Search Results for Isolated illiteracy

...Iñaki Permanyer; Joan García; Albert Esteve Abstract In this article, we explore the impacts that education expansion and increased levels in educational homogamy have had on couples’ isolated illiteracy rates, defined as the proportion of illiterates in union that are married to an illiterate...

... ................................................................2105–2128 Pechansky, Flavio. See Aruna Chandran ..........................................................229–236 Permanyer, Iñaki, Joan García, and Albert Esteve. The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels ...........................2209–2225 Peters, Christina...

... of contacts beyond their im- mediate vicinity and helps to reduce their isolation from communication net- works. These are some of the factors that might be conducive to changes in their behavior, including fertility (Freed- man, 1979; van de Walle and Knodel, 1980). FERTILITY EFFECT OF EDUCATION...

... that this moral- ity can be implanted and implemented as one of the first steps toward modernization- before or during reduction of illiteracy, rural isolation, poverty, and traditional- ism, rather than as one of the later steps after these other changes have taken place. To the many thousands of family plan...

... was only 41% for Anglicans, 45% for Presbyterians, and as low as 4% for Jews. Illiteracy was substantially higher for Catholic and Jewish couples, but higher illiteracy among Jewish couples may reflect a lack of English fluency rather than functional illiteracy. Each of these patterns is consistent...

... poverty threshold by the total number of noninstitutionalized persons for whom poverty status is determined. 6 We estimate two rates: one for the Black population and one for the non-Hispanic White population. 7 In supplemental analyses, we examine illiteracy by race for 1900 to 1930...

.... , García , J. , & Esteve , A. ( 2013 ). The impact of educational homogamy on isolated illiteracy levels . Demography , 50 , 2209 – 2225 . 10.1007/s13524-013-0228-y . Pincus , T. , & Callahan , L. F. ( 1994 ). Associations of low formal education level and poor health...

.... DIFFERENCES IN MEASUREMENT OF EDUCATION Let us first put the magnitudes of differences in education in perspective. Because education levels have increased over time in both Botswana and Zimbabwe, it is not appropriate to compare the education of women of the same age group. Instead, to isolate...

... ). New York : United Nations . Statistics of Educational Attainment and Illiteracy, 1945–1974 . ( 1977 ). Paris : UNESCO . van de Walle E. , & Knodel J. ( 1980 ). Europe’s Fertility Transition: New Evidence and Lessons for Today’s Developing World . Washington, D. C...

... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA , 95 , 4714 – 19 . 10.1073/pnas.95.8.4714 Caspi A. , Harrington H. , Moffitt T.E. , Milne B.J. , & Poulton R. ( 2006 ). Socially Isolated Children 20 Years Later: Risk...

... isolate the effect of an factors other than age from the birth in- tervals and this is not possible in the given situation. For instance, in the Princeton Study (Westoff and others, 1961), it was found that 23 per cent of the variance in the birth interval be- tween marriage and first child could...

... also may have made mothers feel more free to ask questions and may have been particularly useful in isolated communities with a lack of access to medical care and where it was difficult to arrange conferences (U.S. Children’s Bureau 1926a :7). Sheppard-Towner funds were also used to provide...

...-level covariates, we attempt to compare counties that are similar in their observable characteristics (comparing, for example, age- and race-specific shares across counties within a state with comparable marriage markets) in order to isolate the effect of differences in the county’s reliance on tenant...

... most important dimensions of health as indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO 1958). Data on various 8. One may suspect that some of the oldest-old respondents might have received some schooling in adulthood during the national movement of adult illiteracy eradication in the 1950s and 1960s...

... before the experimental family planning programs were mounted. There is added to the other difficulties in such cases the problem of isolating the impact of the action program from secular trend. Finally, it must be stressed that experimental birth control programs are still in their infancy, even...

... of fertility change rather than on the causes of persistent differences in levels. We hope to isolate the component of variance in the sample arising from changes in fertility over time within Kreise (the "within" component of variance); inclusion of regional dummies is a step in this direction. We...

... in many of these indicators between the 1993 1994 and 1999 2000 DHS surveys, rural Bangladeshi women remain characterized by high levels of illiteracy and low levels of socioeconomic development and exposure to mass media (Mitra et al. 1994; National Institute for Population Research and Training, Mitra...

... rate of fosterage in 1910. Black mothers had higher levels of illiteracy, employment, and absent spouses than white mothers. After these factors were accounted for, white mothers were still more than twice as likely to live with all their children than black mothers. Preston et al. ( 1992 ) found...

.... that are still steeped in illiteracy and in pov- erty, and that are predominantly still 'tra- ditional. societies'. Family Planning Program Performance of expected births is particularly diffi- cult, and brings into question attempts to measure births averted: tI since they refer to non-events, statistics...

... the Caucasus and the territory around the Caspian Sea, Soviet ethnolo- gists still encounter isolated mountain tribes who speak only a Caucasian tongue of some Indo-European origin or a Turkic- related dialect. The largest and most ad- vanced of these groups are Aserbaydzhans, Armenians, Chechens, Ingushi...