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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 443–453.
Published: 01 August 1972
... that may perhaps be preferable to multi- ple regression procedures in certain em- pirical situations that resemble the data situation confronted by those engaged in subnational population estimation. We note that formula (7) provides m different estimates for each (y' - ii') value, the same being true...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2193–2218.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to address this situation, we complement traditional data sources for the United Kingdom with social media data: our aim is to understand whether information from digital traces can help measure international migration. The Bayesian framework proposed is used to combine data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 145–154.
Published: 01 February 1988
... liaisons, lawyers, and advertising agencies. They have also had to revise data collection and processing procedures. In some situations, they have had to suspend censuses and surveys. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1988 1988 Statistical Agency Data Protection Privacy...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 251–266.
Published: 01 April 2024
... situating it within individuals’ lives and describing heterogeneity across population subgroups and geographic locations. Unfortunately, data limitations mean that research on fertility in the United States has long been bifurcated both in its focus and in the data it uses. One strand of research...
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Published: 10 October 2012
Fig. 3 Fitted mean BMI values by age for men (upper graph) and women (lower graph) on the data from the health interview survey 1990 and Periodic Survey of the Life Situation 2004 (POLS) of Statistics Netherlands More
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 531–558.
Published: 18 May 2011
... with the situation of urban-to-rural migrants. We use DHS data from 18 African countries to compare child mortality rates of six groups based on their mothers’ migration status: rural nonmigrants; urban nonmigrants; rural-to-urban migrants before and after they migrate; and urban-to-rural migrants before and after...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 537–554.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in coresi- dence prompts a change in caretaker. Second, our study does not indicate who is moving. That is, the data do not distinguish situations in which the older adult is moving in with a child from those in which a child is moving in with the older adult. Each situation may occur for different reasons...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 391–409.
Published: 01 November 1977
... is decreasing rapidly may be similarly affected. When substantial deviations from the linear relationship are evident, particular caution is required in applying the biometric tech- nique, since in such situations the estimated endogenous mortality is very much affected by the particular set of data points...
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 321–336.
Published: 01 August 1978
..., suggesting an experience parallel to the decline in U.S. rural fertility in the late nineteenth century, which Easterlin and others have attributed to increased scarcity of land for starting new farm households. Multivariate analysis of the Brazilian data shows parallels between the two situations but also...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 February 1976
... for nationalities in 1959–1960. The same theoretical model used to generate the Soviet rates may be adapted under different assumptions to non-Soviet populations in other situations where the data are scanty or incomplete. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Total Fertility...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 37–44.
Published: 01 February 1976
.... Potter and Parker (1964) and Singh (1961, 1967) suggested the Type I Geometric distribution for analyz- ing data on first conception times. Singh (1961, 1964) proposed a continuous time model for the same situation. These models are based on the common as- sumption that all the females under study...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 391–405.
Published: 01 August 1983
...James Trussell; Randall Olsen Abstract In a previous issue of this journal, Olsen proposed a technique for quantifying the fertility response to child mortality. To estimate the extent of child replacement, one needs data only on the number of children ever born and the number of child deaths...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 12–23.
Published: 01 February 1996
...-risks hazards models have been developed to model such situations. This paper describes the ex- tension of the discrete-time competing-risks hazards model to a multilevel framework that allows for data at different levels ofag- gregation. The model is illustrated with data from the 1988 Chi- nese...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 249–255.
Published: 01 May 1972
.... These estimates are obtained after several iterations starting from any set of consistent estimates. The objective of this paper is to show that it is relatively easier to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters of the continuous model, which describes the data on duration to first conception...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 607–630.
Published: 01 April 2023
... into an actionable imagined future and make decisions that may be relatively independent from their actual economic situation. We test this hypothesis for Italy by combining individual-level data from the 2009 and 2016 releases of the nationally representative Family and Social Subjects Survey with Media Tenor data...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 1965
... acceptable toa majority, there wasa preference for individ- ual visits in homes. Inasmuch as this is only a pretest study of one tiny area, it can beonly broadly suggestive of the situation in rural areas generally in Latin America. However, the fact that the data were obtained readily and with apparent...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
... and was therefore unconstitutional, the Department of Justice began litigation procedures to repeal it. But evidence was needed to prove that the law was in fact discriminatory. The lawyers contacted demographers at the Bureau of the Census to provide data to determine if the majority of persons affected were Negro...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1377–1398.
Published: 13 September 2016
... that a temporary stressful situation allows couples more quickly to discern the quality of their relationship, in some cases leading them to divorce sooner than they otherwise would have. We formalize this argument in a model of Bayesian updating and test it using data from Denmark. We find that the incidence...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1425–1449.
Published: 05 July 2017
... agricultural settings. Using panel data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study to analyze the sequential decision-making process that influences men’s living arrangements subsequent to first marriage, we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing among extended family living, temporary migration...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 297–322.
Published: 07 February 2020
... that national origin shapes patterns of childbearing within fertility covariates. We use data from Statistics South Africa and the United States Census Bureau harmonized in the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International for a disaggregated analysis of the odds of a birth in the past year among...
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