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... limitation faced by most social surveys everywhere but in developing countries in particular.. birth suggest that the disparities between children born to young versus older mothers [r] ... See full document

... During the early phases of the health and family planning programmes in India, sterilisation services were introduced only in few Indian states for men especially in large cities such [r] ... See full document

... The expectations about the dominant behavior in the social context were then measured with a three-category variable: the first category consisted of those married men who said[r] ... See full document

... In this study we examine correlates of four different residential arrangements in Flanders: sole mother, sole father, joint physical custody, and a new custody option, flexible custody[r] ... See full document

... spent 28 months in age group 25–29, and eight months in age group 30–34; she gave birth to one child in the three years preceding the survey, when she was aged ... See full document

... Whereas Model 1 shows a strong positive association between the concentration of orphans and children’s school enrollment, Model 2 demonstrates that the association is curvilinear: in [r] ... See full document

... Given that the long term ‘floor’ figure of 1.85 is significantly higher than the fertility Europe has experienced over the past 30 years and the recent ultra-low fertility experiences [r] ... See full document

... Evolutionary theories of aging have faced the opposition of Sacher (1978). He considered that “the implication that… organisms are mortal only because of the accumulation of adventitious senescence genes, is more easily ... See full document

... Odds ratios from the pooled models for women’s HIV infection, a history of marriage to circumcised spouses only (as compared to those ever-married to an uncircumcised spouse), and Bala[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

... While for men Part-Time Employed and Unemployed comprise the unstable state, for women, however, we include only unemployment periods as instability, given the fact that in a large numbe[r] ... See full document

... The demographic data used in this study are taken from civil records of birth, death, and marriage which were introduced in Sardinia in 1866, as decreed by the newly unifie[r] ... See full document

... We present a comprehensive description and initial results from our recently completed Migration & HIV in Ghana (MHG) study of migration, sexual networks, and HIV risk behavior in [r] ... 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

... We treat couples as the unit of analysis and use discrete-time hazard models to examine: (1) how the timing and parity of births influence the occurrence of migration (to t[r] ... See full document

... Family policies, based on the principle of equality across social groups and gender, seem to play an important role in keeping fertility relatively high.. In combination wit[r] ... See full document

... The Standardized Ratio of Multiple to Underlying cause (SRMU) is defined as the ratio of the second to the first of these two rates. It measures the underestimation of the role played [r] ... See full document

... (i.e., 28 and 25 for urban men and women, and 25 and 23 for rural men and women), long birth intervals (four years in the cities and three years in the countryside) between the first and subsequent childbirths, ... See full document

... After having discussed the historical background and hypotheses, we will describe the data, methods, and variables. In this article, the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) 2010.01 release is exploited, ... See full document

... Fifty years ago, in the first issue of the first volume of the then-new journal Demogra- phy, Nathan Keyfitz described the “population projection as a matrix operator” (Keyfitz 1964). He showed that population ... See full document