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Family planning and population control in developing countries
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 211–234.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Harry M. Raulet Abstract This essay aims at a critical analysis of the major assumptions of the family planning movement and their implications for population and development policy in the less developed countries. A neo-Malthusian perspective, in which a reduction of the current high rates...
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The return from investment in population control in less developed countries
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 422–432.
Published: 01 March 1968
... the model is designed to be readily applied. The results of a small simulation study are presented, using the analytical framework along with data for Chile. A hypothetical population control program was imposed on the actual population and production experience of the country in the period 1960–64...
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Trends in the components of population growth in the Arab countries of the middle east: A survey of present information
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 140–186.
Published: 01 March 1965
... statistiques de la Syrie et du Liban , 1945–47, 1948. 89 El-Noss , E. ( 1955 ). Population Conditions in the Arab World . Cairo : Institute of Advanced Arab Studies . 91 D. Yaukey, Fertility Differences in a Modernizing Country (Princeton, 1961). 94 El-Noss , E. ( 1955...
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Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 337–360.
Published: 09 January 2017
... interactions in present-day developing countries in the literature 2 and evidence from present-day developed countries, 3 discussion of the evidence that population density can intensify an epidemiological externality often begins with the history of urbanization in now-rich countries. Much has been...
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Published: 27 September 2018
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Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1675–1688.
Published: 01 December 2023
... models. In this research note, we propose a derivative-based method to decompose the differentials in population-based health expectancies estimated via a multistate model into two main components: the proportion resulting from differences in initial health structure and the proportion resulting from...
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Published: 27 September 2018
Fig. 2 Sources of population change by country or region of birth, 1981–1986 to 2006–2011. The six bars represent data for 1981–1986, 1986–1991, 1991–1996, 1996–2001, 2001–2006, and 2006–2011, respectively
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Published: 27 September 2018
Fig. 6 Model 3 reconciled sources of population change by country or region of birth, 1981–1986 to 2006–2011. The six stack bars of each birthplace are data for 1981–1986, 1986–1991, 1991–1996, 1996–2001, 2001–2006, and 2006–2011, respectively
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Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas With Defective Vital Records
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1363–1388.
Published: 05 July 2018
... and automatically producing measures of uncertainty. Bayesian estimates show that when mortality levels in small areas are compared, noise often dominates signal. Differences in local point estimates of life expectancy are often small relative to uncertainty, even for relatively large areas in a populous country...
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Comment on G. Hendershot’s “Population Size, Military Power, and Antinatal Policy”
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 533–535.
Published: 01 August 1974
...William J. Kelly 8 2 2011 © Population Association of America 1974 1974 Population Size Populous Side Population Policy Populous Country Military Action References Heckscher Eli F. ( 1935 ). Mercantilism; translated by Mendel Shapiro. Vols. I and II . London...
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Including the Smoking Epidemic in Internationally Coherent Mortality Projections
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1341–1362.
Published: 17 January 2013
... of the other 21 sex- and country-specific populations, result in much higher gains for males (6.4) and females (5.7), and convergence. The separate projection of smoking and non-smoking-related mortality produces a steady increase in e 0 for males (4.8) and a nonlinear trend for females, with lower gains in e...
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Projected population by age and sex for China and for the averted populatio...
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in The Astonishing Population Averted by China’s Birth Restrictions: Estimates, Nightmares, and Reprogrammed Ambitions
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Published: 31 July 2017
Fig. 4 Projected population by age and sex for China and for the averted populations (under the 16-country comparator) due to “later, longer, fewer” (1970–1979) and one-child restrictions (1980–2015): 1980, 2020, and 2060
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The evolution of marxist theories of population: Marxism recognizes the population problem
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 158–173.
Published: 01 March 1968
... Unidos tardó muchos años hata llegar a su presente política, y sería poco realista esperar que la Union Soviética canbie más rapidamente. Summary Marxist theories led Soviet writers to view the population problems of less developed countries in rather simplistic terms: Since overpopulation is caused...
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Model life tables: An empirical test of their applicability to less developed countries
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 589–601.
Published: 01 November 1972
...Arjun Adlakha Abstract Model life tables are commonly used for estimating various parameters of mortality of populations in developing countries with limited data. The application of the models is based on the assumption that the agemortality pattern of the population under consideration resembles...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1713–1737.
Published: 01 October 2022
... mortality and unmet need for contraception. However, in many low-income countries, data on population counts and components of population change are limited, and so subnational levels and trends are unclear. We present a Bayesian constrained cohort component model for the estimation and projection...
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View articletitled, A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
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Fertility Decline, Girls’ Well-being, and Gender Gaps in Children’s Well-being in Poor Countries
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 535–561.
Published: 25 March 2014
... of girls will improve faster than that of boys as women’s median age at first birth increases, especially in historically lower-son-preference populations (H3) (Das Gupta and Bhat 1997 ; Das Gupta and Shuzhuo 1999 ). The country was the unit of analysis, and the sample included unequal panels...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 915–937.
Published: 01 June 2023
... uncertainty about future population change. Starting in 2015, however, the United Nations (UN) has produced probabilistic population projections for all countries using a Bayesian approach. There is also considerable interest in subnational probabilistic population projections, but the UN's national approach...
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View articletitled, Probabilistic County-Level <span class="search-highlight">Population</span> Projections
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Migration, fertility, and aging in stable populations
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 641–650.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Juha M. Alho Abstract Fertility is below replacement level in all European countries, and population growth is expected to decline in the coming decades. Increasing life expectancy will accentuate concomitant aging of the population. Migration has been seen as a possible means to decelerate aging...
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Understanding the sex ratio in India: A simulation approach
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 477–488.
Published: 01 November 2000
... Countries . ( 1982 ). New York : United Nations . World Population Prospects. 1994 revision . ( 1995 ). New York : United Nations . The State of the World’s Children . ( 1997 ). New York : United Nations . World Population Prospects . ( 1998 ). 1996 revision New York : United Nations...
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Gradients of metropolitan dominance in turkey: Alternative models
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 February 1972
...Roy C. Treadway Abstract The dominance or influence of metropolitan centers in the developing country of Turkey, as measured by gradients of population characteristics (population density, percent urban, sex ratio, percent over five years of age, and percent literate) by distance from the nearest...
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