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The Index of Overall Headship: A Simple Measure of Household Complexity Standardized for Age and Sex
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Demography (1980) 17 (1): 25–37.
Published: 01 February 1980
... at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, August, 1972. DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 17, Number J February 1980 THE INDEX OF OVERALL HEADSHIP: A SIMPLE MEASURE OF HOUSEHOLD COMPLEXITY STANDARDIZED FOR AGE AND SEX Thomas K. Burch Deportment of Sociology and Population Studies Centre, University...
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White infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI), standardized effects, 198...
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in Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
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Published: 22 May 2020
Fig. 2 White infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI), standardized effects, 1983–2013. <12 years = less than 12 years of education; 12+ years = at least 12 years of education; IMR = infant mortality rates. We note a few most important factors. From 1983 to 2006, the increasing nonmarital
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Black infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI), standardized effects, 198...
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in Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
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Published: 22 May 2020
Fig. 3 Black infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI), standardized effects, 1983–2013. <12 years = less than 12 years of education; 12+ years = at least 12 years of education; IMR = infant mortality rates. We note a few most important factors. From 1983 to 2013, Black women’s declining
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The geometric mean of the age-specific death rates as a summary index of mortality
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 317–324.
Published: 01 August 1970
...Robert Schoen Abstract Even though a single summary index of mortality can never replace the set of age-specific death rates, it has been found to be extremely useful for a wide variety of purposes. Such indexes are generally one of two types: aggregative indexes, such as directly standardized...
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Revisiting das gupta: Refinement and extension of standardization and decomposition
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 429–449.
Published: 01 August 2009
... because of the additivity of categorical compositional and rate effects. Other refinements allow the decomposition of polytomous variables. Extensions to the method provide for the decomposition of the standard deviation and the multivariate index of dissimilarity. 13 1 2011 © Population...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 627–642.
Published: 01 June 2024
... index for the United States. By employing administrative microdata to link Social Security Administration mortality records to CRE, we show that CRE quartiles provide more stable predictions of COVID-19 excess deaths than single demographic categorizations such as race or age, as well as other...
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View articletitled, A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-19
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Comment on suzanne M. Bianchi and Nancy Rytina’s “the decline in occupational sex segregation during the 1970s: Census and CPS comparisons”
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 291–295.
Published: 01 May 1987
...Prithwis Das Gupta 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Standardize Index Racial Segregation County Population Occupational Structure Fertility Differential References Bianchi , S. M. , & Rytina , N. ( 1986 ). The decline...
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Predicting adult health and mortality from adolescent facial characteristics in yearbook photographs
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., the standardized relative body mass index (SRBMI) was moderately correlated (r = .31) with body mass index (BMI) at ages 53–54 and with maximum BMI reported between ages 16 and 30 (r = .48). Overweight adolescents (≥ 90th percentile of SRBMI) were about three times more likely than healthy-weight adolescents (10th...
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The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to National Death Index (NDI). It is easy to see why these data earned the gold standard imprimatur. After all, the NHIS data set is large and population-representative; it includes multiple birth cohorts; and it is constructed using administrative records, which are generally viewed as accurate. Even so...
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Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters’ Health, Schooling, and Employment: A Constructed Cohort Analysis of 50 Developing Countries
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 835–863.
Published: 06 May 2016
..., and having a low body mass index. Among sub-Saharan African cohorts, the estimated changes are larger, particularly for years of schooling. The pseudo-cohort approach can enable longitudinal testing of life course hypotheses using large-scale, standardized, repeated cross-sectional data and with considerable...
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Perturbation Analysis of Indices of Lifespan Variability
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1615–1640.
Published: 17 September 2013
..., standard deviation, variance, Theil’s index, mean logarithmic deviation, and interquartile range). We derive each of these indices from an absorbing Markov chain formulation of the life table, and use matrix calculus to obtain the sensitivity and the elasticity (i.e., the proportional sensitivity...
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A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development With Fertility?
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 173–184.
Published: 06 November 2013
..., and standard of living. Thus, questions remain: Does the relationship between the TFR and development reverse for all components? Are there different thresholds for each HDI component at which the relationship reverses? Which component, if any, is driving the result for the composite index? MKB used annual...
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A Standardized dependency ratio
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 876–893.
Published: 01 June 1967
... load are shown to be much smaller than is suggested by the normally used unweighted index. The dependency ratio is a familiar con- cept of demographic analysis used to ex- plain variations in standards of living and in economic development.' Briefly speak- ing, its objective is to provide "a measure...
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Published: 01 June 2022
in consideration. Each index has been standardized to average mean 0 and standard deviation 1. We compute the average of each occupation index by subgroup. Negative numbers indicate lack of that characteristic in the jobs of that group.
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The sensitivity of each index with respect to mortality change at different...
Available to PurchasePublished: 17 September 2013
Fig. 2 The sensitivity of each index with respect to mortality change at different ages. The sensitivities were standardized to the value of each index (i.e., ) to make them comparable. Note the difference in scale between the top and bottom panels, plotted separately to more clearly
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The sensitivity of each index with respect to mortality change at different...
Available to PurchasePublished: 17 September 2013
Fig. 2 The sensitivity of each index with respect to mortality change at different ages. The sensitivities were standardized to the value of each index (i.e., ) to make them comparable. Note the difference in scale between the top and bottom panels, plotted separately to more clearly
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The sensitivity of each index conditional on survival to age 10 with respec...
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Fig. 6 The sensitivity of each index conditional on survival to age 10 with respect to mortality change at different ages. The sensitivities were standardized to the value of each index, i.e. , to make them comparable. Note the difference in scale between the top and bottom panels, plotted
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The sensitivity of each index conditional on survival to age 10 with respec...
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Fig. 6 The sensitivity of each index conditional on survival to age 10 with respect to mortality change at different ages. The sensitivities were standardized to the value of each index, i.e. , to make them comparable. Note the difference in scale between the top and bottom panels, plotted
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Standardized comparisons in population research
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 296–315.
Published: 01 March 1964
... explorados por los demógrafos. Specific Rate Index Number Population Research Crude Death Rate Standard Population References 1 Woolsey Theodore D. ( 1943 ). Adjusted Death Rates and Other Indices of Mortality . In Forrest E. Linder , & Robert D. Grove (Eds...
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Individual Decisions to Migrate During Civil Conflict
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 401–424.
Published: 04 May 2011
... locations Whether respondent migrates in month t + 1: migrates within Chitwan = 1, migrates to other districts or other countries = 2, or doesn't migrate at all in month t + 1. Proximate Causes Standardized index of violence Derived through factor analysis using six indicators...
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