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... fact have a long-term relationship with the father of the child(ren). The information included in the FFS about the status of couples at the time of the birth of children is very useful in distinguishing between ... See full document

... A second economic consideration related to kin marriage is the reduced matrimonial expenditures involved in such unions (Caldwell, Reddy, and Caldwell 1983; Casterline and El-Zeini 2003; Hoodfar 1997; Reilly 2013; ... 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

... China’s SRB has been increasing steadily as the total fertility rate (TFR, or the average number of children borne to a woman) has declined from over 6 in the 1950s to close to 2 in the 1990s (figure 2). The ... See full document

... The period of the ban on abortion (1936–1954) did not bring any tangible dividends in the sense of growth in fertility: the trend in the cohort fertility rate did not even react to this situation, and the growth in the ... 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

... around 90-95% of men and women entered into marriage at least once in a lifetime and the mean age at first marriage was 26 years for men and 23 years for women by the late 1970s. Most men and women entered into marriage ... 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

... Fig. 6 shows an example of changes in person-years lived in an age interval between two consecutive periods. Using the data from the Human Mortality Database, we chose Japanese females for demonstration. As life ... See full document

... The employment rate for Icelandic men and women of childbearing age is, and has been, very high in an international comparison. According to a Statistics Iceland Labour Market Survey, around 90% in the age group 25–54 ... See full document

... I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help distinguish quantum and tempo effects, but argue that in the case of mortality the Bongaarts-Feeney measure of tempo-adjusted life expe[r] ... See full document

... The assumption of convergence also appears in demography. The model of demographic transition, widely used as a point of reference, even with such versions as the ”second demographic transition” (Van de Kaa 1987), ... 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

... models. 6 Keeping matched- continuous marriages in the analysis allows for the full range of covariation among marriage, individual, survey, and interviewer ... See full document

... In Section 2, we give formal definitions of the tail of longevity and of the relative tail of longevity. Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to proving that redundancy decreases the relative tail of longevity. As mentioned, ... See full document

... The total number of observations that we used to construct the regional variables is 15170, but differs considerably between regions, ranging from 6 to 1162, with a mean of 205 respondents aged 55 and older per ... 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

... 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

... In this paper we propose the use of the inhomogeneous K -function (Baddeley, Møller, and Waagepetersen 2000) to study spatial attraction in the household locations of some groups of fore[r] ... See full document

... The policymakers’ awareness of the importance of policies supporting families, especially those with children, is relatively recent and dates back to the second half of the 1[r] ... See full document