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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 323–333.
Published: 01 August 1998
... Difference Senior High School National Minority Occupational Attainment Occupational Distribution References Aguignier , P. ( 1988 ). Regional Disparities Since 1978 . In S. Feuchtwang , A. Hussein , & T. Pairault (Eds.), Transforming China’s Economy...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 731–760.
Published: 01 June 2023
... are both gender and sexual minorities. Using Gallup's National Health and Well-Being Index ( N = 93,144) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ( N = 543,717), we estimate multivariable logistic regression models to examine how sexual and gender...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1267–1282.
Published: 01 October 2024
... descriptive information for the analytic sample. Gender minorities represent about 0.5% of the sample, a finding in line with other national estimates ( Flores et al. 2016 ; Meerwijk and Sevelius 2017 ). Transgender men make up 0.17% of the sample, transgender women 0.20%, and gender-nonconforming people...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1257–1282.
Published: 01 August 2023
... on an aspect of sexuality typically unobservable in population research. This rapidly expanding data landscape has enabled a new generation of research on the size and characteristics of sexual minority populations ( National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2020 ). However, because large...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 879–899.
Published: 01 June 2024
... for men. Further, formation of both same- and different-sex dating relationships, common among sexual minority young adults, may also extend to cohabitation and marriage. We used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to predict the timing of a first romantic union, defined...
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 103–125.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., sex, and race) and network measures for structural processes operating on individual, dyadic, and triadic levels. We apply the methods to adolescent friendship networks in 59 U.S. schools from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We model friendship formation...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 461–466.
Published: 01 November 2000
... for such case studies. The first national studies of hazardous waste sites (GAO 1983; UCC 1987) found evidence of inequity. These results, however, were challenged by subsequent research that con- trolled for confounding urban-rural differences in minority residence and used more refined geographic areas...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1541–1569.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Hatzenbuehler M. L. , McLaughlin K. A. , & Xuan Z. ( 2012 ). Social networks and risk for depressive symptoms in a national sample of sexual minority youth . Social Science & Medicine , 75 , 1184 – 1191 . Herek G. M. ( 2009 ). Hate crimes and stigma-related experiences...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1933–1953.
Published: 24 October 2016
...Wenquan Zhang; John R. Logan Abstract Neighborhoods where blacks and whites live in integrated settings alongside Hispanics and Asians represent a new phenomenon in the United States. These “global neighborhoods” have previously been identified in the nation’s most diverse metropolitan centers...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 809–819.
Published: 01 June 1967
.... First, the data show that the Japanese-American population has increased in all regions of the nation, especially in the representative West (from 71 percent in 1950 to 82 percent in 1960). Second, educational attainment, which was about equal to that of whites in 1950, was better for males...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 135–164.
Published: 18 December 2017
... birth cohorts with cross-national variation, which provides a benchmark against which temporal change may be evaluated. The results demonstrate that family trajectories have indeed become more differentiated but that change over time is minor compared with substantial cross-national variation. Further...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 267–277.
Published: 01 May 1989
... dates. Families were then classified by the types of children present. A large majority (79 percent) had only biological children; however, a significant minority (16 percent) had at least one stepchild and 4 percent had at least one adopted child. This analysis provides national estimates...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1421–1447.
Published: 11 April 2013
... National Survey of Family Growth and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to examine the antecedents of nonmarital fatherhood, as compared to marital fatherhood. Overall, we find the strongest support across both data sets for education and race/ethnicity as key predictors of having...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 405–427.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., currently the most often used demographic forecasting techniques for subcounty areas, cannot meet the demand. This study tests a knowledge-based regression approach, which has been successfully used for forecasts at the national level, for subcounty population forecasting. In particular, this study applies...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 245–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
... sabotage of the programs. This paper examines the changes in educational attainment between various social groups for a period of nearly 20 years to see whether educational inequalities have declined over time. We use data from a large national sample survey of over 100,000 households for each of the four...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 669–685.
Published: 01 August 2007
... models. Data were drawn from four sources: John Hart’s Severe Plot v2.0, National Weather Service (NWS) Warning Verification data, Storm Prediction Center (SPC) watch data, and tract-level census data. Negative binomial regression was used to analyze the causes of tornado fatalities and injuries...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 229–248.
Published: 01 May 1994
... for treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes (TSDFs) are located disproportionately in minority areas. In the first comprehensive study of TSDFs to use census tract-level data, we find no nationally consistent and statistically significant differences between the racial or ethnic composition...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 August 1982
... of subsequent fertility. If race differences in the pace of fertility persist net of age at first birth and socioeconomic variables, they will be taken as new support for the minority group status hypothesis. Data from the 1973 National Survey of Family Growth are analyzed with the finding that race differences...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 293–301.
Published: 01 May 1991
.... This expectation is fulfilled for most of China, but severe misreporting of age is found in a province that contains a large minority of a non-Han nationality, which lacks precise knowledge of date of birth. Although the province contains only 1.3% of China’s population, male death rates above age 90 for all...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 635–643.
Published: 01 November 1981
... the CBR as a proxy has minor and unimportant effects upon conclusions regarding fertility determinants. Can the crude birth rate (CBR) be used as a proxy for a more refined fertility measure such as the total fertility rate (TFR)? Many cross-national fertility arl- alysts have assumed that it can and have...
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