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... Following the collapse of state socialism around 1990, young people in CEE adjusted to new conditions. This adjustment resulted in rapidly changing forms of family formation and partnership relationships, and in new ... See full document

... Hamilton (1966) obtained the relationship (16) in an analysis of the evolution of senescence. From (16) and (2) it is apparent that (provided r ≥ 0) the magnitudes of the sensitivities of r to mortality and ... See full document

... dower 5 (or muakhar) is a sum of money promised to the Muslim bride in the event of divorce or the death of the husband, but it is not actually paid unless one of these two events comes to ... See full document

... Statistics Austria, the Austrian national statistical institute, regularly publishes long-run cohort-component population projections by sex, age, and nine NUTS-2 regions, i.e., Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower ... 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

... Fig. 2, using again the Japanese data, we do not observe any particular age or period dependent ...Fig. 2 show the interval of one standard deviation distance from the ... See full document

... Figure 2 also shows trends in adult mortality among females. As expected, female mortality levels are much lower than those of males. As in the case of males, Armenia and Georgia consistently have the lowest ... See full document

... As Figure 4 shows, over time the pattern prevalent in Kidul in 2000 is reinforced: balanced support flows are confirmed as the ideal and the statistical norm which is being achieved more often by 2005. There is a ... See full document

... For males in the 1980s we observe a widening life expectancy gap between the higher and the lower educated (Table 2). Period life expectancy at age 35 increased by 2.8 years for men with tertiary education, but ... See full document

... Equation (2) is a straightforward expression for decomposing variation in life ex- pectancy into various causes of death. It shows clearly that the contribution of each cause of death to the change in life ... 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

... It is not common for young people in Slovenia to live on their own (in a single-person household) during the time interval between living with parents and living with a partner. The possibility to move into one’s own ... 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

... Fertility has declined dramatically in China ever since the implementation of the one- child policy in the late 1970s. Technically, the policy is not really a ‘one-child’ policy. The Chinese government recognised that ... See full document

... The most marked change can be observed in birth control. Currently, most men and women use effective contraceptive methods at the start of their sexual life and the first pregnancy therefore mostly involves a carefully ... 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

... Since the onset of the economic crisis there has been a notable decline in immigration flows and in the union formation and fertility of both Spaniards and immigrants (Castro-Martín et al. 2015). Emigration has ... See full document

... The greater number of statistically valid analyses on Italian national samples refer to connections between church attendance on Sundays and age at first intercourse (Ongaro, 2001; Cazzola, 1999; Castiglioni, 2004). Some ... See full document

... the 19 th and early 20 th centuries was coitus interruptus – withdrawal (Santow ...to 14 – 26 pregnancies when traditional methods are used 2 (United Nations ... See full document

... To be fair, Bongaarts and Feeney, except at a few points, are not talking about co- horts. Instead, they intend e ∗ 0 as a period measure that tries to improve upon period life expectancy. What such an improved period ... See full document