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Percentage distribution of city, town, city slum, and town slum residents according to different slum definitions

Percentage distribution of city, town, city slum, and town slum residents a...

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Published: 04 June 2014
Fig. 2 Percentage distribution of city, town, city slum, and town slum residents according to different slum definitions More
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Slum Residence and Child Health in Developing Countries

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Günther Fink, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Hill
Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1175–1197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0302-0
Published: 04 June 2014
...Fig. 2 Percentage distribution of city, town, city slum, and town slum residents according to different slum definitions ...
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Differences in Child Health Across Rural, Urban, and Slum Areas: Evidence From India

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Claus C. Pörtner, Yu-hsuan Su
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 223–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0634-7
Published: 30 November 2017
.... Simple height-for-age averages show that rural Indian children have the poorest health and urban children have the best, with slum children in between. With wealth or observed health environment held constant, the urban height-for-age advantage disappears, and slum children fare significantly worse than...
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Maternal Migration and Child Fostering Arrangements in Nairobi's Slums

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Cassandra Cotton, Clement Oduor
Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1975–1998.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680713
Published: 01 December 2024
... when women move to urban slums, which are home to a sizable proportion of Africa's urban population. Using a mixed-methods approach, we triangulate in-depth interviews with birth histories collected in two slum settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, to explore the interconnections between maternal migration...
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Impact of Migration on Fertility and Abortion: Evidence From the Household and Welfare Study of Accra

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Slawa Rokicki, Livia Montana, Günther Fink
Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2229–2254.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0339-0
Published: 08 November 2014
... and abortion in particular. In this article, we use detailed pregnancy and migration histories collected as part of the Household and Welfare Study of Accra (HAWS) to examine the association between migration and pregnancy outcomes among women residing in the urban slums of Accra, Ghana. We find...
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Urban poverty and health in developing countries: Household and neighborhood Effects

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Mark R. Montgomery, Paul C. Hewett
Demography (2005) 42 (3): 397–425.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2005.0020
Published: 01 August 2005
... a Mechanism in the Relation Between Income and Health? . Social Science and Medicine , 57 , 1463 – 73 . 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00541-5 Population and Health Dynamics in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements: Report of the Nairobi Cross-Sectional Slums Survey (NCSS) 2000 . ( 2002 ). Nairobi : African...
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Statistics and politics: The “hispanic issue” in the 1980 census

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Harvey M. Choldin
Demography (1986) 23 (3): 403–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061438
Published: 01 August 1986
... Statistical Association, 1978. Choldin , H. M. , &amp; Trout , G. D. ( 1969 ). Mexican-Americans in Transition . East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University . Clinard , M. ( 1966 ). Slums and Community Development . New York : Free Press . Coale , A. J. ( 1955...
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The Impact of Childcare on Poor Urban Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa

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Shelley Clark, Caroline W. Kabiru, Sonia Laszlo, Stella Muthuri
Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1247–1272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00793-3
Published: 08 July 2019
... (33.3 %) sold food or goods, typically as small-scale vendors in local markets. Other women provided cleaning services, often as part of a government-sponsored slum improvement program (30.9 %); washed laundry (14.9 %); or performed service jobs, such as teaching, hairdressing, and tailoring, or worked...
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Urban determinants of racial differentiation in infant mortality

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Robert M. Jiobu
Demography (1972) 9 (4): 603–615.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060668
Published: 01 November 1972
... Review , 22 , 677 – 682 . 10.2307/2089197 Bogue , Donald J. ( 1969 ). Principles of Demography . New York : John Wiley and Sons . deVise, Pierre. 1969. Persistence of Chicago’s dual hospital system. Pp. 17–25 in Slum Medicine: Chicago’s Apartheid Health System, Report Number 6...
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White-nonwhite differentials: Overview and implications

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Earl E. Huyck
Demography (1966) 3 (2): 548–565.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060180
Published: 01 June 1966
..., gatelesspov- erty. They lack training and skills. They are shut in slums,without decent medicalcare Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences-deep, corro- sive, obstinate differences. . . . These differ- encesare not racial differences...
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Is There an Urban Advantage in Child Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From 18 Countries in the 1990s

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Philippe Bocquier, Nyovani Janet Madise, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu
Demography (2011) 48 (2): 531–558.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0019-2
Published: 18 May 2011
... that the disadvantage in child survival of urban migrants relative to natives that has been observed by a number of scholars (Brockerhoff 1990 , 1995 ; Konseiga et al. 2009 ; Van de Poel et al. 2007 ) is not universal. Many scholars have argued that because many migrants to urban areas live in slums, which lack...
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The Enduring Case for Fertility Desires

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Sara Yeatman, Jenny Trinitapoli, Sarah Garver
Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2047–2056.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00921-4
Published: 01 October 2020
.... 10 The TLT study focuses on a specific age range in a particular context. However, the gradient that we identify is similar to that found recently among postpartum women in urban Kenya slums (Machiyama et al. 2019 ). References Aiken , A. R. , Borrero , S. , Callegari , L. S...
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An Evaluation of new estimates of the negro population

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Melvin Zelnik
Demography (1965) 2 (1): 630–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060145
Published: 01 March 1965
... infants are counted neither in the Census nor in the vital statistics-both in the urban slums of the North and the rural slums of the South. The results of Table 1 suggest that indeed, as Dr. Zelnik argues, compara- tively little additional correction appears to be needed. However, if the CPS made...
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New Approaches to Human Mobility: Using Mobile Phones for Demographic Research

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John R. B. Palmer, Thomas J. Espenshade, Frederic Bartumeus, Chang Y. Chung, Necati Ercan Ozgencil ...
Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1105–1128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0175-z
Published: 29 November 2012
... traditional migration events in populations that are otherwise hard to reach. For example, Wesolowski and Eagle ( 2010 ) used cellular tower data to infer changes of residence within a Nairobi slum that lacked the administrative or census records that would have been used for this purpose in other settings...
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The Pros and Cons of “Self-Enumeration”

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Donald J. Bogue
Demography (1965) 2 (1): 600–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060143
Published: 01 March 1965
... of data. The programs to fight poverty, to rebuild slums, and to aid depressed areas are aug- menting this development, because such programs require exact information about local problems and situations. The need is not only for reliable population and reliable economic information for small areas...
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Models of illegitimacy: United States, 1969

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Larry Freshnock, Phillips Cutright
Demography (1979) 16 (1): 37–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061077
Published: 01 February 1979
... . Westoff C. F. ( 1976 ). The Decline of Unplanned Births in the United States . Science , 191 , 38 – 41 . 10.1126/science.1246597 Whyte W. ( 1943 ). A Slum Sex Code . American Journal of Sociology , 49 , 24 – 31 . 10.1086/219305 Winegarden C. R. ( 1974...
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Rural-urban mobility in Thailand: A decision-making approach

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Theodore D. Fuller, Paul Lightfoot, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa
Demography (1985) 22 (4): 565–579.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061588
Published: 01 November 1985
... Slum: Aspects of Social Organization. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University. Rhoda R. ( 1983 ). Rural development and urban migration: can we keep them down on the farm? . International Migration Review , 17 , 34 – 64 . 10.2307/2545923 Ritchey P. N. ( 1976...
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The residential segregation of occupational groups in central cities and suburbs

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John Fine, Norval D. Glenn, J. Kenneth Monts
Demography (1971) 8 (1): 91–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060341
Published: 01 February 1971
... impression of a homogenized mass of people as a sprawling sea of tract houses. Central city slums often have considerable architectural variety and cover little territory, but the typical slum may contain a larger number of socio-economically similar people than the typical tract development. REFERENCES...
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The age of extremes: Concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century

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Douglas S. Massey
Demography (1996) 33 (4): 395–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061773
Published: 01 November 1996
... and Row . Stalker P. ( 1994 ). The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labour Migration . Geneva : International Labour Office . Suttles G.D. ( 1968 ). The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Variations in marriage patterns in central Thailand

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Andrew Cherlin, Aphichat Chamratrithirong
Demography (1988) 25 (3): 337–353.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061536
Published: 01 August 1988
... of one of the largest and oldest squatter settlements in the city, known as Slum Klong Toey. There was no running water in the settlement, though most dwellings had electricity; and sanitary conditions were poor. Most of the men sought work as porters, drivers, or similar kinds of unskilled laborers...
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