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... from extended family and kin members as well as welfare provision by the state. Influenced by Confucianism that regards family as the pivotal unit of society, Korea has traditionally maintained relatively strong family ... See full document

... Annie formulates Annegret’s answer using the words of response option (07): “sure, so you felt established.” 6 Annegret signals tacit agreement by moving on with no pause to provide a second reason: “a- an- and um (.) my ... See full document

... These two series of research successfully documented the mortality deceleration at old ages in humans and a number of non-human animal species. Given that the Gompertz and Makeham models do not capture this important ... See full document

... To compensate for the fact that research on HIV/AIDS and mental health heavily focuses on HIV-positive individuals but ignores the possibility that the epidemic m[r] ... See full document

... In the case of external causes of death, which were reported in Figure 13, the estimate of the regression coefficient is lower ( β ˆ = 0.333 ), but both ˆv( | ) S Y and ˆv( H Y | ) decrease with the introduction ... See full document

... 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

... 64%. 13 Finally, the 2009 wave of the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) reports a response rate for new households of 73% for 29 participating countries (EUROSTAT 2011, ... See full document

... The information in the various sources is linked on a nominative basis to reconstitute individual neonatal biographies in the first month of life. Nominative reconstitution produces a longitudinal person-day dataset ... See full document

... We also asked about some supplementary characteristics that are not registered by IUSSP, and which may shed some additional light on the character of demographers. First of all, the type of work which most respondents ... See full document

... smoking prevalence to vary across each nation did little to increase the explanatory power of the model and introduced considerable randomness to the predictions. Other estimates that a[r] ... See full document

... (2) How does the degree of integration in the host country shape differences in the return migration intentions of members of the sending country‘s ethnic minori[r] ... See full document

... Issues of quality of care remain central in debates about family planning and provision of reproductive health services (Adeokun 1991; Blaney 1993; Brown et al. 1995; Bruce 1992; Hardon 1997; Katz et al. 1993; Lane 1994; ... See full document

... Checking against the correspondence table ICD8/ICD9 (Table 3), the ICD8 items in question both link with ICD9 403 only, completing an association of type 1:N (see Table 4, Association [r] ... See full document

... The use of TOPALS for making assumptions about fertility implies that one is making assumptions about the levels of age-specific fertility rates and that the value of the TFR is an outcome, whereas in many countries it ... See full document

... The concept of death clustering inherently implies the survival status of preceding children, that is, the survival of a younger child in the family depends on whether an older sibling h[r] ... See full document

... In addition to the TFRs, age-and parity-specific fertility rates (ASFRS and PSFRS) are calculated and plotted by calendar year in order to find out whether the change in fertility [r] ... See full document

... This paper uses matrix calculus to derive the sensitivity and elasticity of equi- libria, cycles, ratios (e.g., dependency ratios), age averages and variances, temporal aver- ages and va[r] ... See full document

... In this article, we examine data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) dealing with the prevalence and characteristics of asexual persons. Our research highlights the measurement and interpretation ... See full document

... To illustrate the second step procedure, consider the 1981–1986 age-specific mortality patterns presented in Figure 5 for male immigrant populations born in China and the United Kingdom [r] ... See full document

... this article, based on data from the 2011 Hong Kong census and the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD), we examine the association between education and union formation for both men and women in Hong ... See full document