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The Use of Hypothetical Cohorts in Estimating Demographic Parameters under Conditions of Changing Fertility and Mortality

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Hania Zlotnik, Kenneth Hill
Demography (1981) 18 (1): 103–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061052
Published: 01 February 1981
... Factors for the Brass Technique for Determining Childhood Survivorship Rates . Population Studies , 29 , 97 – 107 . 10.2307/2173427 DEMOGRAPHV@ Volume 18, Number 1 February 1981 THE USE OF HYPOTHETICAL COHORTS IN ESTIMATING DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS UNDER CONDITIONS OF CHANGING FERTILITY...
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Relations between demographic parameters

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Lloyd Demetrius
Demography (1979) 16 (2): 329–338.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061146
Published: 01 May 1979
... mortality distributions with the same mean life expectation. This class of parameters measures the convexity of the fertility and mortality distributions. This paper analyzes the relations between the entropy parameter and the standard demographic parameters. 8 1 2011 © Population Association...
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The demographic evolution of human populations: The role of selection and environmental factors

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Lloyd Demetrius
Demography (1989) 26 (3): 353–372.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061598
Published: 01 August 1989
... in the demographic variables. These conditions, which can be expressed in terms of relations between the Malthusian parameter and population entropy, provide a means for evaluating the effect of selective and nonselective factors on demographic trends in human populations. The distinction between the roles...
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Reply to “On ‘a new look at entropy and the life table’” by S. Mitra

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Noreen Goldman, Graham Lord
Demography (1987) 24 (3): 441–442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061310
Published: 01 August 1987
..., but this limit behavior is insufficient by itself to force the boundedness of H. In our demonstration of life tables exhibiting an H value larger than one, we chose two families of curves that could be used for modeling all or part of the survival function. The first family, which is parameterized by K (which...
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A new look at entropy and the life table

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Noreen Goldman, Graham Lord
Demography (1986) 23 (2): 275–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061621
Published: 01 May 1986
.... ( 1979 ). Relations between demographic parameters . Demography , 16 , 329 – 338 . 10.2307/2061146 Demetrius L. , &amp; Ziehe M. ( 1984 ). The measurement of Darwinian fitness in human populations . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B , 222 , 33 – 50 . 10.1098/rspb...
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Life table transformations and inequality measures: Some noteworthy formal relationships

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Ralph Hakkert
Demography (1987) 24 (4): 615–622.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061396
Published: 01 November 1987
...(a) = - JL(a, A) , dA A=Ao (12) where JL(a, A) now represents any analytical transformation of JL<a) parameterized by Aand Ao is the value of the parameter A that leaves the force of mortality JL<a, A) unchanged. It is a matter of straightforward calculus to prove that this implies that 1 d 1 fW fa - -- e(O...
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Household and Living Arrangement Projections at the Subnational Level: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach

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Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Zhenglian Wang, Danan Gu
Demography (2013) 50 (3): 827–852.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0171-3
Published: 04 December 2012
... 1974 ), and other parameterized models (e.g., Coale and Trussell 1974 ; Rogers 1986 ) in population projections and estimations. Numerous studies have demonstrated that the relational parameterized models consisting of a model standard schedule and a few summary parameters offer an efficient...
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Shared Lifetimes, Multigenerational Exposure, and Educational Mobility

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Xi Song, Robert D. Mare
Demography (2019) 56 (3): 891–916.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00772-8
Published: 16 May 2019
... demographic parameters across generations while ignoring possible changes associated with time. The limitation of this method is similar to that of population projection, in which the prediction for future generations is based on observed demographic behaviors in the present period and thus is not a real...
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Skewed Sex Ratios at Birth and Future Marriage Squeeze in China and India, 2005–2100

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Christophe Z. Guilmoto
Demography (2012) 49 (1): 77–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0083-7
Published: 17 December 2011
... countries because of their demographic weight in the world and their early rise in SRB over the last two decades. For this article, compared with previous studies, demographic parameters have been updated and the study period extended from the conventional year 2050 to 2100 in view of the especially long...
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Estimation of mortality from orphanhood in adulthood

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Ian M. Timæus
Demography (1991) 28 (2): 213–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061276
Published: 01 May 1991
... . Timaeus , I.M. , &amp; Graham , W.J. ( 1989 ). Measuring Adult Mortality in Developing Countries: A Review and Assessment of Methods . Washington, DC : The World Bank . Zlotnik , H. , &amp; Hill , K. ( 1981 ). The Use of Hypothetical Cohorts in Estimating Demographic Parameters...
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Immigration, below-replacement fertility, and long-term national population trends

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S. Mitra
Demography (1990) 27 (1): 121–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061557
Published: 01 February 1990
... of the two populations. In fact, that may be the most significant parameter to influence the formulation of national immigration policies. In this article I outline a procedure for measuring some of the demographic characteristics of the two populations. Analytical expressions are obtained first with any...
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HIV and population dynamics: A general model and maximum-likelihood standards for East Africa

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Patrick Heuveline
Demography (2003) 40 (2): 217–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0013
Published: 01 May 2003
... populations. The fitted model simulates HIV and population dynamics with standard demographic inputs and only two additional parameters for the onset and scale of the epidemic. The underestimation of the general prevalence of HIV in samples of pregnant women and the fertility impact of HIV are examples...
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Movement toward stability as a fundamental principle of population dynamics

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Robert Schoen, Young J. Kim
Demography (1991) 28 (3): 455–466.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061467
Published: 01 August 1991
... , L. ( 1979 ). Relations between Demographic Parameters . Demography , 16 , 329 – 38 . 10.2307/2061146 Freeman , H. ( 1960 ). Finite Differences for Actuarial Students . Cambridge : Cambridge UniversityPress . Golubitsky , M. , Keeler , E.B. , &amp; Rothschild...
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Examination of the generalized age distribution

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Young J. Kim
Demography (1986) 23 (3): 451–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061441
Published: 01 August 1986
... populations, and formalized it into a new synthesis of population dynamics. In this landmark paper, they presented various relationships among demographic parameters in any population, generalizing the results that hold for stable populations. They then used the new equations to illustrate how demographic...
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Estimating the Co-Development of Cognitive Decline and Physical Mobility Limitations in Older U.S. Adults

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Nicholas J. Bishop, Natalie D. Eggum-Wilkens, Steven A. Haas, Jennie J. Kronenfeld
Demography (2016) 53 (2): 337–364.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0458-x
Published: 02 March 2016
... for the separate trajectories followed by estimation of an unconditional parallel process model. Controls for demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, and chronic health conditions were added to the best-fitting parallel process model. Pattern mixture models were used to assess the sensitivity...
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Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood

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Marc Luy
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 607–627.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0101-4
Published: 17 March 2012
... of Marriage and the Family , 57 , 515 – 526 . 10.2307/353703 Schmertmann, C. P. (2003). A system of model fertility schedules with graphically intuitive parameters. Demographic Research, 9, article 5, 81–110. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2003.9.5 Shkolnikov V. M. , Andreev E. M. , Jasilionis D...
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Modeling and Forecasting Populations by Time Series: The Swedish Case

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Joao L. M. Saboia
Demography (1974) 11 (3): 483–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060440
Published: 01 August 1974
... forecasting. This is due to the fact that in order to have good estimates for the parameters of the model we should use at least 50 observations of the time series (Box and Jenkins, 1970). Even Sweden, which is the country with the best de- mographic data, has not such a long demographic history if five-year...
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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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James W. Vaupel, Vladimir Canudas Romo
Demography (2003) 40 (2): 201–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0018
Published: 01 May 2003
... – 112 . 10.2307/2060493 Das Gupta P. ( 1993 ). Standardization and Decomposition of Rates: A User’s Manual . Washington, DC : U.S. Bureau of the Census . Demetrius L. ( 1979 ). Relations Between Demographic Parameters . Demography , 16 , 329 – 38 . 10.2307/2061146...
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A mathematical model for resource allocation in population programs

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Charles E. Lawrence, Axel I. Mundigo, Charles S. ReVelle
Demography (1972) 9 (3): 465–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060867
Published: 01 August 1972
...- tioned by available data and program parameters that might not be exactly duplicated elsewhere. Yet with minor modifications the model can be used in the evaluation of other family planning programs. At present, the model is being expanded to include demographic, pro- gram, and resource parameters not ex...
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The demographic rates and social institutions of the nineteenth-century negro population: a stable population analysis

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Reynolds Farley
Demography (1965) 2 (1): 386–398.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060126
Published: 01 March 1965
... model life table." He argued that °eo and °elO were so closely related that a life table could be parameterized by either value. To ob- tain °elO' it became necessary to determine the percentage of the population at age 10, that is, c(1O). Since single year tabula- tions were either unavailable or badly...
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