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... Andorka demonstrates the possible effects of population policy through the analysis of census data broken down by education level (Andorka, 1987, p. 287ff). According to the results, the childbearing propensity of ... See full document

... to 18 months before the survey). As a result there is a mismatch of 18+9 months between the timing of the measurement of the proximate determinants at the time of the survey and 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

... Hamilton’s conclusions about the inevitability of senescence depend on the nature of the perturbations described here by (6) and (18) — that is, additive perturbations to mortality or fertility, respectively. ... See full document

... Under the previous parental leave regime, the total leave length was six months, of which two weeks were allotted to the father (from 1998 and onwards). The benefits were usually paid at a low flat rate and thus not ... See full document

... In Austria, the proportion of the population aged 65+ will grow from 18% in 2012 to 24% by 2030, mainly as a result of the aging of the baby-boom generation born in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This means that ... See full document

... analysis controlling for sampling weights and variance at the PSU and household level 10 to test the probability of kin marriage according to land and enterprise ownerships of the respondent’s natal household in 2006. ... See full document

... Sequence analysis is well suited to the analysis of life course patterns, because it implements the theoretical concept of a holistic “trajectory” rather than focusing on a discrete “transition” (Aisenbrey and Fasang ... See full document

... Another distinctive feature of the Italian situation is the rigidity with which individual and contextual factors affect the various stages of the life cycle: end of education, entry into the labour market, exit from the ... See full document

... These traditional norms are giving way to new patterns, many of which have been described by scholars in the past as signs of the second demographic transition (Cochran and O’Kane 1977; Lesthaeghe and Neels 2002). One of ... See full document

... anthropometric measures, which are, in this case, largely significant. Some changes are conversely present as far as deaths from illness are considered. In this case, the protective effect associated with an urban ... See full document

... Drawing on previous research and different theoretical perspectives relevant to the relationships between migration and fertility, we address three central questions concerning the child[r] ... See full document

... Moreover, Statistics Canada and various researchers have warned that tackling the discontinuity of ICD’s sequences can be complex and needs to be approached with caution (Statistique Canada 1984; Meslé 1997). ... See full document

... Examples of promising research topics in the biodemographic aspects of ecology, evolution and behavior include studies concerned with eco-gerontological rules that describe the relations[r] ... See full document

... this article, we study the relationship between polygyny and HIV infection in rural Malawi and try to disentangle the process that leads to different infection rates in polygynous and monogamous ... See full document

... To capture the relationship between son preference, marriage and the value of children, we introduce the notion of perceived present values of married and unmarried sons and daughters (A[r] ... See full document

... We may compare this data with the results of the survey carried out in the framework of the Population Microcensus of 1994, which took place under the evident influence of the social s[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 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

... Regression-based measures indicate an increase in relative mortality differentials among males at working ages in the 1980s, and a decrease in absolute mortality differentials[r] ... See full document