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Communication and diffusion of the IUCD: a case study in Urban India
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 601–614.
Published: 01 June 1967
... planning innovation. The study indicates the utility of this framework from an analytical point of view both for the researcher to the process by which family planning comes to be adopted, and for the administrator to understand the working of the communications elements of his program. The data indicate...
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Birth control and the black American: A matter of genocide?
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 571–590.
Published: 01 November 1973
...Robert G. Weisbord Abstract During the 1960’s and continuing into the 1970’s, the charge that birth control and abortion are integral elements of a white genocidal conspiracy directed against Afro-Americans has been heard with increasing frequency and stridency in black communities. The genocide...
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The mobility experience and neighborhood attachment
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 225–237.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Marc Bolan Abstract In this study, I consider variables associated with an individual’s most recent move into his or her current residence as predictors of neighborhood attachment. Using the 1978–1979 Seattle Community Attachment Survey, I find that elements of the mobility experience...
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Culture and Demography: From Reluctant Bedfellows to Committed Partners
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 3–25.
Published: 12 December 2013
... meanings in the brains of individuals (Strauss and Quinn 1997 ). The basic element of a network model of culture is a schema, a concept from cognitive science. A schema is a relatively stable and abstract representation of the meaning of an object or event (Mandler 1984 ; Strauss and Quinn 1997...
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Integrating Theory and Research on the Institutional Determinants of Fertility
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 171–184.
Published: 01 May 1989
... or socioeconomic status (Mason, 1984:20, 77). Although theory relating institutional factors to fertility is far from seamless, there is substantial support for the proposition that the key elements impinging on fertility inhere 174 Demography, Vol. 26, No.2, May 1989 at the systemic, institutional, aggregate...
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Estimation of period-specific gross migration flows from limited data: Bi-proportional adjustment approach
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 133–142.
Published: 01 February 1985
... or its variant (Leontief, 1941; Stone, 1962; and Willekens, 1981). It is formulated that the missing elements of a flow matrix are the expressions of our incomplete knowledge of the system structure. The structure can be captured by describing the data in a model, the parameters of which denote...
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Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the Health Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 159–175.
Published: 01 February 1994
...; Schoen and Woodrow 1980): lex+ n) = I(x) . P(x,n). (4) The survivorship matrix I(x + n), whose elements are lj}x + n), denotes the number of persons in state i at exact age x who are in state j at exact age x + n. The survivorship matrix lex) is similar to I(x + n) but its elements, lij(X), represent...
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International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 677–698.
Published: 09 March 2012
... under serious criticism among scholars in recent decades (Mandelbaum 1971 ; Nisbet 1969/ 1975 , 1980 ; Szreter 1993 ; Tilly 1978 , 1984 ), these ideas remain persuasive among many elements of the scholarly and public policy communities, as well as in the general public. Scholars observed...
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Patterns of residential segregation within a metropolitan ghetto
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 185–193.
Published: 01 May 1970
... as the family passes through its life cycle. These principles are applicable to the Inner Core as weIl as to the White Community. Of particular interest was the function of the Changing Area as a place of resi- dence for elements of the nonwhite popu- lation. It appears that the Changing Area serves...
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The DYNAMO-HIA Model: An Efficient Implementation of a Risk Factor/Chronic Disease Markov Model for Use in Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1259–1283.
Published: 10 October 2012
... from not having disease i to having disease i is called the (nonfatal) incidence rate of i and is described by Eq. ( 1 ): (1) , where r is a risk factor state; C is a vector of states of the causal diseases—that is, diseases that are a cause of another disease—with elements { c 1...
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Family organization and fertility limitation in Nepal
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 503–521.
Published: 01 November 1992
... , 27 , 369 – 96 . 10.2307/2061374 Holmberg David H. ( 1989 ). Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal’s Tamang . Ithaca : Cornell University Press . Kmenta Jan ( 1986 ). Elements of Econometrics . 2nd Ed. New York : Macmillan . Knodel John...
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Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: Report from a technical working group
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 417–441.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Design Surveys differ in a number of important design features. These features and any changes in these features over time may affect estimates of trends. Here, we consider six key elements: the type and coverage of the sample frame (and whether the institutionalized population is included), who...
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The developmental paradigm, reading history sideways, and family change
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 449–465.
Published: 01 November 2001
.... In the past sev- eral decades almost all these conclusions have been chal- lenged. Most elements of the great family transition have been declared myths, and the explanations of fertility decline have been challenged. Third, I show that the developmental paradigm, reading history sideways, and the conclusions...
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Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1683–1711.
Published: 01 October 2022
... community measures of out-migration ( Curran et al. 2005 ; Davis et al. 2002 ; Garip 2008 ; Palloni et al. 2001 ). These elements may lead to substantial measurement error of network social capital as conceptualized in the broader social capital literature. They may also produce biased estimates...
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Age patterns of women at marriage, cohabitation, and first birth in India
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 509–523.
Published: 01 November 1986
... residence do not contribute very much to the explanation of those patterns within two local communities. In conclusion, then, we hope that this paper stimulates other researchers to carry our investigation further. Changes in cohabitation and first-birth timing will undoubt- edly become an important element...
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Moroccan family planning program—Progress and problems
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 627–631.
Published: 01 June 1968
... the, government was making a stronger effort to rationally plan the economy through the development of a stronger central planning authority. At least three elements appear to have significance in highlighting the population problem. The first was the influence of the Tunisian Family Planning Program which h...
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The living arrangements of unmarried elderly hispanic females
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 February 1992
... for national origin in testing models of Hispanic living arrangements. Below we discuss a"rhree-factor framework for ethnic living arrangements, showing how the elements from previous attempts at modeling elderly people's living arrangements intersect with a perspective incorporating preferences based...
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Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 75–102.
Published: 04 January 2019
... conditional logit analyses are consistent with our prediction that expected wages at locations are important elements in this process. High expected wages in a location attract people, as theories of migration predict. However, we found that it is only people with high aspirations who are drawn to relocate...
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Progress and problems of family planning in Brazil
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 800–810.
Published: 01 June 1968
... knowledge of the validity of such changes which re- sulted from modifications in a given so- ciety. THE ROLE PLAYED BY BEMFAM IN BRAZIL Within the context analyzed, the So- ciety of Family Welfare in Brazil was .es- tablished aware of these elements, which were an integral part of reality, and which...
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Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence From the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
... on the fundamental elements of immigrants’ economic assimilation. Assimilation theory and other empirical studies have suggested that acquisition of language fluency accounts for immigrants’ faster wage growth compared with native-born workers. 5 Indeed, Borjas ( 2015 ) used data from the 1970–2010...
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