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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 467–484.
Published: 01 August 2002
... 1990 file, we examine the home languages of second- and third-generation children and compare the degree of their language shift against that among the descendants of European immigrants, as evidenced in the 1940 and 1970 censuses. Overall, the rates of speaking only English for a number...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 387–397.
Published: 01 August 1999
... by these items and discuss their interpretation. I conclude with a summary of the major insights and limitations of a century’s worth of data. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Government Printing Mother Tongue English Proficiency Home Language United States Census...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 111–132.
Published: 01 February 1996
... a modest reduction between 1980 and 1991 in the role of race in socioeconomic attainment, the overall picture shows more stability than change. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1996 1996 Racial Difference Racial Group Occupational Status Home Language Occupational...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 759–783.
Published: 01 November 2003
... that English spoken at home is not a significant predictor of the completion of school in the face of other controls (Vernez and Abrahamse 1996). Many students come from bilingual backgrounds in which they retain the language of their parents or grandparents country of origin and speak English...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 2001
... at home. The result would be less proficiency in the destination language. If the immigrant married a person not proficient in the immigrant s origin lan- guage, there would be greater use of, and proficiency in, the destination language. Thus the effect of marriage per se be- fore immigration is likely...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 569–592.
Published: 05 February 2015
... include race/ethnicity, 2 gender, disability status, grade level, birth date, birthplace, language most frequently spoken at home, and whether the student is classified as ELL. Using the birthplace variable, I identify immigrants as students not born on U.S. soil, which means that students born...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 901–925.
Published: 01 June 2021
... New Rural 9.52 19.61 25.92 27.69 Unknown 27.96 33.99 40.45 43.10 Mother's birthplace Born abroad 1.25 1.57 0.96 2.10 Born locally 56.22 51.83 45.64 46.84 Unknown 42.53 46.60 53.41 51.07 Mother's home language English 17.55 20.08 20.60...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 639–654.
Published: 01 November 2002
... not estimate the percentage of LEP students who are low income. LEP The schools used a variety of methods to identify LEP students, including parents re- quests, teachers referrals, home language surveys, oral or written language examinations, the students previous school records, and the results...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 199–212.
Published: 01 May 1997
... FOR IDENTIFYING JEWS AND PARs AMONG THE ISRAELI-BORN, 1990 U.S. CENSUS n= 627 (13,839) Arabic Armenian Arab n= 699 (15,427) n = 1,178 (25,444) n= 72 (1,588) Jew n= 3,590 (79,127) Language Spoken at Home G 11 n= 2,142 (53,683) Hebrew Yiddish Ancestry Ancestry 1 or 2 1 or 2 1 1 yes Arab no no Arab yes Palestinian...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 419–450.
Published: 01 April 2021
... at the time of the age 1 interview, including parental care, crèche, assistante maternelle, private nanny (in the child's home), or informal care provided by grandparents, friends, or neighbors. We focus on three developmental outcomes: language skills, motor skills, and child behavior. We use...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 251–267.
Published: 01 May 2002
... modern methods are most prevalent. The difference in choice of method may be a function of the wider variety of methods and the greater access to them that is provided by the home-based service delivery approach in Bangladesh. Table 1 also shows the distribution of the primary covariates of contraception...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 857–875.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Viola Angelini; Marco Bertoni; Guglielmo Weber Abstract The age at leaving the parental home has significant implications for social and economic outcomes across the life course, highlighting the importance of examining nest-leaving patterns. We study the role of childhood standard of living...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 497–521.
Published: 01 August 2005
... into neighborhoods that are inhabited predominantly by the non-Hispanic white majority. Indeed, it is possible that some individual-level characteristics that have been used as predictors in these models (e.g., income, educational attainment, home ownership, and English-language use) are a consequence, rather than...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 243–268.
Published: 01 May 1993
... mortgage loans, savings, or family connections. Home ownership may serve in part as a proxy for such unmeasured variables. Acculturation This predictor includes English-language ability (those who speak only English at home, who speak English well in addition to another language, and who do not speak...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 61–98.
Published: 15 January 2020
... upper secondary; 18 (2) the child’s gender; and (3) migration background, with mothers classified as nonnatives if they were born abroad, given the absence of information on the mothers’ native tongue or the primary language spoken at home. Table A4 in the online appendix provides a concise...
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 599–615.
Published: 01 November 1995
... little effect on Cuban levels of crowding or home values, except for the association between household and aggregate housing prices. In addition, for Cubans, age and Spanish language use do not affect these two housing outcomes. One reason why these factors may have small predictive power...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
... is that these individuals are subject to similar immigration push factors and share the same sending-country environment before migration to the United States, yet the latter are exposed to English at home, giving them a relative edge in language and communication development upon arrival. In other words, the assumption...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1197–1221.
Published: 01 August 2021
... across the entire set of advertisements. Table 1 STM topics from Craigslist rental listings Label Words a % General apart, home, communiti, center, pool, call, offer, locat, fit, bedroom 24.6 Availability apart, avail, leas, today, price, unit, manag, chang, properti...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 535–551.
Published: 01 August 2009
... diploma or equivalent, compared with 11% of natives (U.S. Census Bureau 2006); about 83% of immigrants speak a language other than English at home, with 35% of them reporting speaking English not well or not at all (Grieco 2003). These lower average levels of education and English ability could result...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 513–542.
Published: 07 March 2015
... in Africa as well as South and Eastern Asia. In the Australian population today, approximately one in four were born overseas, of which more than one-half came from non-English-speaking countries. As of this writing, nearly one-fifth of Australia’s population speaks a language other than English at home...
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