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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 86–92.
Published: 01 March 1968
... The purpose of this study is to evaluate and adjust the data so far collected on births and deaths from all the compulsory registration areas in Ghana. The analysis shows that there is incomplete registration of births and that the extent of underenumeration affects both males and females by a proportion...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 321–347.
Published: 01 February 2022
... ranges that may not start at zero and/or may not end at 5. This allows users to estimate the model's parameters on the basis of indicators within the 0–5 age range that may be less affected by underreporting issues. We illustrate this type of application using vital registration data from Jordan...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Mark S. Handcock; Sami M. Huovilainen; Michael S. Rendall Abstract With the widespread availability of event-history data, demographers have increasingly eschewed registration-system data in favor of survey data. We propose instead using survey and registration-system data in combination, via...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 212–225.
Published: 01 March 1968
... completa, que esperamos eete disponible para 1968, van a ser de gran utilidad para mejorar nuestro conocimiento de los patrones de espaciamiento de ninos. Summary The downward trend in annual birth rates in the United States since 1957, as shown by birth registration data, has been interpreted by some...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 374–387.
Published: 01 March 1967
... vital statistics system. Exploratory studies to measure completeness of civil registration are being done now in an effort to develop means of using civil registration data alone for measurement of vital rates. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1967 1967 Resumen El esquema...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1996
... for completeness of registration, we adjusted upward the national infant and child mortality rates from registration data, giving values of 73 per 1,000 for infant mortality and 99 for 5 q 0 for the period 1987–1990. These values are approximately 20% above the corresponding direct estimates from the PAPCHILD...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 363–373.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., for the degree of industrialization in urbanareas is rarely taken into account. Two hypotheses are tested based upon Mexican census and vital registration data for 1940–60: (a) urban fertility is inversely related to the proportion of the urban population employed in the secondary sector of the economy and (b...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 335–348.
Published: 01 August 1981
... to the previous marital statuses of spouse and bride or groom. Remarriage rates by sex and previous marital status are estimated using vital registration data in combination with census information; there are 47 countries that have such data. The results of the analyses indicate that there are a number of general...
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 513–533.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Renbao Chen; S. Philip Morgan Abstract We use vital registration data published since 1979 to update trends in the timing of first births. Two important trends are documented. First, the likelihood that childless women over age 30 will have a first birth has increased since the 1970s. This change...
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 311–331.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Michael R. Haines Abstract Given the lack of information on mortality in the nineteenth century United States, it seems appropriate to apply techniques which have been created for mortality estimation for developing nations with inadequate vital registration data, to the historical American...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 460–474.
Published: 01 March 1968
... statistics in the United States: marriage registration from the National Center for Health Statistics, retrospective data from censuses and surveys conducted by the United States Bureau of the Census, and indirect estimates from current marital status. None of these data are in agreement...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Beryl Nicholson Abstract Comparison of Norwegian “linked” decennial census data with statistics compiled from 10 years’ migration registrations showed that the amount of movement omitted by census data was considerable. This hidden movement was of a similar order at every administrative level...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Douglas Lee Eckberg Abstract Bureau of the Census death registration records, as reported in Mortality Statistics , are a primary source for early twentieth-century U.S. homicide statistics. Those data appear to show a massive rise in homicide during the first decade of the century...
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Published: 27 May 2011
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Published: 27 May 2011
Fig. 1 Probability of dying between ages 20 and 60 ( 40 q 20 ) by sex and ethnicity, Kyrgyzstan, 1959–1999. Rus/Ukr = Russians and Ukrainians combined; Kyr/Uzb = Kyrgyz and Uzbeks combined. Data are from authors’ calculations based on national census and vital registration data More
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Published: 27 May 2011
Fig. 2 Probability of dying between ages 20 and 60 ( 40 q 20 ) by sex and ethnicity, Kyrgyzstan, 1959–1999, Urban areas. Rus/Ukr = Russians and Ukrainians combined; Kyr/Uzb = Kyrgyz and Uzbeks combined. Data are from authors’ calculations based on national census and vital registration data More
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 262–272.
Published: 01 March 1967
...) they do not allocate all immigrants to year of entry. Alien registration and passenger data offer possible alternative estimates. The paper attempts to measure unrecorded immigration, discusses how net arrivals of citizens from abroad and from Puerto Rico may be estimated, and how the age, sex, and race...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 727–739.
Published: 01 November 2003
... in the number of centenarians in all highly developed countries in the latter half of the twentieth century (Allard et al. 1996; Vaupel 2001; Vaupel and Jeune 1995). The most reliable data on the centenarian population are for European countries, where a long history of population registration and vital records...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1363–1388.
Published: 05 July 2018
... techniques, such as Death Distribution Methods, and from field audits by public health experts. We test the model on small-area data from Brazil. Incorporating external estimates of vital registration coverage though priors improves small-area mortality estimates by accounting for underregistration...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 626–640.
Published: 01 June 1967
... are strictly personal and are not necessarily those and the registration data on fertility, has of the United Nations. 626 already been described in an earlier report which will be referred to here as Report 1.1 It was shown in Report I that a high de- gree of completeness of birth registration in Bombay...