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Migration in the Southeast

T. J. Woofter
Demography (1967) 4 (2): 532–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060297
Published: 01 June 1967
... the Southeast experienced both economic and demographic revolutions. They were interrelated in many ways. Agriculture was mechanized and reorganized making millions of farmers and farm laborers surplus. The natural assets of the region were developed and industry grew more rapidly than in other regions...
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Community characteristics, individual and household attributes, and child survival in brazil

Narayan Sastry
Demography (1996) 33 (2): 211–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061873
Published: 01 May 1996
... and education have tended to mirror the regional differentials, and hence have received somewhat less attention. In practically every measure of well-being, the North- east region of Brazil lags behind all other regions-particu- larly the more-developed South/Southeast, which includes highly industrialized...
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The Changing Impact of Family Size on Adolescents’ Schooling: Assessing the Exogenous Variation in Fertility Using Twins in Brazil

Letícia J. Marteleto, Laetícia R. de Souza
Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1453–1477.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0118-8
Published: 19 July 2012
... regions, more prominently between the Northeast and North versus the South and Southeast regions. The disparities between these regions are large in several aspects of social life but, particular to this research, are staggering in terms of access to education and economic conditions in the 1970s...
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Impact of Road Traffic Deaths on Expected Years of Life Lost and Reduction in Life Expectancy in Brazil

Aruna Chandran, Geoffrey Kahn, Tanara Sousa, Flavio Pechansky, David M. Bishai ...
Demography (2013) 50 (1): 229–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0135-7
Published: 18 August 2012
...-West regions of Brazil have significantly higher crash mortality rates than the North, Northeast, or Southeast regions. This is not surprising for the North and Northeast regions because these are more rural and less developed. The Southeast contains the country’s largest cities and highest number...
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Fig. 7 Discrete time hazard model results of women's odds of bereavement as a function of their mothers’ history of bereavement. Estimates are based on Demographic and Health Surveys Program data. Hollow circles denote that the association between mothers’ bereavement and women's odds of child loss was modeled with a random slope to acknowledge systematic variation in the association across subnational regions. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green = South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa; yellow = West Africa.

Discrete time hazard model results of women's odds of bereavement as a func...

in Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries > Demography
Published: 01 August 2024
loss was modeled with a random slope to acknowledge systematic variation in the association across subnational regions. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green = South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa More
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Fig. 4 Percentage of women maternally bereaved (left panel) and percentage of women with a bereaved mother (right panel), by country and cohort. Estimates are based on Demographic and Health Surveys Program data. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green = South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa; yellow = West Africa.

Percentage of women maternally bereaved (left panel) and percentage of wome...

in Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries > Demography
Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 4 Percentage of women maternally bereaved (left panel) and percentage of women with a bereaved mother (right panel), by country and cohort. Estimates are based on Demographic and Health Surveys Program data. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green More
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Knox meets Cox: Adapting epidemiological space-time statistics to demographic studies

Carl P. Schmertmann, Renato M. Assunção, Joseph E. Potter
Demography (2010) 47 (3): 629–650.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0113
Published: 01 August 2010
... of study, with large changes in industrializa- tion, infrastructure, and education occurring ¿ rst in the South and Southeast regions. In effect, one must raise the standard of evidence in any statistical test in order to account for spatial patterns and localized changes in socioeconomic variables...
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Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan General Theory of Mortality and Aging

Hui Zheng, Yang Yang, Kenneth C. Land
Demography (2011) 48 (1): 267–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0013-8
Published: 23 February 2011
... . The impact of regional location can occur through various mechanisms. One that appears to be quite important is that Central American and Southeast Asian countries are located in the tropics with year-round sun exposure, which helps generate vitamin D inside human bodies (Grant et al. 2003 ; John et al...
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Multiple Perspectives on Recent Trends in Unwanted Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

John B. Casterline, Laila O. El-Zeini
Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9644472
Published: 01 February 2022
... and changes in interbirth intervals. This study makes use of a large archive of 360 fertility surveys covering 78 LMICs from five geographic regions (East and South Africa, Middle and West Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and West Asia and North Africa). The analysis is based on data...
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Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980–2018

Aaron Gullickson
Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1929–1951.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10218826
Published: 01 October 2022
..., except for the Vietnamese–Chinese case, for which there is no barrier to ethnic exogamy. These results indicate some regional distinction in panethnic intermarriage among East/Southeast Asians. Filipinos, in particular, have the lowest odds of ethnic exogamy with all of the other Asian groups, suggesting...
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Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil: A Research Note on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Contribution to Changes in Life Expectancy at Birth

Fernando Fernandes, Cássio M. Turra, Giovanny V. A. França, Marcia C. Castro
Demography (2025) 62 (2): 381–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11862487
Published: 01 April 2025
... Brazilian regions (North, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, and South) by five-year age groups (0–4 to 90+) and sex (male and female) ( IBGE 2018 ). We apply cubic splines ( Forsythe et al. 1977 ; Zeileis and Grothendieck 2005 ) to these midyear populations to estimate 144 midmonth populations (i.e., from...
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Fig. 5 Distribution of women by their personal experience of bereavement and their mothers’ history of maternal bereavement. Estimates are based on Demographic and Health Surveys Program data. Plot a: neither mother nor adult daughter bereaved; plot b: mother bereaved but adult daughter not bereaved; plot c: mother not bereaved but adult daughter bereaved; and plot d: both mother and adult daughter bereaved. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green = South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa; yellow = West Africa.

Distribution of women by their personal experience of bereavement and their...

in Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries > Demography
Published: 01 August 2024
not bereaved; plot c: mother not bereaved but adult daughter bereaved; and plot d: both mother and adult daughter bereaved. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green = South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa; yellow More
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Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Clara E. Busse, Katherine Tumlinson, Leigh Senderowicz
Demography (2025) 62 (2): 657–686.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11876504
Published: 01 April 2025
... in Middle and Southern Africa, 11 in Western Africa, 10 in North Africa/West Asia/Europe, 2 in Central Asia, 12 in South and Southeast Asia and Oceania, and 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean ( DHS 2021 ). Countries were organized into regions using DHS groupings ( DHS n.d. ). Sub-Saharan Africa...
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Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters

Emily Smith-Greenaway
Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1551–1561.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0209-1
Published: 17 April 2013
...** 0.006  Female-headed household 1.104 0.118 1.100 0.118  Household size (1–20) 0.946*** 0.008 0.934*** 0.008 Context  Region   North central (ref.)    Northeast 1.469*** 0.131 1.373*** 0.123    Northwest 1.327** 0.131 1.265* 0.126    Southeast...
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Forest fires, air pollution, and mortality in Southeast Asia

Narayan Sastry
Demography (2002) 39 (1): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0009
Published: 01 February 2002
... have also caught fire and may smolder for a long time. Some coal seams that caught fire during the early 1980s are still smoldering. Smoke Haze From Forest Fires The smoke from the forest fires traveled across the Southeast Asian region, reaching all the way to southern parts of Thailand...
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Life Expectancy Among U.S.-born and Foreign-born Older Adults in the United States: Estimates From Linked Social Security and Medicare Data

Neil K. Mehta, Irma T. Elo, Michal Engelman, Diane S. Lauderdale, Bert M. Kestenbaum
Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1109–1134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0488-4
Published: 06 July 2016
... regions of birth among the foreign-born is substantial. The top quartile of place-of-birth groups (South Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southeast Asia, and South America) had a life expectancy at age 65 that was approximately 2.5 years greater than that of the bottom quartile (northern Europe, other eastern...
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Rural-urban mobility in Thailand: A decision-making approach

Theodore D. Fuller, Paul Lightfoot, Peerasit Kamnuansilpa
Demography (1985) 22 (4): 565–579.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061588
Published: 01 November 1985
... ). Circulation in the Context of Total Mobility in Southeast Asia . Honolulu : East-West Center . Goldstein S. , &amp; Goldstein A. ( 1981 ). Surveys of Migration in Developing Countries: A Methodological Review . Honolulu : East-West Center . Goodman J. L. ( 1981 ). Information...
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Cross-National Sources of Health Inequality: Education and Tobacco Use in the World Health Survey

Fred C. Pampel, Justin T. Denney
Demography (2011) 48 (2): 653–674.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0027-2
Published: 14 April 2011
... nations (WHO 2008b ). The WHS relies on representative samples and has comparable measures of tobacco use, social position, and economic resources for nations of Africa, Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Americas, and Eastern Europe. This diverse sample includes regions...
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The impact of war, famine, and economic decline on marital fertility in ethiopia

David P. Lindstrom, Betemariam Berhanu
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 247–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648112
Published: 01 May 1999
... in the early 1960s, separatist movements emerged in the northern prov- ince of Eritrea and later in the early 1970s in the southeast- ern area of The Ogaden, which borders Somalia. Govern- ment counter-insurgency policies in the two regions in com- bination with a drought precipitated a major famine from 1972...
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Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Emily Smith-Greenaway, Abigail Weitzman, Yingyi Lin, Katarina Huss
Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1043–1067.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11477436
Published: 01 August 2024
... loss was modeled with a random slope to acknowledge systematic variation in the association across subnational regions. Colors correspond to world regions: blue = Latin America and the Caribbean; green = South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa...
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