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... for age, number of living children, and caste, the difference narroued down considerably; and, while the widow remarriage percentage was 34-.2 in Saharanpur, it was found to be33.4 in Rohtak and 31.1 in M athura. A 3 percent lower figure for M athura district could bea result of the Brahminic influence...

..., and landholding did not show consistent relationships with adoption. Possible reasons for this outcome are discussed. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1968 1968 Family Planning Percent Number Practice Family Planning Percent Number Percent Number Limit Family Size...

... 17.7 of the immigrants of the last decade, a number higher than that of immigrants over 40 years old (14.7 percent). 356 DEMOGRAPHY The features mentioned, particularly the concentration in the young-adult ages, are more niarked in immigrants from small nuclei and from the rural area. Table 2 shows...

...; (2) number failure; (3) at least one timing failure; (4) at least one timing success; (5) neither success nor failure. For the ever-pregnant women who intended no more children, 32 percent of the exposed were number failures and 62 percent of the rest were timing failures. For the ever-pregnant women...

...; 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 of the numbers and characteristics of married-couple fam- ilies with step, adopted, and biological children. Families with stepchildren...

... distribution that is uniquely implied by a given life table and a set of age-specific rates of growth obtained from two censuses. When we use the official Soviet life tables in this procedure, we find that the reported number of centenarians is at least 28.9 percent overstated for males and 7.5 percent...

... the husband’s first interview desires and the interval between marriage and second birth. Yet in spite of the relatively high correlation between desires and achievement, only 41 percent of these women achieved exactly the number of children they desired at the first interview, while 14 percent had two children...

.... In the state, excluding Philadelphia, about 3 out of 4 mixed marriages involve nonwhite males; in Philadelphia, the figure is 52 percent. To some extent nonresidents seem to be attracted to Philadelphia for their intermarriages; but, on the other hand, a considerable number of the 84 percent who are residents...

... somewhat more children than those in the 1964 study (Table 5), but larger proportions of them want still more children. Even so, the "ideal" number of chil- dren in the 1965 sample is but 0.2 of a point, or 5 percent, higher than the 3.8 children per woman reported as the "ideal" in 1964 (Table 9). In both...

... to nonmetropolitan areas, in contrast to net out-migration of 350,000 persons from these areas in 1965–1970. Reversal was caused by a 12 percent decrease in the number of nonmetropolitan out-migrants and a 23 percent increase in the number of SMSA residents moving to nonmetropolitan territory over 1965–1970 levels...

...) and the percent in the secondary sector is low and positive. In 1960, however, the association is negative (suggesting a possible change in the direction of the association), but city growth rates and the proportion of females married are more closely related to fertility than percent in the secondary sector...

... mortality, according to models West, North, East, and South and according to the United Nations models at intervals of 5 years by the component method. And, by comparing the numbers of males and females in each age group, the total population, the estimated birth and death rates, the proportional...

... restricted types of survey design had been used. Results, based on the period between Rounds 1 and 2, led to three major conclusions. First, if vital data had been collected with a single-round retrospective procedure, gross error (over enumeration plus underenumeration) would have been 17 percent for births...

... households to ensure a reliablees- timate. Appendix Table A. 1 presents the results of computation of estimates of 349 total Korean households, their standard deviations and coefficients of variation, for selected values of the number of Kim households, with a 95 percent confi- dence interval, using...

... planning practice are the strongest predictors of fertility and account for about 10 percent and 7 percent of the total variance, respectively. Other factors which accounted for lesser fractions of variability are ideal number of children, rural versus urban residence, education, aspiration for daughters...

... invariant with respect to the age-pattern of fertility used. The statement that the United States stable equivalent increased by 11 percent between 1960 and 1965 holds irrespective of whether the 1960 or the 1965 age-specific fertility and mortality rates are used as standard. DEMOGRAPHY Volume 6, Number 3...

... by as much as 5 to 10 percent for one year. A number of other factors were examined that might explain non-retention. The objective variables that were examined in this experience, such as age, previous contraception, and husband's illiteracy, were on the whole rather poor predictors of IUD retention...

... one year in a village varies from a low of 2.7 percent of those who took supplies at least once in one village to a high of 15.5 percent in another. There are, seemingly, a large number of dropouts. Two of the three pilot programs pre- viously discussed had been in progress for about six months when...

...), in an evalua- tion of eight small area projection tech- niques, found mean percentage errors of over 10 percent for all methods and errors of over 25 percent for even the most accurate methods for the most rap- idly growing and smallest townships. In light of these factors, a number of recent discussions...

... percentages adds to exactly 100 percent is certain for two categories, about three-fourths for three categories, about two-thirds for four categories, and about v67c~ for larger numbers of categories, c, on the average when categories are not im- probable. SUMS OF ROUNDED PERCENTAGES In tabulating percentages...