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... The advent of reliable, modern means of contraception; access to safe and legal induced abortion; changing patterns of partnership relations; substantial changes in[r] ... See full document

... TFR) in the third row gives the bias for the models. A perfect model would have no bias. Instead, the results show that all three models have a positive bias ranging from 1.19 (births per woman) for the original model to ... See full document

... On the other side of the spectrum we find women with primary education, who seem to be a specific sub-group. These women strikingly differ in their reproductive behavior from all other groups. They form large families – ... See full document

... Although childcare is widely available and affordable (particularly for those with a below-average income), parents are under continuous stress if there is no other person to collect the child in the afternoon. Namely, ... See full document

... Table 7 presents the Austrian totals of newly diagnosed cancer cases and cancer deaths observed in 2009 and predicted for 2030, disaggregated by sex and tumor ... See full document

... Second, we regressed matrimonial expenditures on kin marriage with cluster analysis controlling for sampling weights and variance at the PSU and household level. In addressing the minimizing matrimonial expenditures ... See full document

... been interviewed in 1998 (MDICP1), in 2001 (MDICP2) and 2004 (MDICP3). 6 In 2004 respondents were counseled and tested for HIV. 7 HIV prevalence in the sample is 9.3 percent for women (95%-CI: 7.6-11.3) and 6.4 ... See full document

... Figures of childbearing intensity have to be read together with the delay in the timing of fertility that we have been observing since the 1955 birth cohort (Figure 7). In the female cohorts born in the late ... See full document

... I use multinomial logistic regression to model match status: unmatched-terminated, matched-terminated, and matched-continuous. This method permits the inclusion of both continuous and terminated marriages in regression ... See full document

... Table 7 and their translation into overall relative risks for combinations in Table ...table 7 we can see that those with any indication of socioeconomic deprivation have a higher propensity to become ... See full document

... Fawcett et al. (2005) suggest that the radical restructuring of the social welfare system in New Zealand in the 1980s, including the introduction of user charges for health services, contributed to the increasing excess ... 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

... 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

... Women who attend religious services weekly are more likely to use modern contraception than those who do not; however, contrary to our expectations, there is no relationship between ex[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

... The sensitivity of population growth rate to changes in the vital rates can be written in terms of the stable stage or age distribution and the reproductive value distribution.. If the v[r] ... See full document

... upward flow arrangements were dependent on support from the younger generations; those in balanced arrangements were either engaged in even exchanges between the generations or in s[r] ... See full document

... The hourly wage does not exhibit very large variability across different region of Italy, even if there is a clear tendency of lower hourly wage in the South (linked both with the presen[r] ... See full document

... In line with the theoretical predictions, higher education in Norway is found to delay the time to first conception, and this is also partly true for Finland, except for the highest educ[r] ... See full document