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Sample Registration in Gujarat, India

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D. C. Mehta
Demography (1969) 6 (4): 403–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060085
Published: 01 November 1969
...D. C. Mehta Abstract Since October, 1965, births and deaths in rural Gujarat State, India, have been recorded under two independent systems in a random sample of units. First, a part-time local “registrar” is appointed in each sample unit (village or segment thereof) who: prepares a house list...
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Fertility decline in puerto rico: Extent and causes

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José L. Vazquez
Demography (1968) 5 (2): 855–865.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060276
Published: 01 June 1968
...José L. Vazquez 15 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1968 1968 Fertility Decline Family Planning Program Marital Fertility Local Registrar Crude Birth Rate References 1 José L. Vazquez, “The Demographic Evolution of Puerto Rico” (unpublished doctoral...
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Sample registration in India

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H. Bradley Wells, B. L. Agrawal
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 374–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060377
Published: 01 March 1967
...; mapping; recruiting, ap- pointment, and payment of local part- time staff; maintaining control of the receipt of returns; editing and inquiring for missing data or late returns; and pre- paring reports for submission to the Registrar General. Additional full-time staff have been authorized for direct...
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Field experience in estimating population growth

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Patience Lauriat
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 228–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060364
Published: 01 March 1967
... six months relating to events over the last year and permanent, resident (local) registrars conduct complete monthly can- vasses to record all changes in household composition due to births, deaths, and migration. The Pakistan study provides for quarterly enumerations with a refer- ence period...
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Model life tables: An empirical test of their applicability to less developed countries

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Arjun Adlakha
Demography (1972) 9 (4): 589–601.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060667
Published: 01 November 1972
... of the survey are available elsewhere (Heperkan and Rumford, 1969; Chanlett, 1971) and hence are not elaborated here. It is suf- ficient to say here that the T.D.S. is a combination of household survey and registration systems. The data collection uses two agencies: one employs a local registrar who makes...
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Some recent vital rates and trends in the Philippines: Estimates and evaluation

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Francis C. Madigan
Demography (1965) 2 (1): 309–316.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060121
Published: 01 March 1965
... of Health esti- births and deaths. In 1956, only 76 per- mate was one of only 35 births per 1,000, cent of the local registrars filed reports while demographers generally believed with the Registrar General, and only 88 that the true rate for that year was close percent did so in 1960. Furthermore, an to 50...
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Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States

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Katherine Eriksson, Gregory T. Niemesh, Melissa Thomasson
Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0723-2
Published: 02 November 2018
... of how after finding a 100 % registration rate from names provided by a postmaster, he came to find that the postmaster received the list directly from the local registrar. Later evidence showed the sources used to create the list of children—death registrations, hospital births, and newspaper...
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Education and gender bias in the sex ratio at birth: Evidence from India

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Rebeca A. Echávarri, Roberto Ezcurra
Demography (2010) 47 (1): 249–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0089
Published: 01 February 2010
... Preference and Sex Composition of Children: Evidence From India . Demography , 37 , 95 – 108 . 10.2307/2648099 Cleveland W.S. ( 1979 ). Robust Locally Weighted Regression and Smoothing Scatterplots . Journal of the American Statistical Association , 74 , 829 – 36 . 10.2307/2286407...
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Infant mortality by Father’s occupation from the 1911 Census of England and Wales

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Patricia A. Watterson
Demography (1988) 25 (2): 289–306.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061295
Published: 01 May 1988
... these and other questions, using the approaches outlined above. Notes I The sources for death rates by single years of age are, for 1838-1870, Annual Reportof RegistarGeneralIS70 (Registrar General of England and Wales, 1870); 1870-1908, Reportof the Medical Officer of Health to the Local Government Board...
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New evidence on the fertility transition in Ireland 1880–1911

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Cormac Ó Gráda
Demography (1991) 28 (4): 535–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061421
Published: 01 November 1991
... and applying the measure to three specially constructed local data sets. Demography, Vol. 28, No.4, November 1991 New Evidence on the Fertility Transition in Ireland 1880-1911* Cormac o Grada Department of Economics University College Dublin 4 Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based...
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Revisiting the Fertility Transition in England and Wales: The Role of Social Class and Migration

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Hannaliis Jaadla, Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Kevin Schürer, Joseph Day
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1543–1569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00895-3
Published: 01 July 2020
... by different social groups; however, these findings were generally reported at a broad geographical level, disguising local variation and complicated by residential segregation along social class and occupational lines. Our findings confirm a clear pattern of widening social class differences in recent net...
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The decline in mortality in British Guiana, 1911-1960

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Jay R. Mandle
Demography (1970) 7 (3): 301–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060149
Published: 01 August 1970
... Bronchitis References ARRG. Various years. Annual Report of the Registrar General, British Guiana. ARSG. Various years. Annual Report of the Surgeon General, British Guiana. Arriaga , Eduardo E. , & Davis , Kingsley ( 1969 ). The pattern of mortality change in Latin America...
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Within family planning—Korea

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John A. Ross, III, Oliver D. Finnigan
Demography (1968) 5 (2): 679–689.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060258
Published: 01 June 1968
... the integration phase began; local birth registrars, village chiefs, midwives, and others who already work in the communities have not pro- vided lists of eligible couples or contacted potential acceptors; and until the summer of 1968 no attempt was made to organize mothers' clubs in rural communities na...
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Levels and Patterns of Infant and Child Mortality in Ghana

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S. K. Gaisie
Demography (1975) 12 (1): 21–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060730
Published: 01 February 1975
... the previous twelve months; and (iv) reasons for joining or leaving the household (Gaisie, 1973, p. 307ff). Ninety-two primary and middle school teachers and headteachers who resided in or near the sample areas were re- cruited and trained as registrars of births and deaths. They were charged...
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Estimation of period-specific gross migration flows from limited data: Bi-proportional adjustment approach

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P. S. Nair
Demography (1985) 22 (1): 133–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060992
Published: 01 February 1985
... : Office of the Registrar General . De Jong P. M. ( 1982 ). The prediction of gross migration ttows from net migration . NIDI : Voorburg, The Netherlands . Goodman L. A. ( 1975 ). Analyzing qualitative/categorical data. Cambridge . Mass. : Abt Associates . Kosinski L...
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Retrospective and subsequent metropolitan residential mobility

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Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Georges Sabagh, Edgar W. Butler
Demography (1968) 5 (1): 249–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03208575
Published: 01 March 1968
... Population Registrar . American Sociological Review , XIX , 536 – 41 . 11 Bogue , Donald J. ( 1959 ). Internal Migration . In Philip M. , Hauser , & Otis D. , Duncan (Eds.), The Study of Population (pp. 505 – 505 ). Chicago : University of Chicago Press . 12 P. K...
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Study of age misstatement among young children in Ghana

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John C. Caldwell
Demography (1966) 3 (2): 477–490.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060173
Published: 01 June 1966
... and should at the end of the year be sent to the Registrar-Gen- eral's department in Accra. Often, how- ever, several registers accumulate at the local offices, and anyone wishing to work on several years' registrations must work both there and in Accra. The survey had several aims, but its primary purpose...
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Age Misstatement for Young Children in Rural Bangladesh

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R. Bairagi, K. M. A. Aziz, M. K. Chowdhury, B. Edmonston
Demography (1982) 19 (4): 447–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061012
Published: 01 November 1982
..., D.C. : National Research Council . Ghosh A. ( 1967 ). Demographic Trends in West Bengali During 1901–1950 . New Delhi, India : Office of the Registrar General . Gurney J. M. ( 1969 ). Field Experience in Abeokuta, Nigeria, with Special Reference to Differentiating Protein...
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Differences in Child Health Across Rural, Urban, and Slum Areas: Evidence From India

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Claus C. Pörtner, Yu-hsuan Su
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 223–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0634-7
Published: 30 November 2017
.... The census divided slums into three categories: “(i) all specified areas in a town or city notified as ‘Slum’ by State/Local Government and UT Administration under any Act including a ‘Slum Act’; (ii) all areas recognized as ‘Slum’ by State/Local Government and UT Administration, Housing and Slum Boards...
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Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India

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Diane Coffey, Ashwini Deshpande, Jeffrey Hammer, Dean Spears
Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00794-2
Published: 15 July 2019
... of wide heterogeneity in the degree of local segregation or integration among caste groups. Building on a literature that identifies discrimination by quantifying whether differences in socioeconomic status (SES) can account for differences in health, we decompose height differences between rural children...
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