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... Overall the results suggest that the probability of obtaining contact information depends much more on the household than on the migrants’ variables (Table 3). Odds ratios for the latter do not vary greatly and ... See full document

... The law also regulated child-related issues in same-sex partnerships, particularly custody and adoption rights. In this regard the law was initially very restrictive, but was modified in 2005 to allow, for example, the ... See full document

... The first set of predictors captures background characteristics. Country of birth is represented by three country dummy variables with Morocco as the reference category. Respondents’ age ranged from 19 to 65. 5 Gender ... See full document

... Controlling for individual, household, and cluster-level factors, all program variables were significantly associated with modern contraceptive use (Table 3), except exposure to family planning messages in ... See full document

... The estimates shown in Models 1 through 2 are consistent with Models 2 through 3 in Table 3. The effect of spousal circumcision remains significant and stable with the addition of socio-economic ... See full document

... In this study we used data from the third wave of the European Social Survey (ESS), a repeated cross-sectional survey designed to measure social attitudes and values using face-to-face interviews. The ESS aimed to be ... See full document

... The effects of each of the nine family stopping rules on the stable population of Alpha are displayed in Table 3, assuming in each case that the rule is adopted throughout the population by all families that have ... See full document

... After the country’s pacification and the first multi-party election in the mid-1990s, Mozambique had low educational outcomes, worsened by the lack of infrastructure, paucity of schools in the rural areas, difficulty in ... See full document

... The preceding results are abstract ones. Let us be more concrete in comparing the two methods using the same example. We assume the law of mortality defined over five years with survivorship function (100, 60, 30, 10, 0, ... See full document

... Table 5 displays the multinomial logit regression results for the rural origin population at time t-1. The first columns of relative risk ratios (RRRs) for men and women are for inter-regional moves to another rural area ... See full document

... We begin with descriptive analysis, comparing households with current migrants and without current migrants by the main independent variables (had a violence event in the village in the [r] ... See full document

... Comparing partially integrated and segregated communities, partially integrated Roma women have a lower total fertility rate; their TFR is at about 3 children per woman, and lower intensity of fertility over the ... See full document

... The overall distribution of the labels in Tw-parenthood-gold provides some clues in support of polarity change, clues that vary according to the subtopic in question. On the one hand, negative polarity prevails in tweets ... See full document

... When studying all ages for males, females, and total population, a statistically significant relationship was rarely found between economic conditions and the health outcomes explored (Figure 4). When age controls were ... See full document

... Consistent with other research for South Africa (Ranchhod 2006), the elderly who receive a pension (whether social or private) are significantly less likely to be working (cluster 3). The elderly living in richer ... See full document

... we give an overview of the literature. As far as we know, we are the first to propose and apply a general framework for frontier estimation in the context of life expectancy. In other areas, especially for frontier and ... See full document

... The English-speaking countries outside Europe retained higher fertility than most of the other analysed countries. The United States saw a swift reduction in fertility in the 1940s cohorts, followed by a stabilisation ... See full document

... this article we provide a comprehensive picture of the health of children of immigrants in comparison to children of natives using recent, nationally representative ... See full document

... Historically, it is not uncommon for social changes to take place faster than expected. One example is the extraordinary fertility decline of recent decades: a few decades ago few demographers thought that fertility ... See full document

... Supporting the first interaction hypothesis, we found that living in regions characterised by lowest unemployment rates meant a clearly higher mortality risk for the long-term unemploy[r] ... See full document