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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 35–55.
Published: 01 February 1975
...). But mortality by age 20 (in Geneva) is associated strongly with the epoch, type of family, and family size, and not significantly with birth order. The increase in mortality with completed family size is insufficient to select, in an evolutionary sense, for limited family size. 8 1 2011 © Population...
View articletitled, Childhood Mortality, <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">Size</span> and Birth Order in Pre-Industrial Europe
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 188–203.
Published: 01 March 1966
... control be available but there must be a desire to limit family size. Such a desire may be linked to opportunities for social mobility. Negroes have not been assimilated into urban society as previous in-migrant groups were, and opportunities for mobility have been restricted. For these reasons Negroes...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 February 2002
... from Latin America. The results show that in all six countries, the use of contraceptives and MCH care are significantly associated, independent of intervening factors; this finding suggests that families develop a joint demand for better-quality health and limited family size and translate...
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 479–493.
Published: 01 November 1976
... is the most prominent motivation for contraceptive practice, more important than the limitation of family size. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Birth Control Family Size Birth Interval Contraceptive Practice Marital Fertility References Akingba , J. B...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 267–296.
Published: 22 January 2020
... and total fertility that have been standardized fully for age, parity, and interval duration. It also examines parity-specific trends in the proportion of women who want no more children. Outside sub-Saharan Africa, fertility transition was dominated by parity-specific family size limitation...
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View articletitled, Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of <span class="search-highlight">Limitation</span>, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing
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for article titled, Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of <span class="search-highlight">Limitation</span>, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 268–305.
Published: 01 March 1968
...' working against limiting factors. The positive factors comprise (1) a term proportional to the population size, p , for that particular year, and (2) a term equal to the immigrant population, p m′ , for the same year. The limiting factors are all proportional to the square of the present population size...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1509–1533.
Published: 01 October 2024
... for evidence of family limitation in historical data. They found that a twin birth increased the number of children ever born by one child in England, France, and Quebec before 1800. In contrast, a twin birth increased completed family size by much less than one child in populations known to have controlled...
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View articletitled, The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition
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for article titled, The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 February 1975
... through which the respondent states some whole number as representing her family size wishes at some specified period in her life. Limitations of this method have been recognized, and some research has been conducted toward the development of other techniques of measuring desired family size. The purpose...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 487–502.
Published: 01 November 1992
... was a necessary condition for adopting family limitation. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1992 1992 Family Size Birth Interval Demographic Transition Fertility Decline Fertility Transition References Anderton Douglas L. , & Bean Lee L. ( 1985 ). “Birth...
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 101–115.
Published: 01 May 1969
... is quite limited." In particular, Ryder and West- off question the use of survey data on expected family size to make annual pro- jections of fertility. While essentially accepting the conclusion of Ryder and Westoff that survey data have important limitations for population projections, we should like...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 9–18.
Published: 01 February 1984
...- del's (1979) description of fertility de- cline and the advent of deliberate family limitation in several German villages during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Little evidence of increasing average birth intervals, amidst overall declines in family size, was found. If anything, the trend...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 February 2006
... to theory and evidence from many other regions, previous studies in sub-Saharan Africa have found surprisingly weak associations between family size and schooling. It is unclear, however, whether these weak results re ect (spurious) limitations in methodology or (real) differences in con- text. This study...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">size</span> and schooling in sub-Saharan African settings: A reexamination
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 441–450.
Published: 01 November 1971
... and an argument similar to the one leading to Scheffé's method of multiple comparison. From the family of prediction intervals, an upper limit of the total absolute deviation Σ | X iT − e iT | is obtained, and the ratio of this limit to the projected total population is proposed as a measure of the relative...
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 53–60.
Published: 01 February 1970
... in deciding on family size. A survey of 134 adult women living in a limited-income family housing project in a relatively small and isolated American community suggests: the view that continued population growth is a problem in the United States is endorsed more strongly than the view that the couple has...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 827–852.
Published: 04 December 2012
... sizes available. This, again, is limiting given that households with various sizes differ substantially in their needs for products and services. Fourth, the headship rate lumps all household members other than heads into one category—“nonhead”—with no projected information (Burch, personal...
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View articletitled, Household and Living Arrangement Projections at the Subnational Level: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach
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for article titled, Household and Living Arrangement Projections at the Subnational Level: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1743–1772.
Published: 15 August 2017
... the sample size. a Samples are limited to persons who have positive personal income. b Samples are limited to persons who are currently married. As we suggested earlier, an interesting phenomenon that is likely related to women’s greater gains in education is the change in assortative mating...
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View articletitled, Women’s Progress for Men’s Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> Standard of Living, 1990 to 2009–2011
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 23–44.
Published: 28 December 2016
... 2008 ). To the extent that children use the parent of their own sex as a role model, awareness that a large family may limit career opportunities may lead women to limit their family size. Hence, girls from larger sibships may be more aware of the adverse consequences of larger families, both relative...
View articletitled, The Effect of Childhood <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">Size</span> on Fertility in Adulthood: New Evidence From IV Estimation
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for article titled, The Effect of Childhood <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">Size</span> on Fertility in Adulthood: New Evidence From IV Estimation
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 450–461.
Published: 01 June 1966
... as risks of fetal wastage, lengths of pregnancy, and postdelivery amenorrhea conditional to outcome of pregnancy, length of reproductive period, fecundability, desired family size, preferred birth spacing!, and effectiveness of contraception. Use of FERMOD is illustrated in a limited application to United...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 210–217.
Published: 01 March 1967
... force status appear. Although there is a slightly greater tendency for employed than for non-employed women to hold attitudes more favorable to small families and family size limitation, the observed differences are slight and not significant statistically. A typology is constructed wherein the nature...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 613–639.
Published: 17 March 2015
...-time survival analysis using a within-family comparison, and the estimates are adjusted for age, mother’s age at the time of birth, and cohort. Focusing on sibships ranging in size from two to six, we find that mortality risk in adulthood increases with later birth order. The results show...
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View articletitled, Birth Order and Mortality: A Population-Based Cohort Study
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