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in Biases in Survey Estimates of Neonatal Mortality: Results From a Validation Study in Urban Areas of Guinea-Bissau
> Demography
Published: 10 September 2020
Fig. 1 An example of reporting errors in full birth history data . DOB = date of birth. AAD = age at death. In this example, baby 1 and baby 2 were affected by date displacement. Baby 3 was affected by age overstatement, whereas baby 4 was an omission.
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 185–201.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Ulla Larsen; Jane Menken Abstract In this article, methods are presented for measuring the level and age pattern of sterility from incomplete birth histories, such as those that can be collected in demographic surveys of women who may not yet have reached the end of their reproductive span...
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in Randomness in the Bedroom: There Is No Evidence for Fertility Control in Pre-Industrial England
> Demography
Published: 17 June 2019
Fig. 4 The fertility history of Margaret Ellmers. 0 is a year without a birth, and 1 is a year when a birth is recorded. The red line is the implied CKW hazard rate.
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 485–503.
Published: 01 March 1968
... of the number of births and birth rates for the United States derivedfrom fertility histories reported in a national population survey conducted in 1965. More particularly, this report is concerned with the variation in the quality of fertility statistics derived from the population survey as related...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1387–1395.
Published: 21 December 2012
... in the sense that they can be tabulated by categories or selected values of one socioeconomic variable while controlling for other socioeconomic variables. The methodology is applied to birth history data, in the form of actual birth histories from a fertility survey or reconstructed birth histories derived...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 481–486.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Herbert L. Smith Abstract Coale and Banister argue that in China, elevated sex ratios in retrospective surveys are in part a function of collecting birth histories in a culture in which the definition of a birth may exclude mortality shortly after birth: an infant death in the West may...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 647–673.
Published: 01 November 2005
... these partnership transitions jointly with fertility, allowing for correlation between the unobserved woman-level characteristics that affect each process. The analysis is based on the partnership and birth histories that were collected for the 1958 birth cohort (National Child Development Study) aged 16–42...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 267–296.
Published: 22 January 2020
...Ian M. Timæus; Tom A. Moultrie Abstract This study applies survival analysis to the birth histories from 317 national surveys to model pathways to low fertility in 83 less-developed countries between 1965 and 2014. It presents period measures of parity progression, the length of birth intervals...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 485–508.
Published: 08 January 2014
... survey-based union and birth histories in Australia and the United States and data from national population registers in Norway and Sweden to estimate the likelihood of experiencing childbearing across partnerships at any point in the childbearing career. We find that births with new partners constitute...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 287–299.
Published: 01 May 1989
...David M. Blau; Philip K. Robins Abstract A sample of labor-market and birth histories is used to estimate the effects of child-care costs on employment and fertility decisions. A reduced-form empirical analysis is performed, which is based on hazard functions for transitions among various fertility...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 901–925.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Jeanne Cilliers; Martine Mariotti Abstract We revisit the discussion on family limitation through stopping and spacing behavior before and during the fertility transition with a sample of 12,800 settler women's birth histories in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Using cure models...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1705–1726.
Published: 10 September 2020
...Fig. 1 An example of reporting errors in full birth history data . DOB = date of birth. AAD = age at death. In this example, baby 1 and baby 2 were affected by date displacement. Baby 3 was affected by age overstatement, whereas baby 4 was an omission. ...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 451–468.
Published: 01 August 2009
... on families of different income or education levels. I reconstructed the birth histories of women in the past two Israeli censuses of 1983 and 1995 to study socioeconomic differences in the effect of family allowances up to the seventh parity. The results indicate that family allowances have a significant...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 459–475.
Published: 01 August 1993
... mortality. We analyze birth history data from 37 national surveys in developing countries to assess the quality of neonatal mortality data and to estimate levels and trends in mortality occurring at 4–14 days. It is shown that mortality at 4-14 days has declined considerably during the last decade in most...
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Demography (1980) 17 (3): 261–273.
Published: 01 August 1980
...Sergio DellaPergola Abstract The 1971 National Jewish Population Survey provides cross-sectional data on achieved fertility, detailed birth histories, and other information on family formation for a countrywide representative sample of 5,303 ever-married women. Cohort analysis shows that—although...
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in Multidimensional Life Table Estimation of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components
> Demography
Published: 21 December 2012
Fig. 4 Comparison of mean closed birth intervals by child’s birth order (CBI) derived alternatively by the birth history, P it , and P ait methods: Philippines 2003 DHS, whole country
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in Multidimensional Life Table Estimation of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components
> Demography
Published: 21 December 2012
Fig. 1 Comparison of parity progression ratios (PPRs) derived alternatively by the birth history, P it , and P ait methods: Philippines 2003 DHS, whole country. In Figs. 1, 2 , 3 , and 4 , in the case of cohort estimates, the open-ended parity transition is 13+ to 14+ for the P
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in Multidimensional Life Table Estimation of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components
> Demography
Published: 21 December 2012
Fig. 3 Comparison of mean age at first marriage and mean ages at childbirth by child’s birth order derived alternatively by the birth history and P ait methods: Philippines 2003 DHS, whole country
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in Multidimensional Life Table Estimation of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components
> Demography
Published: 21 December 2012
Fig. 2 Comparison of age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) derived alternatively by the birth history and P ait methods: Philippines 2003 DHS, whole country
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1463–1485.
Published: 18 September 2015
... of those who cohabit, carefully accounting for trajectories of cohabitation and marriage around the couple’s first birth. Multivariate event history models provide evidence of a weakening association between cohabitation and instability given that marriage occurs at some point before or after the couple’s...
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