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... We distinguished between three levels of education based on the ISCED classification (UNESCO 2006): no degree or lower secondary education (1), upper secondary education or post-secondary non-tertiary education ... See full document

... To summarize, the bias increases with decreasing absolute cluster size, given their relative size. Conversely, given the size of the PSU population, the bias increases with decreasing relative size (% extracted). The ... See full document

... identity: 1) women who identify as AI/AN only, 2) any woman who identifies as AI/AN, whether identifying one or more races, and 3) women who list a specific tribe or American Indian for the ancestry ... See full document

... The individual-level data for the empirical analysis of immigrants’ marital choices is drawn from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey (NIS), released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. This partly ... See full document

... economic downturn. We first note that shifts between 2009 and 2015 in the overall TFRs of countries differed considerably. The TFRs of the total population declined in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, the United ... See full document

... Based on the sample and shown in Figures 6 through 8, within and between sectors, noteworthy distributional differences emerge that are linked to the constructed linguistic groups. Consistently, though, native ... See full document

... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... The rural and urban difference is less salient in developed countries than in developing countries. Hence, few studies are available to date to examine the urban/rural residential relations with disability. The majority ... See full document

... conclusions: 1) Findings from two ethnographic studies of low fertility can be compared and generalised if such concepts as ‘comparison’ and ‘generalisation’ are understood in the anthropological ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document

... income, 40−44 year old Buddhist women have the lowest number of children ever born of any religious group, approximately half a child lower than the Christian majority (who have about ... 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

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the ... See full document

... metropolitan areas were chosen from each of the five quintiles of ordered sales prices. The selected metropolitan areas ranged from Toledo, Ohio, with the lowest median sales price of $92,000, to San Francisco, with a ... See full document

... (approximately 1% of the total population aged below 16) are in foster care, and the annual number of new placements is approximately 4,000 (National Institute for Health and Welfare ... See full document

... The binary regressions for the main variables indicated that, after other factors are controlled for, mothers who were older and whose youngest child was older were less likely to report the intention to have another ... See full document

... The multivariate analysis shows that, for men, these observed differences in the final number of children by degree of exposure to unemployment or short-term employment are not simply linked to structural ... See full document