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... a 5 th century chieftain called Niall of the Nine Hostages (the specific Y chromosome signature is also significantly more common among men with surnames genealogically linked to the last known relative of this ... See full document

... Table 5 also reports the range (minimum and maximum values) of the country- specific ...Table 5 shows, the range of the weights varies substantially across the country ... See full document

... The multivariate analyses consider some basic characteristics of the respondents and their households primarily for the purposes of control. Four metric variables cover the respon- dent’s age, the number of his or her ... See full document

... Because this paper relies on techniques from matrix calculus, I begin in Section 2. with a brief review of those techniques. Section 3. analyzes density-dependent models, in- troduces methods for analyzing various ... See full document

... Table 4 displays the results from the multivariate analyses of second and higher order births. Unlike with first birth fertility, this table shows that all relative risks before the reference period are significantly ... See full document

... Figure 5 represents one of the cases in which different transitions apply for different age groups. According to the correspondence tables released by the Federal Statistical Office, there should be a 100% ... See full document

... rates of the forerunner country. A partial adjustment model can be used to project the future values of the rate ratios. This can be considered as a quite “objective” method. The choice of the “target” values of the ... 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 paper is structured as follows: In Section 2 we provide background information on birth dynamics in Germany and summarize previous research that examined the link between education and fertility. In Section 3 we ... See full document

... individual, including retrospective reports of jobs held in years prior to the first wave of data collection, up to the latest survey round. The analysis includes measures of whether individuals were currently employed ... See full document

... (1995:202) argue that in those countries where divorce is still rare women with high educational levels have a higher risk of marriage dissolution than women with lower education becau[r] ... See full document

... class 5, the late partnership formation class, indicating that co-residential partnerships are not being abandoned altogether, nor even postponed much into the ... See full document

... WOC respondents, like Edith, often appear to be going along with what the interviewer is saying as a response to a formulation. To say “no” to a formulation, a respondent must do more interactional work, particularly ... 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

... for women who reported only one union and were in that union at the beginning of the calendar period; (3) all unions for women who reported more than one union, who starte[r] ... See full document

... In England & Wales the process of childbearing postponement also has the characteristic that fertility of young women starting with the cohorts of the early 1940s is declining from[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

... this article suggest that “quality of care” issues are still distant in provider-client interactions, and the needs of clients, particularly regarding access (Speizer, Hotchkiss et ... See full document

... In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the delay of childbearing occurred for first but not yet for second births, a continuation of this post- ponement pattern leads to a substantial n[r] ... See full document

... Arthur Roger Thatcher, CB, died in London on February 13, 2010, at 83 years of age. He was actively engaged in demographic research until his death. One of his last papers, The Compression of Deaths above the Mode, is ... See full document