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... sectors. 15 Since research has also shown the population structure of places to be significantly linked to local poverty rates, we examine four variables related to county-level population structure: net ... See full document

... Turkey has experienced intensive social and economical change since the early 20 th century. The size and structure of its population have changed along with alterations of society. Turkish population trends can ... See full document

... The economic decline in the first years of transformation caused deterioration in standards of living, and pushed various social and economic groups into poverty. According to data from Statistics Lithuania, a social ... See full document

... this article is to describe and analyze mortality trends in Catalonia during the last four decades, starting with the beginning of the ...the 15 Western European countries of the European Union (former ... See full document

... Malawi is among countries with the highest HIV prevalence, with an estimated national prevalence of 11.8% of adults aged 15-49 infected (Demographic and Health Surveys, 2004). The epidemic in Africa is ... See full document

... Apart from smoking-related cancers Israeli Jewish males also demonstrate survival advantage relative to other males for other major behaviourally induced types of mortality: external causes (broadly related to risk ... See full document

... the bias is when education averages over the rather small DHS samples of women in each PSU are used as proxies for the corresponding population averages. The focus is on a model for first births, and recent DHS data for ... See full document

... Korogocho and Viwandani are located about 5-10 km from the city centre and 3 km from each other. These two settlements are home to nearly 23,000 households. The total population in the two slums grew from about 53,000 in ... See full document

... age 15, self- evaluated economic status of her family at age 15, family structure at age 15, number of siblings, urban/rural residence at age 15, high school type, and birth year ... See full document

... These periods differ not only in the intensity of events (deaths), but also in the causes of the events. In the case of neo-natal and perinatal mortality, deaths mostly result from fetal malformation, low birth weight, ... See full document

... whether the variable is more strongly associated with first births for women or men and a (+) or (-) depending on whether the variable for the sex with the larger association is positively or negatively associated with ... See full document

... The NSFG has two concerns worth mentioning. One is that the sampling frame of the survey (age 15 – 44) results in an average interview age of about 30. This means that most marriages are censored by an interview ... See full document

... this article estimates cross-sectional effects on the probability of being childless, contrasting results across three age or cohort groups (women aged 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49 in ... See full document

... Table 3 reports the responses in terms of number of beans to the questions about going to the market, experiencing a food shortage, having to rely on family members, infant mortality, be[r] ... See full document

... While the number of deaths is not recorded quite precisely in Brazil, the discrepancies shown in this article are large enough to suggest the centenarian population is exaggerated in the census. The consequences ... See full document

... Furthermore, I construct a time-varying covariate of schooling to higher education, i.e., four-year university or two-year junior college. In the absence of retrospective educational histories, I manipulate the calendar ... See full document

... this article, we extend this research by examining the relationship between military service and the likelihood that cohabiting unions will be converted into ... See full document

... Contrary to prior assumption, not being involved in economic activity is not conducive to higher chances of fertility, since inactivity in Lomé is not significantly associated with hig[r] ... See full document

... This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and poverty for Indonesia, a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility decline over recent decades. We ... See full document

... Most importantly, EU-SILC is the only source that can be used to study individuals’ residential moves in relation to other demographic events in the context of Italy. Therefo[r] ... See full document