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... To evaluate accuracy of individual’s subjective perceptions about HIV infection, we use two measures of risk perception from the MDICP-3: worry of AIDS infection (“How worried are you [r] ... See full document

... the 20 th century, the divorce rate and the proportion of never married in Israeli Jewish population remained low, and its fertility remained relatively high 6 ... See full document

... In fact, both TFR and PATFR, and its components by birth order, are affected by annual changes in the mean age at birth. Thus, we introduce another measure, TFRp*, to describe potential tempo distortions in the results ... See full document

... coresidential partnership existed, produced a child, and the transition to coresidence or marriage (closely) followed the birth of that child. Following this 12-month rule, a further 991 first births (2%) and 555 second ... See full document

... In all columns, newlywed couples (i.e., at zero years of marriage duration) in capture-based marriages turn out to have a significantly lower profile similarity index than newlywed couples in love marriages, and at least ... See full document

... Persons in marital unions are significantly less likely to in-migrate into the slum communities. With regard to household characteristics, there is no significant difference by access to sanitation for both in-migration ... See full document

... The following problem has been posed by several European Academies of Sciences, in particular in the ASA, in the context of a clear aging trend: How can we counteract this trend, while making only minor changes to the ... See full document

... Equation (1) and its proof first appear in Keyfitz (1968:186, equation (7.4.3)). A ver- sion of equation (1) is also discussed in Coale (1972:28, equation (2.27)). However, the foundations of Equation (1) can be traced ... See full document

... The risk of disrupting a first parental union hardly changed over our first two periods (1965-1973, and 1974-middle of 1983), notwithstanding the large increase in female labor force participation which took place at ... 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

... A more direct test to evaluate whether respondents understand the concept of proba- bilistic expectations is to analyze nested events. Nested events are subsets of each other, and thus imply an ordering of the subjective ... See full document

... The change in the geographical distribution of the youth population is another important factor affecting nest-leaving behaviors in post-war Japan. In previous studies, young adults living in small towns or in rural ... See full document

... Most international differences, however, are found among age groups 35-64 and 65+. In comparison with the EU15, Catalan middle-aged men observed lower mortality levels throughout the four decades, as have the ... See full document

... Figures 6 and 7 show the hazard and survivor functions of four more ‘realistic’ groups of ...Figures 6 and 7 show that there is a difference of two months in the average birth- conception interval between ... See full document

... Childbearing trends in Sweden have been highly volatile throughout the four last decades of the 20 th century. First-birth fertility of younger women (16-28 years) decreased continuously from the mid-1960s to the ... See full document

... one asked for the month and year of birth of the person. A second question asked for the presumable age in years and months and was used when the person did not know her date of birth. Missing data for individuals who ... See full document

... which 20% of each cohort has experienced a birth), although we find somewhat stronger evidence of a growing educational gradient over time using the absolute ...which 20% of the cohort has had a first ... See full document

... age 20 (by the growth stages of teeth and the closures of epiphyses) while for adults aged 20–40 there is no precise way of determining age at death and the age of individuals over 40 years old cannot be ... See full document

... For the eight European countries studied, the authors found a positive association between the gender index and both the total number of children that men aged 20-44 expected and the actual number of children ever ... 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