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... While these studies begin to improve epidemiological understanding of how marriage relates to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, a decidedly sociological approach to this relationship is far less common – clear ... See full document

... Scatterplots also show that date-of-last-birth estimates tend to be lower than own- children estimates. While estimates from different methods should be located along the line of identity (X=Y), date-of-last-birth rates ... See full document

... 1990-2000 with the actual estimated pattern given by the Sample Registration Survey (Registrar General of India 1999). For the early pattern, the age-specific proportional pattern which is currently seen in Andhra ... See full document

... Figure 1 depicts Kaplan–Meier curves representing the fraction of unmarried individuals among illegitimate children, orphans who experienced parental death before age 16 (full, maternal, and paternal), and non-orphans. ... See full document

... Alghero is a large costal town in north-western Sardinia that, before national unification (1861), formed part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, along with the regions of Piedmont and Liguria (Figure 1). The first Italian ... See full document

... The sequences in the Medium Instability category (n=340) have a score between 1 and 1.1. Most trajectories here present one relatively brief period of unemployment/part-time employment, which in general starts around age ... See full document

... These conclusions were based on the comparison of selected and control lines. However, if the actual mean longevity values are considered, longevity decreased during selection in both short-lived and control lines (by ... 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 ... See full document

... the 25–29 age ...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

... (This argument hinges on the assumption that the difference between the top 50% richest and bottom 50% in our sample is representative of the difference between the rich and the poor i[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

... 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

... 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 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

... 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

... 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

... this article focuses on the transition from the first to second parity, with particular interest in the ways in which educational attainment and enrolment status have influenced progression from first to second ... See full document

... older than those in different-sex cohabiting unions and somewhat younger than those in different-sex marriages. The race/ethnic distributions for those in same-sex male and female unions are similar, although those in ... See full document