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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 751–775.
Published: 17 October 2012
...Andrés Villarreal; Sarah Blanchard Abstract Despite the importance given to employment opportunities as a primary motive for migration, previous studies have paid insufficient attention to the kinds of jobs that are more likely to retain workers in their countries of origin. We use information from...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 115–128.
Published: 01 February 2008
... at intervals that are longer than one year. In such cases, collecting health information retrospectively for the years skipped by the survey is useful. The main purpose of this paper is to show how retrospective health information can be used to estimate life expectancies in different health states. Healthy...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 513–523.
Published: 01 November 1997
...John S. Akin; Jeffrey J. Rous Abstract We use surveys of households and health-care facilities conducted in the same area at the same time to determine which characteristics of providers attract users of contraceptives. By using the full-information maximum-likelihood technique to jointly estimate...
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 1986
.... Second, we examine the sensitivity of return migration to economic conditions at both destination and origin. The model proposed allows the relative weights attached to information on the two locations to vary as the interval of absence lengthens. Econometric evidence indicates that conditions...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 413–423.
Published: 01 November 1969
...Thea Zelman Hambright Abstract A sample of death certificates matched with 1960 Census records permitted comparison of response data for items asked on both records. Estimates of bias in death rates which are based on information from the two records are derived from the comparison data. Most...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 331–340.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Sarah Hobbs; Reynolds Farley; Halliman H. Winsborougha Summary This article explores the methodology of designing a storage and retrieval system for information on the nature and subjects of censuses published internationally over the past two decades. The essential key is neither data storage nor...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1117–1143.
Published: 18 June 2020
... interventions to correct innumeracy regarding the size of the immigrant population, but they did not detect any effects on attitudes. We study whether providing information not only about the size but also about the characteristics of the immigrant population can have stronger effects. We conduct two online...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 140–186.
Published: 01 March 1965
..., and a number of demographic surveys, most of the countries have only a little information to offer to the student of TRENDS IN THE COMPONENTS OF POPULATION GROWTH IN THE ARAB COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST: A SURVEY OF PRESENT INFORMATION* M. A. EL-BADRY Cairo University RESUMEN Este trabajo intenta proporcionar...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 99–122.
Published: 01 February 2023
... with earlier birth cohorts is not well understood. Even less well-known are the age and cohort trends in informal helping provided to friends and neighbors in later adulthood. Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimated age and cohort trends in formal volunteering and informal...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 171–187.
Published: 01 May 1997
... Association of America 1997 1997 Global Position System Graphic Information System Family Planning Travel Time Travel Speed References Albert D.P. , Gesler W.M. , & Wittie P. ( 1995 ). Geographic Information Systems and Health: An Educational Resource . Journal...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): n1.
Published: 01 August 2008
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 607–627.
Published: 17 March 2012
.... In order to overcome these shortcomings, I modify and extend the so-called orphanhood method for indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey information on maternal and paternal survival to allow its application to populations of developed countries. The method is demonstrated and tested with data...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 699–724.
Published: 20 April 2011
...George B. Ploubidis; Emily Grundy Abstract Our primary aim is to develop and validate a population health metric for survey-based health assessment that combines information from both self-reported and observer-measured health indicators. A secondary objective is to use this index to examine gender...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1197–1221.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Max Besbris; Ariela Schachter; John Kuk Abstract As more urban residents find their housing through online search tools, recent research has theorized the potential for online information to transform and equalize the housing search process. Yet, very little is known about what rental housing...
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Published: 09 May 2014
Fig. 2 Bayesian information criterion (BIC) statistic compared with the saturated models for different log-linear models fit to Brazilian marriage data. Lower values indicate superior fit. Black bars indicate the case where browns and blacks are collapsed into a single category. Gray bars
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in Family Policy Awareness and Marital Intentions: A National Survey Experimental Study
> Demography
Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 2 Effects of policy information exposure on women's marital intentions, by education level
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in Family Policy Awareness and Marital Intentions: A National Survey Experimental Study
> Demography
Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 3 Effects of policy information exposure on men's marital intentions, by education level
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in Age and Cohort Trends in Formal Volunteering and Informal Helping in Later Life: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
> Demography
Published: 01 February 2023
Fig. 3 Age-related changes in probabilities of volunteering (top panel) and informal helping (bottom panel) for each 10-year cohort over the observation period (1998–2018). The plots are based on coefficients from the multivariate model that adjusted for gender, race/ethnicity, survey
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in Integrating Space With Place in Health Research: A Multilevel Spatial Investigation Using Child Mortality in 1880 Newark, New Jersey
> Demography
Published: 25 April 2014
Fig. 7 Comparison of deviance information criterion (DIC) values between multilevel and multilevel spatial models using different neighborhood-level measures
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 261–274.
Published: 01 May 1991
... for states in the United States. We find that in most instances there is a linear or nearly linear relationship between forecast accuracy and the length of the forecast horizon, but no consistent relationship between bias and the length of the horizon. We believe that these results provide useful information...
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