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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 937–941.
Published: 01 June 1967
... on Urbanization of the Social Science Research Council has produced The Study of Urbanization . Although the book is an excellent series of documentations of trends in specific fields, it lacks any attempt to unify the contributions to a concise definition of urbanization. Most contributors view urbanization...
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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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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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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 685–696.
Published: 01 November 1973
... 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- quately covered. But the reader should be reminded again...
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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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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 517–524.
Published: 01 November 1973
... been studied by Kingsley Davis, 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...
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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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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
... health. Here, we formally define the Q-phase in human mortality via life table functions and the Siler model, and empirically document its existence using complete mortality data for Swedish cohorts born in 1800–1920. We trace trends in the Q-phase’s beginning and end under our definition...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 415–432.
Published: 01 November 1983
... fashion to both LDCs and DCs. The third, for reasons of manageability, will be limited here to LDCs. Mortality The first or "tradeoff" question re- quires a number of clarifying definitions before being addressed directly. By "factors of a health-focused, relatively nondevelopmental nature," I mean those...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2209–2225.
Published: 01 August 2013
... can therefore define the proximate illiteracy 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...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 347–373.
Published: 01 May 1994
... Animals . Demography , 24 , 443 – 65 . 10.2307/2061385 Livi-Bacci M. ( 1992 ). A Concise History of World Population . Cambridge, UK : Blackwell . Marcuse M. ( 1917 ). Der Eheliche Präventivverkehr: Seine Verbreitung, Verursachung und Methodik . Stuttgart : Ferdinand Enke...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1507–1545.
Published: 15 June 2018
... in France, or following the definition used by Sharkey ( 2008 :931), the extent to which “inequalities in neighborhood environments persist across generations.” Unlike extant studies, which focus only on spatial disadvantage, this study uses two indicators of neighborhood environments: ethnoracial...
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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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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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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 221–241.
Published: 28 January 2020
... outside this range, so F 10 = 0 in Eq. ( 2 ) when a = 15. 2 The coefficient values 10.65 and –12.55 are appropriate when W includes women aged [15 , 50). Researchers could use a similar regression procedure with HMD data to produce different coefficients for other definitions...
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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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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 February 1987
... covered by the study, sample size, 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...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... them with data. We 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...
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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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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1853–1868.
Published: 18 September 2015
... available in their home countries. In Denmark, in particular, this care was free. Furthermore, in the Norredam et al. ( 2014 ) study, one-third of migrants were refugees—who are much less likely to return home by definition—and labor migrants were excluded. Thus, the circumstances in the Danish study differ...
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