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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 360–362.
Published: 01 March 1967
...James N. Morgan Summary The notions that most people travel to the center of the city to work and that the farther out they live the longer it takes are only appropriate for middle-sized cities. In larger urban areas, many people work outside the center, and it is the speed of travel which most...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 171–187.
Published: 01 May 1997
... Association of America 1997 1997 Global Position System Graphic Information System Family Planning Travel Time Travel Speed References Albert D.P. , Gesler W.M. , & Wittie P. ( 1995 ). Geographic Information Systems and Health: An Educational Resource . Journal...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 841–861.
Published: 04 June 2011
.... An analogy may be useful. Consider a car traveling for a fixed duration of time. Its speed varies during the journey: rounding a sharp bend or going uphill, it slows down, while on the straight or downhill, it travels faster. Speed may vary also depending on terrain, traffic, the driver’s inclinations...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
..., and SHARE. At the Wave 3 interview (2014/2015), 6,566 respondents completed a computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) in their homes and were invited to travel to a dedicated health center based in Trinity College Dublin for a comprehensive health assessment. If unable or unwilling to travel...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 489–514.
Published: 01 August 2008
... distribution of institutions, labor markets, and retail shopping establishments. In densely populated urban areas, such institutions are closer together, so there will be many more in a neighborhood of a given radius than in a similarly sized neighborhood in a suburban or exurban area. Likewise, travel speed...
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 401–415.
Published: 01 August 1979
... decades have in- cluded the high-speed automobile and hard-surfaced highway, plus improve- ments in indirect electronics. This spatial expansion of the metropolis has some lim- its, of course, as points beyond commu- ting range of the metropolitan center are reached. The overall growth of suburban rings...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 143–157.
Published: 01 May 1993
... use. Therefore the patterns in Botswana in the 1980s can be described as a combination of (1) a general fertility decline of about one child per woman, which had taken place by about 1985 and which has continued in urban areas, though at a slightly lower speed, and (2) a recent leveling off and indeed...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1127–1149.
Published: 25 June 2011
... across the Internet allows paradata to flow to centralized managers continuously, greatly improving the speed of analysis and the speed of adjustments to data collection protocols. All indications are that these technical breakthroughs will continue to occur at a fast clip. From this, we expect greater...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 553–560.
Published: 01 June 1968
... plan- ning. Since the fellowship program began, awards have been made to a total of 529 men and women, of whom 404 have been from the less developed countries. Further stimulation of professional in- terest and involvement in the field has been given by travel grants and by sup- port of international...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1453–1476.
Published: 13 September 2016
... and the ENADID, but the EMIF estimates of male emigration to the United States are 33 % lower than the ENADID. This difference may be partly due to the absence of air travelers in the EMIF (data on air travelers are available since 2009 for return migrants only), which suggests that legal migrants may...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 679–689.
Published: 01 June 1968
.... Each vasectomy ac- ceptor receives about $3.00 as compensa- tion for work time lost, and the field staff receive a 36~ vasectomy referral fee, an 18~ lUCD referral fee, and a small travel allowance. Any acceptors experiencing major or minor medical difficulties can ob- tain treatment free. The program...
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Writing the names: Marriage style, living arrangements, and first birth interval in a Nepali society
Demography (1993) 30 (2): 175–188.
Published: 01 May 1993
... and travel to Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu and beyond. Until very recently, Timling's inhabitants were strongly pronatalist. Reasons for having children, as expressed in earlier fieldwork (Fricke 1986), included their importance in the household economy, in diversifying family production by the entry...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 February 1971
... of the Principle of Population . London : John Murray . Malthus , T. R. ( 1936 ). The Principles of Political Economy . Second Edition London : London School of Economics and Political Science . Malthus , T. R. ( 1966 ). Patricia James The Travel Diaries of Thomas Robert Malthus...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 181–192.
Published: 01 May 1996
... purpose of this paper is to estimate the ef- fect of expansions in Medicaid income eligibility on resolu- tion of pregnancy. States have differed in the timing, speed, and extent of their response to congressional mandates. Thus variations in the magnitude and timing of these changes pro- vide a set...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 275–299.
Published: 01 May 2005
... Demography, Volume 42-Number 2, May 2005 equality speed or slow with the transition to a rapid-growth economy? Finally, is there evidence that costs introduced in the period of reforms disproportionately affected deci- sions about girls' schooling? Answers to these questions illuminate the modernization...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1979–1999.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., because social data are traditionally gathered using surveys, we do not have a clear understanding of the speed at which behaviors and attitudes change or the sorts of social factors that influence this change. With sources of digital traces such as social media sites, however, we are able to not only...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 561–573.
Published: 01 June 1968
... to reducetheir population growth rate to 1.9 percentby the . end of 1970(489-11-580-649 52OO 99,000 1,490,900 Philippines: Reprints and travelto regional meetings 35,000 Travel grants 25,000 Population planning: Family planning activities are being funded in the Asian Social Institute, Family Planning...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 563–585.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., its precise timing is unknown. The need to change one's schedule to travel to a funeral or help host one on short notice could impede women from attending to day-to-day matters, such as their contraceptive routine. Women covered by long-acting contraceptives would not be vulnerable to brief, death...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2337–2364.
Published: 01 December 2021
... transportation technology meant that generations separated by 500 or more miles were at least a day's journey apart, even if they had access to railroads. Over shorter distances outside the railroad network, travel by horse and stagecoach was limited to an effective speed of less than six miles per hour ( Perez...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1817–1841.
Published: 01 October 2021
... evenly the speed of fertility transitions regardless of parity. However, it is also possible that the accumulation of childcare experience among existing parents works to reduce the relative importance of proximity to family for transitions to second- and higher-order births. Moreover, the persistence...
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