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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 876–893.
Published: 01 June 1967
... comparable in terms of the maintenance burden they create. Similarly, constant labor-force participation rates were used to obtain estimates of the size of the population carrying this burden. When thus estimated, international differences in the dependency load are shown to be much smaller than is suggested...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 497–514.
Published: 01 June 1967
... connected with the determination of the economic activity of women cannot be elaborated further in this paper. Here the concern is merely to illustrate some of the probable future trends in a general way. 508 DEMOGRAPHY The effect of a decreasing dependency load seems apparent. The anticipated dis...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
..., F2j, Aj, and Qj. The factor loadings AIC, AlC, A.K, and AQc describe how the propensity to use contra- ception varies with a unit change in each of the underlying factors when the impacts of the other three factors are held constant. The factor Qj enters only the equations for contraceptive use...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 109–129.
Published: 01 February 2005
... the IFLS, see Thomas and Frankenberg 2002). One reason suggested for this obser- vation is that relative to the concrete task of carrying a heavy load, GHS is less well defined, and the meaning of "poor" health likely depends on the reference population against which a respondent compares his or her own...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 519–537.
Published: 01 November 1977
... of the pattern on the vari- ables of individual metropolitan areas in the patterns represented by the factors. They can in this way be seen as a weighted average on the variables over all observa- tions, somewhat analogous to the factor loadings in the case of R-technique. As an aid to assessing the extent...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 201–228.
Published: 06 December 2018
... the risk of pregnancy following a single act of unprotected sex load onto any of the reproductive knowledge factors. In our opinion, this is likely because there is not, in fact, a good answer to the question, given that the risk is highly dependent on the timing of sex relative to the menstrual cycle...
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View articletitled, Dimensions of Reproductive Attitudes and Knowledge Related to Unintended Childbearing Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1921–1946.
Published: 25 September 2017
... mortality trend; g ℓ , t is the ℓ th principal component of GDP for the I populations; and B j , x and γ ℓ , x are their respective age-specific loadings. The model includes L principal components of GDP, with L ≤ I . Although these principal components are estimated, we treat them...
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View articletitled, Modeling and Forecasting Mortality With Economic Growth: A Multipopulation Approach
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 485–511.
Published: 23 February 2017
... and the covariates Z t k . The matrices of coefficients D t k are known as the matrices of factor t loadings, and the relative size of these coefficients give an indication of the importance of the measure in the underlying latent variable. Note that Eqs. ( 5 ) and ( 6 ) are equivalent...
View articletitled, Children’s Development and Parental Input: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 431–447.
Published: 01 November 2000
... independent variables in- cluded in the model (Winship and Radbill 1994). RESULTS Table 1 presents three mediating factors physical environ- ment, cognitive stimulation, and parenting style derived by exploratory factor analysis from the items in the NLSY pre- school HOME. The table shows the factor loadings...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 437–447.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., assumes two rather than nine indicators. The model assumes a latent delinquency fac- tor for each person (DEL_P1 and DEL_P2) that is indicated by the two items (ITEM1 and ITEM2); the factor loadings (1 and a) and the error variances (b and c) are constrained to be equal for both individuals in the pair...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 165–183.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Christopher L. Seplaki; Noreen Goldman; Maxine Weinstein; Yu-Hsuan Lin Abstract The allostatic load framework postulates that an important pathway connecting the social environment with health involves biological responses to stressful stimuli and the subsequent dysregulation of interrelated...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 113–151.
Published: 09 January 2015
... synthetic control: W * V = argmin Z 1 − Z 0 W ′ V Z 1 − Z 0 W , where V is an arbitrary diagonal matrix of variable loadings. Abadie et al. ( 2010 ) suggested choosing the loading matrix that minimizes the root mean squared predicted error...
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View articletitled, Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples and Family Formation
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 317–340.
Published: 05 November 2013
... for the Netherlands and for synthetic Netherlands: W * V = arg min Z 1 − Z 0 W ′ V Z 1 − Z 0 W , where V is a diagonal matrix of variable loadings. Similar to Abadie et al. ( 2010 ), the matrix V is chosen so as to minimize the mean squared error in the pre...
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View articletitled, The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 699–724.
Published: 20 April 2011
... ). The ordering of individuals on this latent variable is influenced by all six health indicators that we use; the relative contribution of each is determined by the amount of shared variance (communality) with the other indicators, which is expressed by the loading of each indicator to the latent somatic health...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 February 1971
... Partici- pation in Family Decisions." Thus, each individual's answers were summed and averaged to form a simple Likert score: the higher the score, the greater the wife's participation in family decisions. These items and their factor loadings are shown in Table 1. Do wives have more influence in fam- ily...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1551–1572.
Published: 21 May 2014
... %). In random split-half samples, one-factor exploratory factor analysis (EFA) ( N 1 = 527) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) ( N 2 = 528) models for nine items with sufficient variability had significant loadings (0.575–0.883; 0.502–0.897) and good fit (RMSEA = 0.068, 0.048; CFI = 0.951, 0.978, TLI...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 629–656.
Published: 01 April 2025
... 2025 Income volatility Parenting styles Family economic stress model Mental load Inventive mothering Parenting in households with lower incomes is often deemed a worthy target of interventions aimed at reducing socioeconomic disparities in child well-being. By contrast, the extent...
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View articletitled, Income Volatility and Parenting Styles During Hard Times
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 497–516.
Published: 01 November 1987
... by positive principal component load- ings, is related to higher dependency ratios and population pressure indices, and to larger families on the average and greater disparity in ages. Lesser dependency, indicated by negative principal component loadings, is related to the absence of these characteristics...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1547–1574.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of the errors. L j = Latent subjective health at wave j . Z j = measures of self-reported health at wave j; j = 1,2,3,4,5. In-School = in-school self-reported health, measured at Wave I. α = latent intercept. β = latent slope. ( x ) = freely estimated loading factor with x starting value. Latent...
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View articletitled, Trajectories of Subjective Health: Testing Longitudinal Models for Self-rated Health From Adolescence to Midlife
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 217–230.
Published: 01 May 1986
... was performed on the scores from these items. Only one significant factor emerged. Using item loadings derived from this factor analysis, a factor score was computed for each subject. Factor scores have a mean of 220 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 23, number 2, May 1986 zero and a standard deviation of one. We have used...
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