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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1131–1159.
Published: 28 May 2019
... or child/adult mortality and mortality at other ages in the observed mortality schedules of the Human Mortality Database. Cross-validation is used to validate the model, and the predictive performance of the model is compared with that of the log-quadratic (Log-Quad) model, which is designed to do the same...
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View articletitled, A General Age-Specific <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Model With an Example Indexed by Child <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> or Both Child and <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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for article titled, A General Age-Specific <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Model With an Example Indexed by Child <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> or Both Child and <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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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
...Ian Timæus Abstract Survey and census data about the survival of respondents’ mothers have been used widely for the estimation of adult mortality. Four methods are described that combine two sets of orphanhood data and yield estimates for the intersurvey period. They are applied to enquiries...
View articletitled, An assessment of methods for estimating <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
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for article titled, An assessment of methods for estimating <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 273–285.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., and behavioral correlates with overall and cause-specific mortality. Religious attendance is associated with U.S. adult mortality in a graded fashion: People who never attend exhibit 1.87 times the risk of death in the follow-up period compared with people who attend more than once a week. This translates...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
... educational differences in mortality rates. With log-rates modeling, we systematically analyze the variability in educational differences in mortality by race and sex across the adult life cycle. The relative differences in mortality rates between educational levels decline with age at the same pace for all...
View articletitled, Educational Inequality in <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Mika Ueyama; Futoshi Yamauchi Abstract This article examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in the marriage...
View articletitled, Marriage behavior response to prime-age <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span>: evidence from malawi
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Emmanuela Gakidou; Gary King Abstract The widely used methods for estimating adult mortality rates from sample survey responses about the survival of siblings, parents, spouses, and others depend crucially on an assumption that, as we demonstrate, does not hold in real data. We show that when...
View articletitled, Death by survey: Estimating <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> without selection bias from sibling survival data
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1855–1885.
Published: 19 September 2018
...Joseph T. Lariscy; Robert A. Hummer; Richard G. Rogers Abstract This study illuminates the association between cigarette smoking and adult mortality in the contemporary United States. Recent studies have estimated smoking-attributable mortality using indirect approaches or with sample data...
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View articletitled, Cigarette Smoking and All-Cause and Cause-Specific <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States
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for article titled, Cigarette Smoking and All-Cause and Cause-Specific <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 953–977.
Published: 05 May 2020
... in adult mortality for men and women in southern Sweden over a 200-year period, using unique individual-level register data. We find a systematic class gradient in adult mortality emerging at ages 30–59 only after 1950 for women and after 1970 for men, and in subsequent periods also observable for ages 60...
View articletitled, When Did the Health Gradient Emerge? Social Class and <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Southern Sweden, 1813–2015
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for article titled, When Did the Health Gradient Emerge? Social Class and <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Southern Sweden, 1813–2015
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 1–14.
Published: 31 December 2014
...Joseph T. Lariscy; Robert A. Hummer; Mark D. Hayward Abstract Hispanics make up a rapidly growing proportion of the U.S. older adult population, so a firm grasp of their mortality patterns is paramount for identifying racial/ethnic differences in life chances in the population as a whole...
View articletitled, Hispanic Older <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the Hispanic Paradox
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for article titled, Hispanic Older <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the Hispanic Paradox
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
...Stéphane Helleringer; Gilles Pison; Almamy M. Kanté; Géraldine Duthé; Armelle Andro Abstract Estimates of adult mortality in countries with limited vital registration (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa) are often derived from information about the survival of a respondent’s siblings. We evaluated...
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View articletitled, Reporting Errors in Siblings’ Survival Histories and Their Impact on <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal
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for article titled, Reporting Errors in Siblings’ Survival Histories and Their Impact on <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal
Includes: Supplementary data
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2047–2073.
Published: 18 November 2014
...Ryan K. Masters; Robert A. Hummer; Daniel A. Powers; Audrey Beck; Shih-Fan Lin; Brian Karl Finch Abstract Black–white differences in U.S. adult mortality have narrowed over the past five decades, but whether this narrowing unfolded on a period or cohort basis is unclear. The distinction has...
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View articletitled, Long-Term Trends in <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-Based Changes
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for article titled, Long-Term Trends in <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-Based Changes
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2005
...John Bongaarts Abstract In the study reported here, I had two objectives: (1) to test a new version of the logistic model for the pattern of change over time in age-specific adult mortality rates and (2) to develop a new method for projecting future trends in adult mortality. A test of the goodness...
View articletitled, Long-range trends in <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span>: Models and projection methods
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 385–415.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Alberto Palloni; Elizabeth Arias Abstract We tested three competing hypotheses regarding the adult “Hispanic mortality paradox”: data artifact, migration, and cultural or social buffering effects. On the basis of a series of parametric hazard models estimated on nine years of mortality follow-up...
View articletitled, Paradox lost: Explaining the hispanic <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> advantage
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for article titled, Paradox lost: Explaining the hispanic <span class="search-highlight">adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> advantage
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Ian M. Timæus; Momodou Jasseh Abstract This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the countries’ Demographic and Health Surveys. Adult mortality has risen sharply since...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from demographic and health surveys
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 315–336.
Published: 13 January 2012
...Jennifer Karas Montez; Robert A. Hummer; Mark D. Hayward Abstract A vast literature has documented the inverse association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality risk but given little attention to identifying the optimal functional form of the association. A theoretical explanation...
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View articletitled, Educational Attainment and <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States: A Systematic Analysis of Functional Form
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 207–228.
Published: 02 October 2012
...Bruno Masquelier Abstract Because of incomplete registration of deaths in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, data on the survival of close relatives constitute the cornerstone of estimates of adult mortality. Since 1990, sibling histories have been widely collected in Demographic and Health...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> From Sibling Survival Data: A Reappraisal of Selection Biases
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1503–1528.
Published: 24 July 2017
... , C. , . . . Scutelniciuc , O. ( 2010 ). Counting hard-to-count populations: The Network scale-up method for public health . Sexually Transmitted Infections , 86 ( Suppl. 2 ), ii11 – ii15 . Bradshaw , D. , & Timaeus , I. M. ( 2006 ). Levels and trends of adult mortality...
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View articletitled, The Network Survival Method for Estimating <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Rwanda
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for article titled, The Network Survival Method for Estimating <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Rwanda
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2169–2198.
Published: 15 September 2020
...Kieron J. Barclay; Robyn Donrovich Thorén; Heidi A. Hanson; Ken R. Smith Abstract Although the associations among marital status, fertility, bereavement, and adult mortality have been widely studied, much less is known about these associations in polygamous households, which remain prevalent across...
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View articletitled, The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database
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for article titled, The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 621–644.
Published: 03 January 2019
...Jennifer Karas Montez; Anna Zajacova; Mark D. Hayward; Steven H. Woolf; Derek Chapman; Jason Beckfield Abstract Adult mortality varies greatly by educational attainment. Explanations have focused on actions and choices made by individuals, neglecting contextual factors such as economic and policy...
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View articletitled, Educational Disparities in <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?
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for article titled, Educational Disparities in <span class="search-highlight">Adult</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?
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in Uncrossing the U.S. Black-White Mortality Crossover: The Role of Cohort Forces in Life Course Mortality Risk
> Demography
Published: 23 June 2012
Fig. 2 Logged single-year age-specific adult mortality risks and logged five-year age-specific mortality rates of U.S. black and white males and females, NHIS-LMF 1986–2006
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