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The study of urbanization
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 937–941.
Published: 01 June 1967
... to a concise definition of urbanization. Most contributors view urbanization as a process of aggregation, but this is no more than a rough indicator of the fundamental processes at work, and each discipline explores only the matter confined to its assigned segment of the process. Thus, for example, the city...
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Practical and mathematical considerations in the formulation and selection of migration rates
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 429–443.
Published: 01 March 1965
... of the particular terms being used. On the other hand when a demographer uses a relative num- ber defined some special way and/or for special purposes, concise definitions and rationale are in order. Under some circum- stances and for some purposes, only a crude rate or ratio is sufficient; but in other...
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General theory of population: Alfred Sauvy, translated by Christophe Campos New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969, x, 551 pp. Hard bound, $12.50.
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 483–493.
Published: 01 August 1973
... of When one asks what the mechanisms her colonies cost France far more people are by which population affects the de- than her low birth rate cost her. pendent variable, one tends to be given either nothing at all (the model is de- ductive-true by definition) or armchair speculation about motivation...
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A survey of population textbooks
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 685–696.
Published: 01 November 1973
... demographic composition of the United States, Stockwell fails to discuss or illustrate population pyramids. Yet his treatment of dependency and aging is concise. He also has a fairly complete section on marital status-something lacking in other texts. The social com- position of the population is also ade...
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On the efficiency of the estimates of life table functions
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 421–426.
Published: 01 August 1973
..., then the efficiency of the estimate of eo can be maximized by decomposing P into the respective age groups in a manner that will minimize the variance of eo. The choice of eo over all other life table functions is based on the consideration that the expectation of life at birth is the most concise summary...
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Population size, military power, and Antinatal policy
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 517–524.
Published: 01 November 1973
..., A. F. K. Organski and Alfred Sauvy. Davis (1958, p. 199) provides this concise statement of his views: The reasons why populationsize is a major determinant of national power seem clear. First, the magnitude of the total popula- tion is the principal factor in the size of the labor force...
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The progress of demography as a scientific discipline
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 485–492.
Published: 01 November 1979
... be regarded as the core of demography as a science. Pro- ceeding from these premises, demography is evaluated as embodying "all the essen- tial elements of scientific outlook and method" (Hauser and Duncan, 1959, p, 21). A definition of the scope and content of demography is certainly crucial to a proper...
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A Quiescent Phase in Human Mortality? Exploring the Ages of Least Vulnerability
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
... of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 278 , 801 – 809 . 10.1098/rspb.2010.2190 . Livi-Bacci , M. ( 2012 ). A concise history of world population ( 5th ed.). West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons . Loudon , I. ( 1992 ). Death in childbirth: An international study...
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Three to five main challenges to demographic research
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 415–432.
Published: 01 November 1983
... Nations . Trends and Characteristics of International Migration Since 1950 . ( 1979 ). New York : United Nations . World Population Trends and Policies: 1977 . ( 1979 ). New York : United Nations . Concise Report on The World Population Situation in 1977: New Beginnings and Uncertain Ends...
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The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2209–2225.
Published: 01 August 2013
... rate (percentage of adults, aged 15 and older, who are proximate illiterates) and the isolated illiteracy rate (percentage of adults, aged 15 and older, who are isolated illiterates). These rates are denoted by P and I , respectively. By definition, the following identity holds: R + P + I = 1...
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Fertility Decline in Prussia: Estimating Influences on Supply, Demand, and Degree of Control
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 347–373.
Published: 01 May 1994
... 1 provides definitions and other details about the various measures we use in this study. Table 2 lists the mean values and standard deviations for the entire period and for each census year. The data set is described elsewhere in greater detail (Galloway 1988; Galloway, Hammel, and Lee 1994...
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How Durable Are Ethnoracial Segregation and Spatial Disadvantage? Intergenerational Contextual Mobility in France
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1507–1545.
Published: 15 June 2018
... of immigrants. Drawing on the official definition used in France, immigrants are persons born outside of France without French citizenship at birth. 6 Taking parental country of birth as a proxy for the origin of EDP children, I create three aggregated categories, representing the largest immigrant groups...
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Demographic Change, Rising Earnings Inequality, and the Distribution of Personal Well-Being, 1959–1989
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 August 1995
... an income equivalent to this ratio. We adopt a similar, though slightly more complicated, procedure in this paper. Our definition of adjusted income per person is = YuYA where YA = Adjusted income per person, Yu = unadjusted total family income, F = number of persons in family, H = number of persons...
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A new look at the easterlin “synthesis” framework
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 481–496.
Published: 01 November 1987
... of surviving children given a number of births and the number of births given fecundity and contraceptive effort- with their expected values. The model is clearly not meant to address dynamic issues or to deal with uncertainty in any but a cursory fashion. The virtue of the approach is that it gives a concise...
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War Fatalities in Russia in 2022–2023 Estimated Via Excess Male Mortality: A Research Note
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 335–347.
Published: 01 April 2025
... are somewhat higher than in the named list of known Russian military losses in the BBC News Russian/Mediazona (2023) dataset that is by definition incomplete. Our estimate is much lower than the one in Radford et al. (2023) , who counted about 77,000 Russian deaths in the first year of war. While our...
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Population Pyramids Yield Accurate Estimates of Total Fertility Rates
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 221–241.
Published: 28 January 2020
...? (NBER Working Paper No. 14266). Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research . Lesthaeghe R. ( 2014 ). The second demographic transition: A concise overview of its development . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 111 , 18112 – 18115 . O’Hare W. P. ( 2014...
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Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 37–59.
Published: 01 February 2004
... / pi), for I = 1, . . . I, where there are I different groups, and i pi = 1. With just two groups (i and ~i), p~i = 1 pi so the formula for E simplifies to E p p p p i i i i = + ( ) ln ln . 1 1 1 1 (1) If pi = 1 or pi = 0, let E = 0 by definition to avoid division by zero...
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Fertility change in five Latin American countries: A covariance analysis of birth intervals
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 February 1987
..., and criteria for the definition of the universe under study are reported 23 24 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 24, number 1, February 1987 elsewhere." The birth and marriage histories of the Colombian survey appear to be of satisfactory quality (Hobcraft 1980), and the same is true for the maternity history data from Costa...
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Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data: Example of the Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... apply the derivation for DHS couples’ data, but the simple theory extends to calculation of couple weights in other household surveys. The definition of a couple in the DHS is a heterosexual pair of married or in-union partners, with both partners being usual residents of the household and/or sleeping...
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Decomposing change in life expectancy: A bouquet of formulas in honor of Nathan Keyfitz’s 90th birthday
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 201–216.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the definition of life expectancy at birth in Eq. (1) and the fact that l( , ) ( , ) a t e x t dx a = 0 , it follows that the time derivative of life expectancy is e t a t da a t a t da a t x t dxda o a = = = ( , ) ( , ) ( , ) ( , ) ( , ) ( , ) .0 0 0 00l l l l (13) In terms of the rate...
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