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... Vital Statistics and Census data and age-period-cohort models to examine whether cohort fertility patterns are associated with breast cancer mortality rates among wo[r] ... See full document

... As some of the respondents filled in the time-use diary on a day when they were not working, the work schedule is identified from the GSS question “Which of the following best describes your usual work schedule at your ... See full document

... An alternate strategy for legitimating an out-of-wedlock pregnancy or birth, which began appearing in the 1990s, was to present the baby as a vehicle for personal or familial salvation. Thus, a full-size picture of ... See full document

... interviewees made them appear older than they were, the American interviewers probably encountered language barriers, and they also had difficulty interpreting birth dates based on the calendar in use during the Meira ... See full document

... logistic regression equations separately for males and females where the dependent variable was sexual attraction (asexual = 1). He found asexuals to be slightly older than sexuals (see also, Prause and Graham 2007), and ... See full document

... Empirical assessment of theory, therefore, relates not to whether a theoretical model is empirically true or false – strictly speaking all theories and models are false because they are [r] ... See full document

... 9. “t" refers to future calendar years here, but it may also refer to calendar years in the past. We may estimate the general rates of marriage/union formation and dissolution in the past by combining the same ... See full document

... The above analyses assume that the shape of the underlying hazard curve of marriage is the same across educational groups, meaning that the effect of education is assumed to be constant over a lifespan. Many previous ... See full document

... Annie’s yes–no question, formatted in terms of response option (06) Wanted a child as soon as possible after marriage, again breaches rules for interviewer behavior. 9 When this is rejected, Annie puts up an ... See full document

... When the ratio between ˆv( | ) S Y and ˆv( H Y | ) is less than one, the BYMs are mainly influenced by the heterogeneity factor, and any evaluation of the geographical structure cannot avoid considering the decomposition ... See full document

... It is interesting to compare the results obtained using TOPALS with those obtained using other relational and parametric models. First, we compare the results of TOPALS with those of the three most frequently applied ... See full document

... hypothesis” as an explanation for fertility decline (Macura et al., 2000), and they attributed central importance to lower economic performance, growing inequalities, the [r] ... See full document

... cited article published in 1980, James Fries argued that in England, there had been no detectable change in the number of people living longer than 100 years, or in the maximum age of persons dying in a given ... 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

... 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

... 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

... Of particular importance for our analysis is the effect of education: Both the woman’s and the partner’s educational attainments had an independent and a positive effect on the probab[r] ... See full document