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... A variety of parametric models pre- senting the fertility rates as a function of age have been proposed in order to describe the age-specific fertility pattern.. Some of them provide nic[r] ... See full document

... The statistical model controls for women’s sociodemographic characteristics and those of their marriages. In examining the effect of women’s decision-making autonomy on enrollment it is important to include in the ... 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 whole ... See full document

... estimated 25 - 30% of marriages in Poland occur as a result of a pregnancy, the postponement of marriages by itself does not necessarily explain the postponement of ... See full document

... Population health is indexed by life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, all-cause mortality, and a variety of age-, gender-, and cause-specific mortality rates. As deaths are rare in the youngest age groups and for ... See full document

... We used these independent variables in two ways. First, each question was tested for its relationship with the dependent variable (whether a household has at least one member a current migrant) separately. Only the first ... See full document

... Figure 2 displays first-marriage risks across age and sex in the years 1991−2007 without any additional factors included. In this particular figure only, men and women of ages 56−75 are also included to reveal any ... See full document

... ages 25–29, and by four at ages ...aged 25–29 with completed secondary school, by 19 among women with completed higher education, and by 26 among women aged 30–34 with both secondary and tertiary level ... See full document

... the 20 th century, Spain had one of the highest fertility levels in Europe and was a laggard country regarding fertility decline, but in the early 1990s it became a forerunner in lowest-low fertility, exhibiting ... See full document

... 18- 25 years when individuals “examine the life possibilities open to them and gradually arrive at more enduring choices in love, work and world views” (Arnett ... See full document

... Initial long-distance moves that are followed by additional long- distance moves have about the same ratio of employment to housing related reasons but significantl[r] ... See full document

... The second observation is that the introduction of sex-selective abortion as an option in family planning makes it possible for a stopping rule (or combination of rules) to affect the [r] ... See full document

... Continuous change of causes through time is more problematic. In the removal model, the quotients of the longitudinal « frozen » table are immediately reached, owing to instantaneous adjustment. But with a change in ... See full document

... This article uses life history calendar (LHC) data from coastal Ghana and event history statistical methods to examine inter-regional migration for men and women, focusing on four specific migration types: ... 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

... Studies of teenage childbearing and its socioeconomic consequences have been concerned about possible omitted variables and selection biases that are critical to estimate the “true” ef[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

... Although they do not propose LCLE as an indicator of tempo-adjusted life expectancy, they interpret this correspondence as a piece of evidence, in the linear shift scenario, that curre[r] ... See full document

... Findings that in the absence of better data mainly would have formed the basis for speculation and formulation of hypotheses now can stand as they are: The first-birth fert[r] ... See full document

... Given prior evidence on infant health outcomes such as low birth weight (Acevedo- Garcia, Soobader, and Berkman 2005; Janevic, Savitz, and Janevic 2011; Acevedo- Ga[r] ... See full document