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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 675–697.
Published: 06 May 2011
...Anne Case; Christina Paxson Abstract We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS-related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Ian M. Timæus; Momodou Jasseh Abstract This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the countries’ Demographic and Health Surveys. Adult mortality has risen sharply since...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of this study is to assess how interviewers affect the probability of women reporting abortions in nationally representative household surveys: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). We use cross-classified random intercepts at the level of the interviewer and the sampling cluster in a Bayesian framework...
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 4 Number of births by age in months. DHS = Demographic and Health Surveys. Vertical guidelines show round ages. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from 62 countries, various years.
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... derived. We present a method of estimating appropriate weights for couples that extends methods currently used in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for individual weights. To see how results vary, we analyze 1912 estimates (means; proportions; linear regression; and simple and multinomial logistic...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Anastasia J. Gage; A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt; Andrea L. Piani Abstract In this study, we use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the relationship between household structure and childhood immunization in Niger and Nigeria. We show that household structure is an important...
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 83–99.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Wamucii Njogu Abstract This study uses the 1977-1978 Kenya Fertility Survey and the 1989 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey to examine trends and determinants of contraceptive use in Kenya. A substantial increase in contraceptive use occurred in Kenya over the decade. Yet although the increase...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 459–475.
Published: 01 August 1993
...J. Ties Boerma; George Stroh Abstract Demographic and health surveys are a useful source of information on the levels and trends of neonatal mortality in developing countries. Such surveys provide data on mortality occurring at 4–14 days of life, which is a sensitive indicator of neonatal tetanus...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 209–215.
Published: 01 May 1994
... Transition in Southern Africa: Yet Another Look at the Evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe* Ann K. Blanc Shea O. Rutstein Demographic and Health Surveys Program Macro International Inc. 11785 Beltsville Dr. Calverton, MD 20705 Fertility trends in sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of much recent...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1996
... national surveys recently conducted in Egypt: the United Nations PAPCHILD survey of 1990–1991 and the Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) of 1992. The survey instrument included questions regarding notification of the death at the local health bureau. If the family said the death had been...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 677–698.
Published: 09 March 2012
... A. ( 2006 ). Egypt demographic and health survey 2005 . Ministry of Health and Population, National Population Council . Cairo, Egypt : El-Zanaty and Associates and ORC Macro . Fricke T. ( 1997 ). The uses of culture in demographic research: A continuing place for community studies...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 397–425.
Published: 01 August 2005
... investigated whether the health of urban women and children in poor countries is influenced by both household and neighborhood standards of living. Using data from the urban samples of 85 Demographic and Health Surveys and modeling living standards using factor-analytic MIMIC methods, we found...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1295–1316.
Published: 13 June 2018
... whether women give birth in a health facility. We combine geocoded data on violent events from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program with georeferenced survey data on the use of maternal health care services from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Our sample covers 569,201 births by 390,574 mothers in 31...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1765–1790.
Published: 07 October 2019
... approach and combining individual-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys with district-level data on the intensity of the reform, we tested whether increased maternal schooling reduced children’s probability of dying before age 5. In Malawi, for each additional year of maternal education, children...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 27–36.
Published: 01 February 2022
... in the Trajectoires et Origines survey with a sample of women living in the same six African countries in the Demographic and Health Surveys. Descriptive analyses indicate that the contraceptive use of migrants more closely aligns with that of native French women than with that of women from origin countries...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 271–294.
Published: 30 January 2018
...-Saharan Africa and how such differential mortality varies between women at different stages of the demographic transition. Using data from 79 Demographic and Health Surveys, I find that a child being undesired according to the mother is associated with a differential mortality that is not due to constant...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 707–728.
Published: 28 January 2019
...Fig. 4 Number of births by age in months. DHS = Demographic and Health Surveys. Vertical guidelines show round ages. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from 62 countries, various years. ...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 February 1995
... on contraceptive use, based on data from the 1988 Tunisia Demographic and Health Survey. Demography, Vol. 32, No.1, February 1995 Binary Outcomes and Endogenous Explanatory Variables: Tests and Solutions with an Application to the Demand for Contraceptive Use in Tunisia* Kenneth A. Bollen Department of Sociology...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 935–968.
Published: 06 May 2019
... births per woman up to 15 years following the conflict. We use individual-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys, estimating survival and count data models. This article contributes to the literature on the demographic effects of violent conflict by testing two channels through which conflict...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2113–2141.
Published: 16 October 2020
... from 25 sub-Saharan African countries, combining records of violent events from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) with data on fertility goals and outcomes from the Demographic and Health Surveys ( n = 368,765 women aged 15–49 years). We estimate a series of linear and logistic...
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