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Moving Across Boundaries: Migration in South Africa, 1950–2000

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Holly E. Reed
Demography (2013) 50 (1): 71–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0140-x
Published: 06 September 2012
...Holly E. Reed Abstract Existing knowledge about historical patterns of black internal migration in South Africa is incomplete, primarily because of the lack of good life course studies as well as the apartheid government’s suppression and censoring of data. This article provides a comprehensive...
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Historical migration rates in South Africa

Historical migration rates in South Africa

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Published: 06 September 2012
Fig. 1 Historical migration rates in South Africa More
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Does race matter? Children’s height in Brazil and South Africa

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Sarah Burgard
Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0034
Published: 01 November 2002
...Sarah Burgard Abstract I examine racial differences in child stunting in mid-1990s South Africa and Brazil, two multiracial societies with different histories of legal support for racial discrimination. Using data from nationally representative household samples linked to community-level measures...
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Contraceptive use in South Africa under apartheid

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Carol E. Kaufman
Demography (1998) 35 (4): 421–434.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3004011
Published: 01 November 1998
....10.080184.002033 Brown , B.B. ( 1987 ). Facing the ‘Black Peril’: The Politics of Population Control in South Africa . Journal of Southern African Studies , 13 , 256 – 73 . 10.1080/03057078708708144 Bryk , S.A. , &amp; Raudenbush , S.W. ( 1992 ). Hierarchical Linear Models...
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The impact of parental death on school outcomes: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

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Anne Case, Cally Ardington
Demography (2006) 43 (3): 401–420.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2006.0022
Published: 01 August 2006
... that the estimated effects of maternal deaths on children’s outcomes in the Africa Centre DSA reflect the reality for orphans throughout South Africa. The Impact of Parental Death on School Outcomes 401 T Demography, Volume 43-Number 3, August 2006: 401 420 401 THE IMPACT OF PARENTAL DEATH ON SCHOOL OUTCOMES...
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Child Mobility, Maternal Status, and Household Composition in Rural South Africa

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Sangeetha Madhavan, Enid Schatz, Samuel Clark, Mark Collinson
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 699–718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0087-3
Published: 20 January 2012
...Sangeetha Madhavan; Enid Schatz; Samuel Clark; Mark Collinson Abstract This article examines the influence of maternal status, socioeconomic status of the household, and household composition on the mobility of children aged 0–14 in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, from 1999 to 2008. Using data...
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Aids mortality and the mobility of children in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

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Kathleen Ford, Victoria Hosegood
Demography (2005) 42 (4): 757–768.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2005.0029
Published: 01 November 2005
...Kathleen Ford; Victoria Hosegood Abstract This paper examines the effect of parental death on the mobility of 39,163 children aged 0–17 in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, in 2000 and 2001. Parental mortality from all causes prior to and during follow-up increased the risk of a child moving...
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Racial differences in occupational status and income in South Africa, 1880 and 1881

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Donald J. Treiman, Matthew Mckeever, Eva Fodor
Demography (1996) 33 (1): 111–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061717
Published: 01 February 1996
... Attainment References Behr A.L. ( 1988 ). Education in South Africa: Origins, Issues and Trends: 1652–1988 . Pretoria : Academia . Population Census 1980: Detailed Classification of Occupations with Descriptions . ( 1980 ). Pretoria : Central Statistical Service . Standard...
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Percentage of all African-origin migrants who came from Egypt, South Africa, and Morocco and obtained permanent legal status by decade (1950–2009). Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Statistical Yearbook of Immigration and Naturalization Service (1982–2001); U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (2002–2011)

Percentage of all African-origin migrants who came from Egypt, South Africa...

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in Africans in the American Labor Market > Demography
Published: 25 August 2015
Fig. 2 Percentage of all African-origin migrants who came from Egypt, South Africa, and Morocco and obtained permanent legal status by decade (1950–2009). Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Statistical Yearbook of Immigration and Naturalization Service ( 1982 –2001); U.S. Department More
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Immigrant Fertility in Comparative Perspective: South Africa and the United States

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Guadalupe Aguilera, Kim Korinek
Demography (2020) 57 (1): 297–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00852-9
Published: 07 February 2020
... that national origin shapes patterns of childbearing within fertility covariates. We use data from Statistics South Africa and the United States Census Bureau harmonized in the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International for a disaggregated analysis of the odds of a birth in the past year among...
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Stop! Go! What Can We Learn About Family Planning From Birth Timing in Settler South Africa, 1835–1950?

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Jeanne Cilliers, Martine Mariotti
Demography (2021) 58 (3): 901–925.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9164749
Published: 01 June 2021
...Jeanne Cilliers; Martine Mariotti Abstract We revisit the discussion on family limitation through stopping and spacing behavior before and during the fertility transition with a sample of 12,800 settler women's birth histories in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Using cure models...
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Application to Mexico and South Africa. The figure shows data and predicted values in standard five-year age groups produced by Log-Quad and SVD-Comp models using both child and adult mortality as predictors.

Application to Mexico and South Africa. The figure shows data and predicted...

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in A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality > Demography
Published: 28 May 2019
Fig. 6 Application to Mexico and South Africa. The figure shows data and predicted values in standard five-year age groups produced by Log-Quad and SVD-Comp models using both child and adult mortality as predictors. More
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Poor Health Reporting? Using Anchoring Vignettes to Uncover Health Disparities by Wealth and Race

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Laura Rossouw, Teresa Bago d’Uva, Eddy van Doorslaer
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1935–1956.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0709-0
Published: 25 September 2018
... almost disappears after we correct for reporting tendencies. Such large shifts and even reversals of health gradients have not been documented in previous studies on reporting bias in health inequalities. The evidence for South Africa, with its history of racial segregation and socioeconomic inequality...
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Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting

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Shao-Tzu Yu, Brian Houle, Enid Schatz, Nicole Angotti, Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula ...
Demography (2024) 61 (1): 31–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11146140
Published: 01 February 2024
... profile over the 13-year period. South Africa Household structure Household transition HIV Finite mixture models Recent evidence on past and future trends in household structure in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) contrasts with longstanding viewpoints of a worldwide...
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The Crucial Role of Mothers and Siblings in Child Survival: Evidence From 29 Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Philippe Bocquier, Carren Ginsburg, Ashira Menashe-Oren, Yacouba Compaoré, Mark Collinson
Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1687–1713.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9429499
Published: 01 October 2021
...–2016 7,112 23,493 384 Mostly rural 1,023 17.32 375 7.0 97.6 9.0 0.360  Mozambique Chokwe 2010–2015 14,146 32,502 589 Semi-urban 633 24.30 93 3.8 97.9 25.8 0.473  South Africa Agincourt 1993–2016 44,757 159,776 1,949 Rural 827 22.24 343 9.4 78.4 22.3 1.070...
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Marital Shopping and Epidemic AIDS

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Jeremy R. Magruder
Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1401–1428.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0060-1
Published: 02 September 2011
...Jeremy R. Magruder Abstract HIV risks decline sharply at age 30 for women in South Africa, long before coital frequencies or pregnancies decrease. I evaluate several prominent behavioral models of HIV, and find that these do not suggest sharply decreasing risks with age. I formulate a model...
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Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of Limitation, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing

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Ian M. Timæus, Tom A. Moultrie
Demography (2020) 57 (1): 267–296.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00848-5
Published: 22 January 2020
... begins may also be a factor that helps to explain its course. Lengthy postponement of the next birth is common in sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of divorce and remarriage are generally fairly high (Clark and Brauner-Otto 2015 ), but is not found in India and other South Asian countries, where divorce...
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Africans in the American Labor Market

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Irma T. Elo, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Romeo Gansey, Duncan Thomas
Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0417-y
Published: 25 August 2015
...Fig. 2 Percentage of all African-origin migrants who came from Egypt, South Africa, and Morocco and obtained permanent legal status by decade (1950–2009). Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Statistical Yearbook of Immigration and Naturalization Service ( 1982 –2001); U.S. Department...
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Do Migrants Exhibit More Grit? A Research Note

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Michael J. White, Tyler W. Myroniuk, Carren Ginsburg, Chantel Pheiffer
Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1309–1323.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11577556
Published: 01 October 2024
... author: [email protected] Copyright © 2024 The Authors 2024 Freely available online through the Demography open access option. Internal migration Grit Migration selection Urbanization South Africa A host of studies examining various aspects of differential migrant...
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A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality

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Samuel J. Clark
Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1131–1159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00785-3
Published: 28 May 2019
...Fig. 6 Application to Mexico and South Africa. The figure shows data and predicted values in standard five-year age groups produced by Log-Quad and SVD-Comp models using both child and adult mortality as predictors. ...
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