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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 876–893.
Published: 01 June 1967
... because the population’s average participation rate does not vary only with changes in its age distribution, but with changes in the social norms which regulate working habits. In this paper, adult-equivalence scales derived from family budget studies were used to make dependents of various ages...
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Published: 02 December 2011
Fig. 8 Rank correlation between asset index using all indicators and household expenditures per adjusted household size, with various scaling factors used for adjustment and adult equivalence values. Adult equivalence is parameter α and scaling factor is parameter θ in the following adjustment
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Published: 14 May 2018
Fig. 4 Seasonality by mean consumption. m ̂ h characterizes average household consumption per adult equivalent during 1991–1994; s ̂ h characterizes the seasonality of household consumption per adult equivalent during 1991–1994. The dots indicate household-level
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2004
... family income, regardless of whether they cohabit or marry, whereas men’s needs-adjusted income levels remain unchanged when men make these same transitions. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Married Couple Total Family Income Adult Equivalent Marriage Premium...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 655–671.
Published: 10 February 2017
... that induce delayed effects and is an extension of the discrete form of the standard frailty model with distinct implications. We show that introducing delayed effects is equivalent to perturbing adult mortality patterns with a particular class of time-/age-varying frailty. We emphasize two main results...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1703–1728.
Published: 03 September 2015
... measurement assumptions of vignette equivalence and response consistency. This article tests these assumptions in some of the most widely fielded anchoring vignettes in the world: the health vignettes in the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) and World Health Survey...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1091–1118.
Published: 14 May 2018
...Fig. 4 Seasonality by mean consumption. m ̂ h characterizes average household consumption per adult equivalent during 1991–1994; s ̂ h characterizes the seasonality of household consumption per adult equivalent during 1991–1994. The dots indicate household-level...
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Published: 14 May 2018
are clustered at the level of the 1991–1994 village. The dashed line is at –0.016, the value of the estimated seasonality coefficient from the main results in column 2 of Table 2 . Tropical livestock units is an index of livestock holdings, scaled so that 1 unit is equivalent to 1 cow. Adult equivalent units
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Published: 14 May 2018
. Adult equivalent units are the sum of household members where members have the following weights: ages 0 to 5 years: weight = 0.5; ages 5 to 14 or age 50+: weight = 0.7; ages 15 to 50: weight = 1. The asset index is a measure of wealth constructed with the first principal component of a vector
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 359–392.
Published: 02 December 2011
...Fig. 8 Rank correlation between asset index using all indicators and household expenditures per adjusted household size, with various scaling factors used for adjustment and adult equivalence values. Adult equivalence is parameter α and scaling factor is parameter θ in the following adjustment...
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Income inequality and self-rated health status: Evidence from the european community household panel
Demography (2009) 46 (4): 805–825.
Published: 01 November 2009
... into a single-adult equivalent household income by applying the conventional modi ed-OECD equivalence scale (see, e.g., the recommendations in Atkinson et al. 2002:99). Hereafter, we refer to respondents single-adult equivalent household income as their household income. We used these household income data...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1119–1145.
Published: 08 May 2017
..., Frequency and Characteristics of Female-Headed Households in Africa). Differences in demographic composition and in the consumption needs of adults and children can be accounted for by using adult equivalent scale-adjusted poverty measures. However, this approach implies knowing the consumption needs...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 213–227.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Ian M. Timæus Abstract This paper extends earlier research into methods for estimating adult mortality from information on the recent incidence of orphanhood. It presents a series of regression coefficients for estimating female and male mortality from synthetic cohort data on the subsequent...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 August 1995
... true among households containing children under 18, where the head of household is nearly always a working-age adult. Because the United States provides few and very parsimonious government transfers to working-age adults, American children depend largely on the wages earned by their parents to enjoy...
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An assessment of methods for estimating adult mortality from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
Demography (1986) 23 (3): 435–450.
Published: 01 August 1986
.... With survey data it is more convenient to work with the rate of increase in the proportion of the population with living mothers than with its equivalent, the difference in the rates of increase of the non-orphaned and the Estimating Adult Mortality from Data on Maternal Orphanhood 441 total populations. Thus...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1423–1443.
Published: 01 August 2021
... vignette equivalence and response consistency in several widely used vignettes: the health vignettes that are implemented in the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) and World Health Survey, as well as similar vignettes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
... ne deaths and survivors in Eq. (8). We rst x the number of survivors to be the number of male respondents, nm, plus the number of female respondents nf, weighted to represent an equivalent sample of males. To Estimating Adult Mortality Without Selection Bias 581 Figure 3. Quadratic Models Fit...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 February 1989
.... The test results favor the Becker formulation. One important hypothesis in Easterlin's seminal work on fertility is that tastes are endogenous, with the income to which one is exposed as an adolescent affecting one's adult tastes for children. 1 Easterlin suggested that because of this effect, a couple's...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 371–399.
Published: 17 February 2011
... by adults and elderly who live alone. An equivalence scale, then, could be written as (21) where γ i is a parameter that represents the relative consumption of children, with respect to adults, within households. γ i = 0 means that only adults are considered responsible for the consumption of good...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 01 December 2021
... for ancestral Swedes. Many adult immigrants appear to exhibit a later age at first birth than the average of 25.9 for ancestral Swedes, with values ranging from 23.9 for those from the former Yugoslavia, to 29.8 for those from East Asia; for child migrants, the equivalent range is from 23.1 for those from...
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