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... In Figure 6 we plot the relative performance values according to (5) for Sweden and Japan in 1900-2005. As already seen in Figure 3, Japan has a mixed mortality history. This is also true for its relative ... See full document

... Typically, the older parents in our study met each other at an older age than the young parents, and also had their first child later into the partnership. In the NKPS samples the relationships in which the first child ... See full document

... than 5%, while others have currently reached nearly ...and 5 were essentially universal, while the coverage rate for children under 3 was (and still is) very heterogeneous at the regional level, and where ... See full document

... range 5+ to 65+ is preferable to using the age range 15+ to ...of 5+ to 65+) performs best overall for both 45 q 15 and 25 q 60 , although median and mean ... See full document

... Each congregation leader participated in a structured interview, completing a 12-page questionnaire that covered six key areas. We asked each leader about (1) what they believe the Bible (or Koran) has to say – if ... See full document

... The estimated proportion of each cohort ending in marital disruption, , is presented in Table 3, in columns (3) and (4), and in Figure 4 (baseline estimate). Given that the estimation inevitably contains some error, a ... See full document

... Even more impressive is the overlap between the vulnerability index and mortality due to diabetes (ICD10: E100–E149; Figure 5), an important disease that often has a negative impact on mortality from ... See full document

... These conclusions cannot be generalized for all migrant sub-groups, however. We also tested our working hypothesis on within-migrant variation (Hypothesis 5). For both women and men, the gain effect of the ... See full document

... Adult mortality among women of childbearing age more than doubled between 1985-1994 and 1996-1999, and increased by 40 percent between 1996-1999 and 2000- 2005. Close to 60 percent of these extra deaths were to women ... See full document

... if 5% of households belong to the subpopulation of interest and if the screening exercise could be expected to achieve a 60% response rate, then to obtain a sample of 3,000 households it would be necessary to ... See full document

... For every country in the cross-age-scenarios, the slope for death rates (Figure 2) is notably less than 2. The country with the highest slope, 1.86, is France. By contrast, in the cross-age-scenarios, the slope for rates ... See full document

... First, respondents needed to be in or have been in a relationship, either a consensual union or marriage, for at least one year. 5 Second, we selected couples that were LATAB for at least one year. Third, from ... See full document

... Since international labour migration from Tajikistan is a relatively recent phenomenon, its impact on completed fertility levels is not yet clear. Lindstrom and Giorguli Saucedo (2002; 2007) show that Mexican couples are ... See full document

... Table 5, Model 1 shows that participation in an ICT screen-viewing activity was not related to BMI for men in urban areas, and this pattern remains after controlling for SES indicators (Model ...Model 5 ... See full document

... Table 5, Black and Mexican young adults’ lower tendency to enter and to remain in college partially explains their delayed timing of home-leaving and their higher risk of home-returning relative to ... See full document

... To what extent does collecting migrants’ contacts in the country of origin allows one to reach a sufficient number of migrants at the destination? One of our most striking results is that the origin-based snowballing ... 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

... (61%) of the Dutch population (Fokkema and Esveldt 2006). The underlying motive for the Dutch government to implement parental leave on a part-time basis is to encourage part-time work rather than to encourage an ... See full document

... The daily total numbers of deaths, as well as the number of deaths in selected age groups and social classes, were related to the daily average temperatures using regression models for[r] ... See full document

... In the stable population, constant vital rates yield (linear) exponential growth in the number of births, while in the metastable model net maternity that increases exponentially over ag[r] ... See full document