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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 785–801.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Shiro Horiuchi; John R. Wilmoth; Scott D. Pletcher Abstract A demographic measure is often expressed as a deterministic or stochastic function of multiple variables (covariates), and a general problem (the decomposition problem) is to assess contributions of individual covariates to a difference...
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 February 2009
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Wolfe (Eds.), Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility (pp. 1 – 48 ). New York : Russell Sage Foundation . Demography, Volume 46-Number 1, February 2009: 209 210 209 I COMPOSITION AND DECOMPOSITION IN NONMARITAL FERTILITY* LAWRENCE L. WU Ermisch (2009...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 429–449.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Albert Chevan; Michael Sutherland Abstract Standardization and decomposition are established and widely used demographic techniques for comparing rates and means between groups with differences in composition. The difference in rates and means has heretofore been resolved in terms...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 265–276.
Published: 01 May 1988
..., Vol. 25, No.2, May 1988 On the Decomposition of Changes in Expectation of Life and Differentials in Life Expectancy J. H. Pollard School of Economic and Financial Studies, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia 2109 The projection of mortality rates requires inter alia...
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 361–372.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Young J. Kim; Donna M. Strobino Abstract A decomposition method for the difference between two rates when data are classified by two factors, one of which may be considered as a more direct factor than the other for the event under consideration, is presented in this paper. The two factors...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 179.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Tim Futing Liao 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1991 1991 An Erratum for this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2061269 CORRECTIONS Tim Futing Liao. A Flexible Approach for the Decomposition of Rate Differences, Vol. 26, No.4, pp. 717-726...
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 717–726.
Published: 01 November 1989
... be generalized to decompositions for multiple groups and for multiple confounding factors. Kitagawa's method is a special case of this general approach. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Rate Effect Rate Difference Standard Group Component Effect Hierarchical...
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 315–334.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Wilma J. Nusselder; Caspar W. N. Looman Abstract Health expectancy is a widely used measure for monitoring trends in the health of a population and assessing differences in health among population groups. However, no decomposition method is available to examine the contribution made by causes...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 649–670.
Published: 01 November 2004
.... , & Bankston C.L. ( 1998 ). Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States . New York : Russell Sage Foundation . Poverty Among Children of Immigrants 649 Demography, Volume 41-Number 4, November 2004: 649 670 649 P A DECOMPOSITION OF TRENDS IN POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 158–171.
Published: 01 March 1967
... Berelson Bernard , & Freedman Ronald ( 1964 ). A Study in Fertility Control . Scientific American , CCX ( 5 ), 3 – 11 . MEASURING ACCEPTANCES IN A FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM: THE DECOMPOSITION OF RATES BY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA JOHN Y. TAKESHITA AND RONALD FREEDMAN* RESUMEN Las tasas de...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1579–1602.
Published: 28 July 2017
...Dmitri A. Jdanov; Vladimir M. Shkolnikov; Alyson A. van Raalte; Evgeny M. Andreev Abstract This study proposes a new decomposition method that permits a difference in an aggregate measure at a final time point to be split into additive components corresponding to the initial differences...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 957–978.
Published: 04 June 2018
...Adrien Remund; Carlo G. Camarda; Tim Riffe Abstract We propose a method to decompose the young adult mortality hump by cause of death. This method is based on a flexible shape decomposition of mortality rates that separates cause-of-death contributions to the hump from senescent mortality. We apply...
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 549–551.
Published: 01 November 1979
... of the American Statistical Association , 50 , 1168 – 1194 . 10.2307/2281213 . Michael Robert T. ( 1978 ). The Rise in Divorce Rates, 1960-1974: Age-Specific Components . Demography , 15 , 177 – 182 . 10.2307/2060521 . DEMOGRAPHY © Volume 16, Number 4 November 1979 DECOMPOSITION...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 979–1005.
Published: 22 May 2020
... decomposition method to assess the contribution of five demographic/social factors (age, education, marriage, fertility, and infant mortality) to the IMDI trend. Nonmarital fertility among women with less than 12 years of education contributed most to Whites’ changing IMDI; for Blacks, a shrinking proportion...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 February 2021
... that is due to the structural change in the hazard functions. This decomposition is achieved by employing the random survival forest, allowing me to predict the counterfactual infant survival probability that infants in the 2010s would have under the circumstantial environments of the 1990s. The results show...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1675–1688.
Published: 01 December 2023
... structure and transition probabilities to differences in state-specific life expectancies from multistate models. Copyright © 2023 The Authors 2023 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Multistate life table Decomposition...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 141–151.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Herbert L. Smith; S. Philip Morgan; Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox Abstract We use a method of standardization and decomposition developed by Das Gupta to update Smith and Cutright’s analysis of demographic factors responsible for increases in the nonmarital fertility ratio (illegitimacy ratio) among blacks...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1429–1450.
Published: 27 September 2011
... of America 2011 2011 Obesity Decomposition Note that our framework, which partitions BMI determinants into n = 3 components, allows a total of 2 n – 1 = 7 counterfactual distributions and weights for black women to be computed. The counterfactual distributions f A ( b ), f B ( b...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2307–2321.
Published: 20 November 2019
... the mechanism involved, this study extends existing decomposition methods. The extended method decomposes change in the sex gap in life expectancy at birth into three components capturing the effects of the sex difference in mortality improvement (ρ-effect), life table deaths density by age ( f -effect...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
... determinants of Black–White disparities in biological aging remain inadequately understood. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study ( n = 6,782), multivariable regression, and Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to assess Black–White disparities across three measures of biological aging...
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