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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 433–438.
Published: 01 March 1968
..., with the facts that the enormous expenditure does not justify an ineffective program and that high failure rates meant both loss of prestige for the program and increased rates of abortions, leads the authors to conclude that application on a national scale can be termed impossible, if not hazardous. 13 1...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 525–548.
Published: 01 August 1994
... methods. The results show that failure to control for emigration has a significant effect on the measurement of naturalization, particularly if an immigrant group has relatively high rate of emigration. Some further substantive implications of this new method are also explored. Naturalization is the final...
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2003
... of program quality: high switching rates may re- flect an adequate range of available methods or, on the other hand, poor counseling re- garding the initial method choice, poor management of side effects, or intermittent sup- plies of the original method. Contraceptive failure is somewhat different from...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 153–165.
Published: 01 May 1996
... to compare alternative channels, equal consideration of "effectiveness" seems warranted. II. In the group of private providers, users supplied by pharmacy pur- chases seem most likely to account for the high failure rate. The small subsample sizes (by private provider type) prohibit a more fully disaggre...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 February 1996
... in- cluded in the study. The estimated proportion of contracep- tive users who were also amenorrheic ranged from 4.2% in Costa Rica to 23.7% in Indonesia and 38.8% in Bangladesh. Such high levels of redundant protection could have consid- erable implications for the estimation of failure rates...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 119–137.
Published: 01 February 2002
... Rates and Declines in Functional Limitation 127 specificity of diagnoses (for arteriosclerosis and congestive heart failure). The results of the trends in chronic diseases are similar to those obtained by Costa (2000b) for a smaller sample and a more limited set of conditions. How credible are the high...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2000
... the twentieth century. Costa (1998) finds that in the 1930s, rates of blindness among those aged 65 to 84 were four times as high as in the 1990s. Fogel and Costa (1997) find that men older than 64 in 1910 were much more likely to suffer from heart, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and digestive disorders than...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 97–124.
Published: 01 February 2010
...** **3.73** **3.53** **4.62** **4.28** **4.24** Adjusted **4.18** **3.69** **3.50** **4.64** **4.30** **4.25** High Unadjusted **2.76** **2.81** **2.59** **3.09** **2.84** **2.96** Adjusted **2.79** **2.88** **2.63** *3.16* **2.95** **3.03** Total Marital Fertility Rate Residence Urban Unadjusted **4.20...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1739–1764.
Published: 03 May 2013
... in 2011, 41.9 % of currently married women aged 15–49 used oral contraceptives, condoms, or traditional methods, all of which have high rates of discontinuation or failure; slightly more than 11.2 % used injectables, which have low failure rates but, like oral contraceptives, have high discontinuation...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 663–672.
Published: 01 November 1973
... excessively low or high, this should be apparent in the resulting birth and pregnancy rates. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1973 1973 Pregnancy Rate Fetal Loss Vital Event Nonwhite Woman Nancy Rate References Berkov , Beth ( 1971 ). Illegitimate Fertility...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 297–304.
Published: 01 June 1966
... of contra- ceptors is followed, the lower will be their Pearl pregnancy rate, owing to the fact that the successful contraceptors among them will be able to contribute longer experiences and therefore more months of pregnancy-free exposure, thereby diluting the high pregnancy rates of the initial exposure...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1433–1452.
Published: 04 August 2012
... et al. 2004 ), and black and poorer women experiencing much higher rates of contraceptive failure than white and more affluent women (Kost et al. 2008 ). The high proportion of pregnancies that are unintended, even among women who used contraception during the month of conception, suggests...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 487–509.
Published: 01 November 1981
... Fertility Study. There was a large decline in the number of intended conceptions, a recent large rise in the extent of their delay, a very large decline in rates of failure to delay or terminate fertility, and a very large recent rise in sterilization. But one problem proved important and intractable: When...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 February 1984
... procedures, linkage rates for the black population shown in Table 2 are extremely high. Most striking are the very high rates of linkage among the 5-I9 year olds for both black males and black females. Even if all the linkage failure (13.6%)for this age group of black males were attributed...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 445–454.
Published: 01 November 1969
... of these Prediction of Completed Fertility 453 TABLE 6.-Cumulative Failure Rates by Interval of Contraceptive Use, Whether "Limiting" or "Spacing," and Religion Cumulative failure rate Number contracepting Prot- Cath- Jew- Prot- Cath- Jew- Birth interval Total estant olic ish Total estant olic ish First .32 .36 .34...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the administrative data matches by comparing rates of missing matches when there are death reports in the survey. We pursue this strategy in Table 2 , which reveals high rates of likely false negatives —a failure to match when in all likelihood a death has occurred—for both the VS90 and SSA12 matches. The error...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 573–580.
Published: 01 November 1975
..., 1972). The detailed calendar information we collected also enabled us to estimate rates of discontinuation of these methods and to describe the trend in these rates (Westoff and Jones, 1975). The monthly drop-out rate for women on the pill de- clined from a high of nearly three per- cent early...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 189–197.
Published: 01 May 1997
...-child certificate and of the woman's education level had high correlations (-0.80 and -0.69, respec- tively) in more-developed areas. We also calculated correla- tion coefficients for the estimates from the mixture model using the Weibull failure time model, in which the survival function definitely...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1023–1050.
Published: 17 April 2019
..., are not driving individuals’ hazard rates of exiting unemployment. 27 So far, our study has considered only employment as a possible failure for unemployment. We now investigate whether trust may also affect additional labor market dimensions—notably, immigrants’ probability of slipping into inactivity...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1327–1346.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... The United States has a substantially higher rate of unintended pregnancy than other high-income countries. In a cross-national comparison of unintended pregnancy around 2012, Sedgh et al. (2014) showed that North America (the United States and Canada) had an unintended pregnancy fraction—at 51...
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