controlling for socio- demographic characteristics and initial health status, the total resilience score and most f[r] ... See full document

... being positively and significantly associated with educational level for women but not for men. This result confirms the hypothesis that higher qualifications also allow greater reside[r] ... See full document

... Sweden stands out as having the second (to Iceland) highest proportion of births occurring out of marriage (Thomson 2005). Furthermore, Sweden experienced the earliest steep increase in nonmarital childbearing. In 1960, ... 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

... In the two bottom panels of Table 3, we present the posterior model probabilities for all 27 models fitted to each of the four time periods described above. As with the full sample in the top panel, the low posterior ... See full document

... The own-children method was designed to study fertility using census data so that fertility could be related to characteristics collected by the census but not recorded in vital statistics (Cho, Rutherford, and Choe ... 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

... Explicit decompositions of chronological age groups into remaining lifespan classes is, to our knowledge, only found in Brouard (1986), who redistributed population pyramids by remaining[r] ... 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