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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 545–563.
Published: 01 November 1992
... alterations in the effect estimates. Nor did it seem warranted to include a measure of the educational activity after a woman first reached the level that was recorded as the highest by age 37. Although such additional schooling affects the employment profile in the same direction as does a higher formal...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 411–425.
Published: 01 August 1971
...James A. Palmore; Paul M. Hirsch; Ariffin bin Marzuki Abstract Using data from a 1966–1967 probability sample of West Malaysian married women 15–44 years of age, this paper analyzes the characteristics of women who were active in diffusing information about family planning. The woman’s age and her...
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 273–286.
Published: 01 August 1970
... inapplicable to domestic servants. These findings add to the considerable evidence showing lower fertility among economically active women in large urban places in Latin America. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1970 1970 Marital Status Labor Force Active Woman Cross...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 47–62.
Published: 01 February 1995
... evidence that stigma plays a role in the process under examination. Even so, we cannot rule out the possibility that stigma associated with a nonmarital birth is important but has vanished by the time a woman enters the remarriage market. Time Available to Women for Social Activities In a further effort...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 307–317.
Published: 01 August 1971
... the home and low rates of economic activity of children depress a society’s fertility level, as measured by the crude birth rate or the child-woman ratio. It is also hypothesized, but not confirmed, that the per cent of unpaid family workers in a society is positively related to its fertility level...
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 February 1978
... National Family Planning Pro- gram. Columns (I) to (8) indicate vari- ous woman-years of experience spent in different states of exposure to the risk of childbearing for the 1964 to 1975 period. One crucial indicator is the number of fecund, sexual1y active woman-years of experience each year (column 4...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 229–247.
Published: 01 May 1991
... definition (Pressat and Wilson 1985), we define sterility as the inability of a noncontraceptingsexually active woman or couple to have a live birth. Hence, to avoid misclassifying fecund women who intentionally have no live births, sterility can be measured only in populations in which there is little...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2271–2293.
Published: 01 December 2022
... motivate her to use hormonal methods ( Kahneman 2011 ; Lawler 2001 ). To the contrary, desire for sex plays a diminishing role on coital use for a woman not using hormonal methods. These findings map onto prior qualitative research on how young women manage their sexual activity in the context of sexual...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 43–58.
Published: 01 February 2001
... of contraceptive users in the network increases a woman s probability of using family planning. This reduction in the critical level is one indica- tor that the relevance of social learning increases in relation to social influence in villages with high market activities. The parameter estimates for (Dnw, M...
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 101–117.
Published: 01 February 1991
... to identify days of the menstrual cycle which they believed were safe from risk of conception. A weekly follow-up form was administered in the subsequent four visits. At each of the five visits, each woman was asked to provide, for the past seven days, a daily record of menstrual and breastfeeding activity...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 593–602.
Published: 01 November 1994
... the causal link between fertility and employment. 2 Useful and comparable data on sexual activity and birth control practices were collected during the 1983, 1984, and 1985 surveys. We considered each of the 6,283 women who began the NLSY in 1979 for inclusion in the sample. If a woman was eligible in 1983...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 895–920.
Published: 01 June 2022
... that religiosity is a significant negative predictor of young unmarried women's subsequent sexual activity. Further, this relationship is partially explained by a woman's family and friend environments, attitudes, and anticipated guilt after sex. Adjusting for anticipated guilt after sex in the last model...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1069–1099.
Published: 22 March 2014
... et al. 2004 ). These definitions situate three theories about the influence of IPV on women’s economic and non-economic activities: spillover, compensation, and patriarchal bargaining. Figure  1 depicts, for each theory, how a woman’s exposure to IPV is expected to influence her engagement...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 579–594.
Published: 01 November 1986
... contact and about current work and educational activities. Questions were then asked about the Proception: An Important Fertility Behavior 583 woman's current marital relationship, which led to a series of questions about her sexual, contraceptive, and proceptive behavior and about the occurrence...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 659–673.
Published: 01 November 2003
... by pregnancy or postpartum infecundability). The analysis was confined to the sexual exposure of single (or never-married) women aged 15 24 during the calendar period. The total number of woman-months spent in each of the four specified states (virgin, sexually active and unprotected by contraception, us- ing...
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 427–439.
Published: 01 November 1971
... of the non-agricultural labor force: Middle Eastern women are absent systematically from occupational and industrial sectors of employment which involve public activity and presuppose contact with males. Labor Force Middle Eastern Woman Worker Middle Eastern Country Occupational Opportunity...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 157–171.
Published: 01 May 1999
...: The duration of maternal work leave is positively related to the duration of breast- feeding. Hypothesis 2: The intensity of a woman's market work is negatively related to the intensity of her breast-feeding activity. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN BREAST-FEEDING AND MARKET WORK Rising female labor force participation...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 1996
... 1996 1996 Premarital Birth Puerto Rican Woman Premarital Pregnancy Premarital Conception York Metropolitan Area References Bean,F.D. and R.R. Berg. 1991. “Cultureand Structural Assimilation and Marital Disruption among Mexican Americans.” Working Paper 13.08, Texas Population Research...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 210–217.
Published: 01 March 1967
... Studies, No. 17, 1953, p. 78). 4 Murray Gendell, “The Influence of Family Building Activity on Woman’s Rate of Economic Activity,” 1965 United Nations World Population Conference (mimeographed). 5 Blake Judith ( 1965 ). Demographic Science and the Redirection of Population Policy...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 267–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
... enterprise (Goetz and Gupta 1996). When credit allows a woman to engage in an indepen- dent economic enterprise, it is not difficult to see how access to credit would enhance financial independence. Yet even when the credit is invested in a joint activity with other house- hold members, women may become more...