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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 429–449.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of the contribution of variables to compositional effects for each variable and an overall rate effect. This study demonstrates that the resolution of differences is attainable at the categorical level for both compositional effects and rate effects. Refinements to Das Gupta’s equations yield a complete decomposition...
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 711–716.
Published: 01 November 1989
... variable. The purged rates from this new method are invariant to changes in the marginal distribution of composition, but those from the earlier purging method are not. Mathematical relationships between the proposed method and other techniques are also explored. 13 1 2011 © Population...
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 239–241.
Published: 01 May 1977
... formulation are discussed. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 Compositional Variable Mathematical Relationship Saturated Model Ordinary Regression Multiplicative Model References Duncan , O. D. ( 1968 ). Inheritance of Poverty or Inheritance of Race...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 433–447.
Published: 01 November 1983
... effects of time is consistent with alternative explanations of structural changes in propensity to live alone. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1983 1983 Ordinary Little Square Compositional Variable Living Arrangement Current Population Survey Related Child...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 195–209.
Published: 01 May 1970
..., husband present women who are under the age of sixty. The methods of analysis used include the comparison of employment rates among subpopulations and a dummy variable regression technique. Aspects of family composition studied include age of the youngest child (in single years in order to determine...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1507–1545.
Published: 15 June 2018
... on the effect of the respective neighborhood composition variable during childhood and its interaction with year of observation during adulthood to determine whether neighborhood environments are stable up to 18 years after leaving the parental home (1990 to 2008). The models include the same controls as those...
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 523–539.
Published: 01 November 1978
..., and illustrative applications to data are provided. INTRODUCTION In demographic research the following situation often arises. The rate of occur- rence of an attribute varies across groups but also depends on a certain composi- tional variable. It is well known that when the group compositions are different from...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 315–332.
Published: 01 August 1993
... pattern of daughter preference. GENDER PREFERENCE AND THE PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY If the gender composition of surviving children (GCSC) affects decisions regarding subsequent fertility, it does so through one or more "proximate determinants" or "intermediate fertility variables...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 109–128.
Published: 01 February 1984
... expressions for the sensitivity of demographic variables to changes in input functions or schedules. It uses this "linkage method" to obtain closed-form expres- sions for the response of the intrinsic growth rate, birth rate, and age composition of a stable population to arbitrary marginal changes in its age...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 273–282.
Published: 01 March 1967
...A. J. Jaffe Summary The process whereby the age composition of an industry is formed appears to be largely a function of past rates of growth in employment; the social (or institutional) framework sets limits and affects the ensuing age composition but relatively little. The following types...
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 321–336.
Published: 01 August 1978
... technique for deriv- ing a composite measure or set of mea- sures of land availability from these interrelated variables (see Rummel, 1967). The principal components method makes it possible to identify underlying patterns of relationship in a large number of vari- ables and then to express them in the form...
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 93–120.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Ansley J. Coale Abstract A fundamental theorem of mathematical demography states that two closed populations sharing the same extended history of net fertility, no matter how variable, have the same age composition. In consequence, when in any population net fertility has long followed a purely...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
..., this article is the first to measure how much of the life expectancy gap remains after differences in mortality are purged of the compositional differences in socioeconomic characteristics between blacks and whites. The decomposition is facilitated by a reweighting technique that creates counterfactual...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 287–307.
Published: 01 August 1981
... birth intervals. 289 The family composition variables mea- sure the number of children alive in each age-sex group. This information is not quite the same as parity, the measure most often used by demographers in such analyses. However, age-sex composition variables more directly relate to child care...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 507–528.
Published: 01 August 2002
... Inequality Variable Whites Blacks Network Composition Variables Proportion of network members who are the same race as the respondent 0.875 0.922 (683) (852) Proportion who live in the same neighborhood 0.316 0.362 (683) (852) Job-Search Variables Used contact to find work 0.478 0.508 (883) (1,101) Contact...
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 457–472.
Published: 01 August 1974
... predicting the crude birth rate. In the total sample, the path coefficients indicate that illegitimacy, the legitimate fertility rate and the proportion married all make strong contributions to explain- ing variations in the crude birth rate, while the two age composition variables have a moderate importance...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 395–414.
Published: 01 August 1985
... points in the share of the labor force claimed by females, and a highly variable age-by-age pattern of the increase in the percent female. DATA, COMPOSITION CATEGORIES, AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT MEASURES The data used for rate adjustment were obtained from the civilian person records ofthe March Current...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 99–113.
Published: 01 February 1988
... of the social, demographie, and eco- nomic variables used to describe them. One implication of this has been overlooked in the literature, namely, that aggregate rates may have an implicit dynamic of change. Differential internal rates modifythe composition of the aggregate, changing the relative importance...
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 213–222.
Published: 01 May 1978
... variables in the analysis are measures of industry composition, population size, and regional location, factors which past research has shown to be indicators of rank in an urban hierarchy of dominance. The data generally support the hypothesis in revealing that headquarters locate in large, diversified...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
Published: 01 March 1967
... insufficient to deal with demographic data, and abrupt changes may occur because of vagaries of individual decisions. The more the demographic trends can be affected by individual decisions, the more the methods of social psychology become useful in understanding changes in population composition...
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