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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 1965
... del Community and Family Study Center, diseii6 el cuestionario y respectivas instrucciones, organiz6 la tabulaci6n de los datos, colabor6 en el anal isis de los mismos y en Ia preparaci6n de este informe. 97 Tal vez sea menos conocido que este prob- lema tiene dos aspectos: uno rural y otro urbano. En...
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 February 1987
... and Zuiches suggested that the poIls failed to elicit the true residential preferences of the public. They maintained that when respondents indicate a preference to live in smaIl towns or rural areas, they may actually have in mind suburban areas in elose proximity to an urban center rather than the more...
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Demography (1980) 17 (2): 145–158.
Published: 01 May 1980
... Association of America annual meetings, Atlanta. DEMOGRAPHV@ Volume 17, Number 2 May 1980 EMPLOYMENT DECONCENTRATION IN THE NONMETROPOLITAN MIGRATION TURNAROUND John M. Wardwell Center for Social Data Analysis, Montana State University and Departments of Sociology/Rural Sociology, Washington State...
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Demography (1982) 19 (2): 211–221.
Published: 01 May 1982
... of Sociology and Population Issues Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Glenn V. Fuguitt Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Abstract-A major aim of this study is to address our lack of understanding of rural...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 313–331.
Published: 01 August 1983
... with earlier research indicate that the measurement is reason- ably reliable and valid. Residence is measured along a rural- urban continuum in which all townships have been classified according to their affiliation with metropolitan centers. This procedure, developed by Liu and Sun (1979, p. 18), yields...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 115–128.
Published: 01 February 1988
... in partby the College ofAgricultural and LifeSciences, Vniversity ofWisconsin, and the Agricultural and Rural Economy Division, V.S. Department of Agriculture, through a cooperative agreernent; by the Center for Demography and Ecology, Vniversity ofWisconsin, througha grantfrom the Center for Population...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 803–816.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of urbanization itself is strong, evident, and complex, and persists after we control for the effects of age, cohort, union status, and education. Our discrete-time event-history analysis shows that urban women exhibit fertility rates that are, on average, 11% lower than those of rural women, but the effects vary...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 295–308.
Published: 01 May 1972
... as rural, share many characteristics of urban centers. The industry and occupation differences by location, and the interaction between location and growth, strongly suggest that location is tied closely to function here. Places near cities over 25,000, especially those that are growing, may serve...
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Demography 11078239.
Published: 28 November 2023
... of region, race, and ethnicity. We use age-adjusted mortality rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine the rural mortality penalty by region, race, and ethnicity for 1999–2016 ( N = 44,792,050 deaths) and stratify by 2006 National Center for Health Statistics metropolitan...
Includes: Supplementary data
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 627–631.
Published: 01 June 1968
...George F. Brown 15 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1968 1968 Family Planning Contraceptive Method Family Planning Program Family Plan Rural Center References 1 “Projections de la Population, Repercussions sur Certains Aspects de l’Economie du Pays et...
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 13–39.
Published: 01 February 1978
... indicates, as expected, reconcentration of residents from both urban and remoter nonmetropolitan localities into exurban peripheries 25 to 35 miles from metropolitan centers. Since 1960, however, a “turnaround” appears in many truly rural tracts, which have been experiencing an influx or retention...
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 February 1972
... metropolitan center for 1960 and 1965, is found to decrease sharply from the central zone to the next zone (25–49 kilometers from the center), and then change very little with increasing distance from the center, for both urban and rural populations. None of several alternative mathematical models describes...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 97–109.
Published: 01 February 1990
... at the district of current residence. Our results show that in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the existence of rural development centers in a district reduced the levels of outmigration to pre-1965 levels. 30 12 2010 15 1 1987 15 8 1989 © Population Association of America 1990 1990...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 98–107.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Eduardo E. Arriaga Summary This study begins with a brief analysis of past and present urban-rural mortality in those countries which are presently considered to be developed. The same analysis centers in developing countries, for it is thought that their rural mortality should be greater than...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 352–377.
Published: 01 June 1966
...Juan C. Elizaga Summary The most significant results of a survey in Greater Santiago in 1962 by the Latin American Demographic Center are presented in this paper. The population studied had slightly more than 2 million inhabitants at the time the survey was taken. A probability sample was drawn...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1331–1351.
Published: 10 July 2017
...Pierluigi Conzo; Giulia Fuochi; Letizia Mencarini Abstract Despite recent strong interest in the link between fertility and subjective well-being, the focus has centered on developed countries. For poorer countries, in contrast, the relationship remains rather elusive. Using a well-established...
Includes: Supplementary data
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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 (1975) 12 (2): 193–208.
Published: 01 May 1975
... los Regional Latinoamericana de Poblacion, Mexico. Flinn, William L. 1966. Rural to Urban Migration: A Colombian Case. RP No. 19, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin. Flinn William L. , & Converse James W. ( 1970 ). Eight Assumptions Concerning Rural-Urban Migration...
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Demography (1981) 18 (1): 55–66.
Published: 01 February 1981
... to three key distinctions: migrants from rural versus ur- ban origins, recent versus more experienced cityward migrants, and type of urban destination. In Thailand in the early 1970s, migrants to smaller urban centers, especially the more experienced migrants, are economically more successfulthan migrants...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Jeffrey Edmeades Abstract This study explores the ways in which women’s contraceptive behavior in a rural area of Thailand is shaped by both past and present context, based on the life course framework. Although the importance of contextual influences for contraceptive behavior is well established...