Search Results for Rural Population

...Jane Riblett Wilkie Abstract The U.S. population by race and urban-rural residence from 1790 to 1860 is presented. The definition of the urban population used is that population residing in incorporated places of 2,500 population or more. The rural population is the residual of the total population...

...Majeed Khan 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1964 1964 Resumen La AcademiadePakistán para Desarrollo Rural en Comilla, ha estado auspiciando un Programa de Control de Población en una encuesta en aldeas ruralesde nivel de ingreso y alfabetismo extremadamente bajo...

... of the American Statistical Association , 90 , 377 – 95 . Lavely , W.R. ( 1982 ). China’s Rural Population Statistics at the Local Level . Population Index , 48 ( 4 ), 665 – 77 . 10.2307/2736523 Li , J. ( 1995 ). China’s One-Child Policy: How and How Well Has It Worked? A Case Study...

... longitudinal HIV data collected from rural Malawi in 2004 and 2006 to examine nonresponse in repeat population-based testing. It shows that nonresponse in repeat testing led to significant bias in the estimates of HIV prevalence and to inconsistent conclusions about the predictors of HIV status. In contrast...

... prevalence of female-headed households would likely be temporary given that female mortality was catching up with male mortality ( Heuveline 2004 ); however, in this rural population, the prevalence of female headships increased from about 35% in 2003 to 43% in 2015. Table 1 Descriptive information...

...Sidney Goldstein; Alice Goldstein Abstract In lieu of any official definition of “urban population” in Thailand, researchers and policy makers have generally used a simple urban-rural dichotomy, relying upon the administratively designated municipal areas as urban and the remainder of the kingdom...

.... Independent variables (following POET) are classified in the following manner: population, organization, environment, and technology. Rural population, population density, and household size correspond to population; racial minorities and deprivation represent social organization; tornado area represents...

...Daniel T. Lichter; Glenn V. Fuguitt Abstract A major aim of this study is to address our lack of understanding of rural-urban population change within nonmetropolitan counties of the United States. Specifically, we (a) examine trends between 1950 and 1975 in differential rural and urban growth...

... in an HDSS site. 3 The number of children per site varies widely across HDSS, from fewer than 5,000 children (Harar Urban and Mlomp) to more than 40,000 (Nouna, Agincourt, and Ifakara Rural), with an average of 20,000 children per site ( Table 1 ). These figures depend on the size of the population...

... ). Pakistan: The Rural Pilot Family Planning Action Program at Comilla . Studies in Family Planning , 3 , 9 – 11 . 7 Office of the Census Commissioner, Population Census of Pakistan , 1961: District Census Report (Comilla: 1961), Table 7 (Population by Age in Completed Years. Section 1–5 year age...

... Summary This article summarizes the results of a pretest to measure the fertility attitudes, knowledge, and behavior of a typical rural population in Latin America. The data were collected from a representative sample of seventy-one womenlivingin thefarming areasurrounding Colina, a small town 25...

... 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...

... importance of the rural population but to a much greater extent it is due to the falling age at marriage among all sections of the population. Simultaneous with the decline in age at marriage, the frequency distributions of brides' and grooms' ages have become both more skewed and more peaked. Thus earlier...

...) matching events from registration and surveys and field recheck of unmatched events to obtain the “best” count of real number of events. Preliminary results in a non-random sample indicate that the crude birth and death rates are around 37.1 and 15.7 per 1,000, respectively, for India’s rural population...

... counties. The county groups are distinctly different in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Out-migration as a mode of response adopted by the rural population in Iowa is by far the most dominant factor leading to natural decrease. Sustained net out-migration is more likely to touch off natural...

... an important hidden consequence of power instability in developing countries. It also suggests that electricity imposes significant externality effects on rural populations that have little exposure to it. 10 6 2014 10 7 2014 © Population Association of America 2014 2014 Africa...

... that the rural population of a country (in this case Sweden) experiencing mortality decline but little industrialization would reduce its fertility rates if out-migration from agricultural areas were not possible. This present study, using more complete data and better measures, concludes that this did not occur...

...John Stoeckel; A. K. M. Alauddin Choudhury Abstract Pregnancy termination intervals, i.e., live birth to live birth (LB-LB), live birth to fetal loss (LB-FL), and fetal loss to live birth (FL-LB), are analyzed prospectively between 1966 and 1970 in a rural population (117,000) of Bangladesh...

... birth resulting from an unintended pregnancy is particularly robust among women in younger, less educated, Medicaid, uninsured, and rural populations. The state-level abortion policy hostility index exposure measure was the primary independent variable of interest in the estimation model and was based...