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... The National Center for Health Statistics has estimated that about 6% of female and 3% of male deaths are missed in the linkage to the NDI, with higher percentages estimated for non-whit[r] ... See full document

... at 60 birth cohorts, this finding is not surprising, especially in a country with traditional attitudes to female employment and male involvement in care, and inadequate support for families, which makes it more ... See full document

... Previous studies on migrant fertility in Spain have shown that these hypotheses are complementary rather than mutually exclusive (Roig and Castro-Martín 2007). The fertility of Latin American migrant women residing in ... See full document

... We use EU-SILC 2011 data for the measurement of disability. We apply the Global Activity Limitation Index (GALI) as an indicator for measuring ability limitations in Europe (Van Oyen et al. 2006). It uses a single ... See full document

... The results presented in this paper are based on deaths and population estimates from official sources. In Armenia and Georgia the most recent censuses produced lower- than-expected population counts, likely due to ... See full document

... We found decreasing trend parameters in the male and female cancer burden for most tumor sites. For lung cancer, however, we forecast a strong decrease in future incidence and mortality risk for males but a further ... See full document

... financial hardship; less secure working environment and scarcer employment opportunities; cuts in government-sponsored social policies; and a decrease in affordable housing – or to put it a bit more vaguely, simply ... See full document

... Relationships (16) and (17) provide an approximate estimate of how period gains in life expectancy are transformed on a cohort basis. Consider individuals that were born in 2010 in a country with a period life expectancy ... See full document

... As Kohler, Billari, and Ortega (2002) point out, Italy was, together with Spain, the first country to reach the threshold of so-called lowest-low fertility, i.e., below 1.3 children per woman. It is well established that ... See full document

... last 60 years, Slovakia has experienced comparatively high and most recently very low fertility, long periods of stable fertility alternating with periods of changes, periods of substantial as well as lesser state ... See full document

... The United Nations Population Division issued official probabilistic population projec- tions for all countries for the first time in 2015 (United Nations 2015), using the method- ology described by Raftery et al. ... See full document

... In order to address right hand censoring and truncation we use discrete-time event history models (Mills 2011). For the transition to a second birth the process time denotes the number of years since the first ... See full document

... Our methodological approach is complementary (cf. Small 2011). By combining information from qualitative interviews with quantitative analyses of survey data, we get a better understanding of the reasons for ... See full document

... Unpaid time for household production and servicing represents a relevant contribution of families and especially of women to welfare. A large body of time use literature has shown the existence of a significant gender ... See full document

... Ellis 2011), but less is known about peer countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, and research documenting these households cross-nationally is ... See full document

... In order to increase the likelihood that respondents complete the retrieval and judgment steps in an optimal manner, survey designers should implement strategies that increase respondent motivation and reduce cognitive ... See full document

... This note will review trends in female deficit at birth in Korea and use population projections to assess future imbalances at marriageable ages, separating the roles of SRB and cohort[r] ... See full document

... Until the 1990s, the future population decline was not clearly evident to non-demographers due to more than 30 years of immigration from other republics of ex-Yugoslavia (between 1975 [r] ... See full document

... This article draws on an extreme case to reveal how social status shapes relationship formation between women and men: In particular, we examine how the status hierarchy among Greek organizations structures the ... See full document

... This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other ... See full document