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A Standardized dependency ratio
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 876–893.
Published: 01 June 1967
... magnitud de la dependencia, aparecen más pequeñas de lo que suqiereun índice no ponderado que normalmente se usa. Summary The dependency ratio is a measure of the effect which demographic factors exert on standards of living. It is usually defined either as the ratio of the young and the aged population...
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Report on a multiple regression method for making population estimates
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 369–379.
Published: 01 August 1976
...William O’Hare Abstract A new method of making population estimates is introduced and contrasted to the standard ratio-correlation method. The new method, called the “difference-correlation method,” produced population estimates for the counties of Michigan which had a smaller mean percentage error...
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in “Outside the Skin”: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in U.S. Early-Life Mortality
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Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 1 All-cause age-standardized mortality rates (panel a) and ratios (panel b), ages 15–24, United States, 1990–2016. Data are from National Vital Statistics System mortality files and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result Program population counts. Data represent three-year moving
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A decomposition of trends in the nonmarital fertility ratios of blacks and whites in the united states, 1960–1992
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 141–151.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Herbert L. Smith; S. Philip Morgan; Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox Abstract We use a method of standardization and decomposition developed by Das Gupta to update Smith and Cutright’s analysis of demographic factors responsible for increases in the nonmarital fertility ratio (illegitimacy ratio) among blacks...
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Estimation of interprovincial migration for Canada from place of birth by residence data, 1951–1961
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 123–139.
Published: 01 February 1971
... the relative accuracy of net migration may be, the birth-residence approach is capable of furnishing more details about the net migration of the native born than by the standard survival-ratio methods. For the population under age 10 intercensal estimates were directly derived from the place of birth...
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Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 291–316.
Published: 19 February 2011
... it is unclear whether such policies increase use of prenatal sex selection. China’s sex ratio at birth, once it is standardized by birth order, fell between 2000 and 2005 and showed a continuing excess in urban China, not rural China. 10 One concern about the long form sample is that it is not nationally...
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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
... considerably the geographical and temporal range of comparable empirical measures of household complexity. 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1980 1980 Married Child Average Household Size Household Formation Standardize Ratio Headship Rate References Burch T. K...
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Metropolitan migration efficiency
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 655–664.
Published: 01 November 1972
... areas. Obviously, further research is needed for the identification of factors producing these strong regional effects. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Metropolitan Area North Central Migrant Population Efficiency Ratio Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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Illustration of standardization method. Shading = reported flows to be stan...
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Fig. 2 Illustration of standardization method. Shading = reported flows to be standardized at each step. Italics = reported and standardized flows used to calculate adjustment ratios. Boldface = standardized flows resulting from each step = reported flow × adjustment ratio (e.g., D to E = 40
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Cohort estimates of nonmarital fertility for U.S. Women
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 193–207.
Published: 01 February 2008
... following a divorce or marital separation for white women approximately twice that for black or Hispanic women. Finally, I introduce a new measure, the cohort nonmarital fertility ratio (CNMFR), which provides a cohort complement to the standard period nonmarital fertility ratio. Conservative estimates...
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Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data: Example of the Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... regression coefficients, and their standard errors) with couple data in each of 11 DHS surveys in which the couple weight could be derived. We used two measures of bias: absolute percentage difference from the value estimated with the couple weight and ratio of the absolute difference to the standard error...
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Concept, measurement, and data in migration analysis
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 253–261.
Published: 01 March 1967
... literatura sobre la teoría matemática de las epidemics. Migration Rate American Sociological Review Migration Data Standardize Ratio Milbank Memorial Fund References 1 Anderson T. R. ( 1955 ). Intermetropolitan Migration: A Comparison of the Hypotheses of Zipf and Stouffer...
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Recent developments in seasonally adjusting vital statistics
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 305–318.
Published: 01 June 1966
... in the underlying trend of the rates. Several methods have recently been developed, using an electronic computer, to identify and remove the seasonal component from time series of monthly data. The methods are basically adaptations of a standard technique—the ratio-to-moving average method—for seasonally adjusting...
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Fertility in urban areas of Mexico: Implications for the theory of the demographic transition
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 363–373.
Published: 01 March 1967
...) changes in urban fertility are inversely related to changes in the proportion of the urban population employed in the secondary sector of the economy. At each census date from 1940 to 1960, the association between urban fertility (age-standardized child-woman ratio adjusted for infant mortality...
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Study of age misstatement among young children in Ghana
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 477–490.
Published: 01 June 1966
... the peaking at three years of age. It was shown that age advancement may have reduced the size of the 0–4 age group by about 5 percent relative to adult female age groups, and this would result in an understatement of fertility as measured by the child/woman age ratio of the same amount.The research described...
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Racial Equity or Racial Equality
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Demography (1980) 17 (4): 379–393.
Published: 01 November 1980
..., it would take almost 50 years for the black-white earnings ratio to reach .95. This incompatibility between equity and equality needs to be considered more explicitly both by those who advocate a color-blind labor market and those who advocate preferential treatment for blacks. 7 1 2011 ©...
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Sampling variability of own-children fertility estimates
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 571–580.
Published: 01 November 1977
... where k is shorthand notation for the quotient of reverse-survival ratios in equa- tion (3), and time and age values are un- derstood. For purposes of calculating standard errors, we treat k as constant and A = CIW as a random variable. The justifica- tion for treating the mortality function k...
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The geographic scale of Metropolitan racial segregation
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 489–514.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and the corresponding macro/micro segregation ratio—that offers a scale-sensitive alternative to standard methodological practice for describing segregation. Using this approach, we measure and describe the geographic scale of racial segregation in the 40 largest U.S. metropolitan areas in 2000. We find considerable...
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Shopping center location and retail store mix in metropolitan areas
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 125–131.
Published: 01 May 1969
... sales in 1963 in 116 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA's) are related to SMSA size in 1960. Nucleated sales occur in the Central Business District (CBD) and in Major Retail Centers (MRC's). As SMSA's grow, the proportion of sales in MRC's increases and that in the CBD decreases. The ratio...
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Birth outcome, not pregnancy process: Reply to van der Veen
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 519–527.
Published: 01 November 1998
... in the demographic literature. In his commentary, van der Veen focuses on the measurement of one of the dimensions of that classification, maturity of the infant. as proxied by the fetal growth ratio. The crux of the critique is easily seen in van der Veen's statement that “all of my disagreements with Frisbie et al...
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