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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 565–573.
Published: 01 November 1979
... in a community having different size or location characteristics than their present residence are five times more likely to intend to move than those who have attained their preferred type of residence. Within these two groups, however, the particular configuration of current and preferred residence has...
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Sean-Shong Hwang; Don E. Albrecht Abstract A 1983 survey of Texas homebuyers reveals a high degree of mismatch between their preferred and actual residences. Analysis indicates that the logit of fulfilling residential preference is largely determined by the type of area preferred and the occupation...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1069–1090.
Published: 09 May 2018
... neighborhood deprivation and earnings. We model neighborhood selection using a conditional logit model, from which we derive correction terms. Driven by the recognition that most households prefer certain types of neighborhoods rather than specific areas, we employ a principle components analysis to reduce...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1994
... for their children’s fertility. Although both types of maternal preferences influence children’s childbearing preferences, mothers’ preferences for their children’s behavior have the stronger and more proximate effects. Mothers’ preferences continue to influence their children’s preferences through early adulthood...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 749–782.
Published: 20 April 2011
... intervention group, both credit and family planning services were provided and the credit officers also provided information on family planning. Only credit or family planning services, but not both, were provided in the other two intervention groups, while areas in the control group received neither type...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 295–320.
Published: 01 February 2021
... intentions. The effectiveness of the type of contraceptive method chosen significantly lowered discontinuation risk. Fertility preferences were not significantly associated with either time to adoption or discontinuation. The pace of the fertility transition in this sub-Saharan African setting is likely...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 388–396.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., definitive comparisons of expectations with performance would seem to require longitudinal studies of the same women rather than periodic studies of the same types of women. On the other hand, the latter type of design doubtless is preferable for other purposes. Besides the yield of new data on fertility...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 651–662.
Published: 01 November 1994
... an impact: those whose first child is in a less preferred situation are less likely to have a second. Variables measuring the need for and type of child care are found to have greater consequences for fertility than do usual measures of socioeconomic status. 12 1 2011 © Population Association...
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Demography (1980) 17 (3): 297–322.
Published: 01 August 1980
... the January 1972 and January 1973 Current Population Surveys, two types of labor force status life tables were calculated for the United States, 1972. One type was a conventional working life table (for males) which started with an ordinary life table and partitioned the life table population into labor force...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 May 2002
... find evidence of a wartime drop and a postwar rebound in fertility, but these trends vary greatly, depending on the type and degree of exposure to war and on women’s socioeconomic characteristics. At the same time, variations by parity are nonsignificant. In fertility preferences, the relative...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 307–314.
Published: 01 May 1988
...John G. Haaga Abstract This article examines retest reliability and digit preference in retrospective survey data on breastfeeding duration and type of supplementary food, covering three decades and reported by more than 1200 Malaysian women. Women with little or no education, rural residents...
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 447–458.
Published: 01 November 1982
... in and out of specific age categories. This type of sys- tematic age misstatement frequently dis- torts age distributions in population cen- suses-making various stable population techniques difficult-and sample survey data. Systematic age preferences can couple with constant age biases to markedly distort...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 205–220.
Published: 01 May 1988
... and the type of child care chosen by working women, although they affect these two decisions in different ways. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1988 1988 Child Care Nursery School Child Care Arrangement Unpaid Care Weekly Wage References Berk , L. ( 1985...
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 349–360.
Published: 01 August 1970
...H. Majumdar; Mindel C. Sheps Abstract In order to study distributions of fecundability, Potter and Parker fitted a Pearson Type I geometric distribution (with parameters a and b ) to data from the Princeton Fertility Study. They, and subsequently other authors, estimated a and b from the observed...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1693–1715.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at risk of divorce—namely, black women with lower levels of education and who were younger—midpregnancy marriages had the same or lower likelihood of divorce as preconception marriages. Our results suggest an overlooked resiliency in a type of marriage that has only increased in salience. 14 9 2016...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 165–188.
Published: 01 December 2015
... outcomes between different types of couples driven by variations in economic resources, other sociodemographic characteristics, and opportunity structures presented by the broader metropolitan area? A third proposition is that mixed-race couples simply have stronger preferences for neighborhood...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1961–1993.
Published: 21 October 2015
... of a relative limited amount or type of work they could perform 0: No health limitations 1: Reports health limitations 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 Attitudes and Preferences Work expectations Categorical Distribution of the proportion of times they expressed a work...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
... is not random in India, and the literature typically does not adequately control for the passive son-preferring fertility behaviors—which we call implicit discrimination —that sort girls into different types of families and at earlier parities within families. For example, son-preferring fertility-stopping...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
... are more likely to live with siblings. She concluded that this indicates racial/ethnic preference of certain household types, given identical situational imperatives (p. 226). Other research suggests that the tendency for coresidence becomes accentuated during times of economic hardship (Angel and Tienda...
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Demography (1975) 12 (3): 491–504.
Published: 01 August 1975
... Preferences and Population Distribution 495 TABLE 2.-Actual and Preferred Residence of Respondents by Size of Place and Location with Respect to a Large City, United States, 1972 Current Preferred Type of Location Residence Residencea City over 500,000 20% 9% City 50,000 - 500,000 24 16 Subtotal 44 25 Within...
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