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Constructing increment-decrement life tables
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 313–324.
Published: 01 May 1975
... of increment-decrement tables. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Life Table Linear Method Vital Rate Algebraic Solution Life Table Model An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2060838 . References Depoid Pierre...
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Statistical Security for Social Security
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1037–1060.
Published: 17 May 2012
..., which was a combination of linear extrapolation and qualitative judgments. Unfortunately, linear extrapolation excludes known risk factors and is inconsistent with long-standing demographic patterns, such as the smoothness of age profiles. Modern statistical methods typically outperform even the best...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 721–743.
Published: 09 March 2017
...Maarten J. Bijlsma; Rhian M. Daniel; Fanny Janssen; Bianca L. De Stavola Abstract Many methods have been proposed to solve the age-period-cohort (APC) linear identification problem, but most are not theoretically informed and may lead to biased estimators of APC effects. One exception...
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View articletitled, An Assessment and Extension of the Mechanism-Based Approach to the Identification of Age-Period-Cohort Models
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A new method for estimating the level of natural fertility in populations practicing birth control
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 525–536.
Published: 01 November 1971
... the nonlinear and linear models yield an estimate of .843 as the ratio between Amish and Hutterite natural fertility schedules. DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 4 November 1971 A NEW METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE LEVEL OF NATURAL FERTILITY IN POPULATIONS PRACTICING BIRTH CONTROL Thomas J. Espenshade International...
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Bounding Analyses of Age-Period-Cohort Effects
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1975–2004.
Published: 28 August 2019
...Ethan Fosse; Christopher Winship Abstract For more than a century, researchers from a wide range of disciplines have sought to estimate the unique contributions of age, period, and cohort (APC) effects on a variety of outcomes. A key obstacle to these efforts is the linear dependence among...
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Binary Outcomes and Endogenous Explanatory Variables: Tests and Solutions with an Application to the Demand for Contraceptive Use in Tunisia
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 February 1995
... factors that determine the discrete outcome under examination. In linear models, the standard solution to this potential endogeneity bias is an estimator such as two-stage least squares. These methods have been extended to models with limited dependent variables, but there is little information...
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Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data: Example of the Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... derived. We present a method of estimating appropriate weights for couples that extends methods currently used in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for individual weights. To see how results vary, we analyze 1912 estimates (means; proportions; linear regression; and simple and multinomial logistic...
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Probabilistic Forecasting Using Stochastic Diffusion Models, With Applications to Cohort Processes of Marriage and Fertility
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 237–260.
Published: 27 October 2012
... and forecast utility are improved by introducing randomness and uncertainty into the standard differential equations governing population processes. Our approach is to add time-series stochasticity to linearized versions of each process. We derive both Monte Carlo and analytic methods for estimating forecast...
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A new technique to estimate infant mortality with an application for El Salvador and Colombia
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 455–473.
Published: 01 August 1979
... mortality for Colombia and EI Salvador for the years 1950-1970. These estimates are obtained by using a technique which improves on Brass's method in that it suppresses the as- sumption of constant mortality and introduces instead assumptions about linear and nonlinear changes in mortality risks affecting...
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The precision of population projections studied by multiple prediction methods
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 441–450.
Published: 01 November 1971
... vector is the basis of a great variety of partial predictions. If the covariance matrix is estimated in a reasonable model, for instance in Sykes' (1969) model 3, then the multiple characterization method applies and prediction-regions for all linear combinations of components of the population vector...
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Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 115–132.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Deon Filmer; Lant H. Pritchett Abstract Using data from India, we estimate the relationship between household wealth and children’s school enrollment. We proxy wealth by constructing a linear index from asset ownership indicators, using principal-components analysis to derive weights. In Indian...
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Hutterite fecundability by age and parity: Strategies for frailty modeling of event histories
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Demography (1993) 30 (1): 81–102.
Published: 01 February 1993
.... In addition, hazards rather than probabilities are modeled, piecewise linear hazard functions are used, and age and parity effects are decomposed systematically. These methods permit the development of more elaborate models of changing fecundability and of heterogeneity in postpartum amenorrhea. 16 1...
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Educational assortative mating and economic inequality: A comparative analysis of three Latin American countries
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 481–502.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Florencia Torche Abstract Educational assortative mating and economic inequality are likely to be endogenously determined, but very little research exists on their empirical association. Using census data and log-linear and log-multiplicative methods, I compare the patterns of educational...
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Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 1945–1967.
Published: 26 September 2013
... the constrained generalized linear model (CGLM), a coefficient-constrained approach that has been used as a conventional method for APC analysis. This method places at least one identifying restriction on the parameter vector b in Eq. ( 2 ). For example, the effects of the first two age groups, periods...
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Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 02 November 2018
... that the largest adjustments occur in states with less-complete birth registration systems. An additional advantage of our census-based estimation method is the extension backward of the birth and infant mortality series for years prior to published estimates of registered births, enabling previously impossible...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1723–1746.
Published: 09 September 2019
... et al. 2004 ). Yet, the estimates may vary widely according to the constraints, regardless of whether it is chosen by the user, making the choice of any method ultimately arbitrary. If there is no unique, statistically optimal solution to partitioning the long-term linear trends in APC models...
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View articletitled, Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016
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Exposure to Armed Conflict and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2113–2141.
Published: 16 October 2020
...*** –0.4396*** (0.0285) (0.0183) (0.0199) Province Fixed Effects Yes Yes Yes Region-Specific Linear Time Trend Yes Yes Yes Pseudo- R 2 .1027 .2934 .1784 Notes: Standard errors are clustered on DHS communities. Contraceptive use is defined to include only modern methods. ** p...
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Calculating life tables by estimating Chiang’s a from observed rates
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 625–635.
Published: 01 November 1978
... 1, the simple exponential method of equa- tion (4), the Reed-Merrill method of equa- tion (6), the Keyfitz-Frauenthal method of equation (7), the linear method of equa- tion (13), and the "weighted exponential" method of equation (2Ia) are compared with respect to the standard values. To show...
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A Simple method for estimating age-specific rates from sequential cross sections
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 287–310.
Published: 01 May 2002
... in simple spreadsheets. The article includes a formal mathematical exposition of the method, simulation tests, and several examples. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2002 2002 Versus Versus Versus Versus Differential Mortality Fertility Schedule Linear Approximation Method...
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Place, race and differential occupational opportunities
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 259–270.
Published: 01 May 1984
... imposes the con- straint PI = P: = P (Bishop et aI., 1975; Goodman, 1972). The log-linear method may be more readily generalized to models including additional variables. Consider, for exam- ple, the cross-classification of race by occupation by city. The saturated log- linear model...
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