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... for the average monthly wages. Such troughs almost certainly are the result of workers with less education using a rounded year of birth, and, correspondingly, such workers would tend to have lower earnings. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Verse Asian Culture Average...

..., if not most, of return migration will be in the opposite direction from that of the pre- vailing shift. 5. Because of the differential loading of return movement in dominant and re- verse streams, the age curve for rates of dominant migration has a prominent peak; that for rates of reverse migration is more...

... is associated with higher socioeconomic attain- ment, lead to the main hypothesis of this in- vestigation which, in effect, is the con- verse of Goldberg's research. Hypothesis 1: The inverse relationship between so- cioeconomic status and fertility in the Residence Background, Status, and Fertility rural...

... consider the uni- verse or a subpopulation Pit consisting of all married women of parity i in the re- productive age-group at the time of the surveyor at any instant of time denoted by t. For any specified parity i, the uni- verse Pit is likely to change in its size and composition from instant to instant...

... to currently married urban women under 34 years of age and the five selected variables. Age at first marriage is in- versely related to cumulative fertility; women who married before 15 years of age have 1.5 more children than women who married after 30 years of age. Edu- cation tends to delay marriage either...

... of the Census, 1968) found children ever born per 1,000 ever-married women in- versely related to size of place. Similarly, Tarver (1969) found an inverse relation- ship between children ever born and size of place for counties in 13 SMSA's over 100,000 population. This research has not considered the effect...

... and density of counties in a manner precisely specified by underlying theory. INTRODUCTION The size-density hypothesis states that areal sizes of territorial units vary in- versely with their density. Recent studies (Skinner, 1964; Haggett, 1965; Stephan, 1971; Stephan and Wright, 1973; Stephan and Tedrow...

... insofar as they cumu- latively determine children ever born.) When a sequential analysis is used, the experience of child mortality can be seen to affect subsequent fertility in several di- verse ways. [Williams (I 976a) discusses in detail the behavioral mechanisms which are summarized here.] Parents...

... inadequacy. These charges de- mand a response. Because LSL cite chapter and verse, we paraphrase each of their points below as a subheading, fol- lowed by our response. Limited Potential 1) The assumption that people have children to reduce un- certainty is counterintuitive. Counterintuitiveness is a staple...

... on the 1970 census of the Philippines. INTRODUCTION The own-children method of fertility es- timation is a census- or survey-based re- verse-survival technique for estimating age-specific fertility for years prior to enu- meration. The first step of the procedure is to match children to mothers within...

... of common factors in the uni- verse of content. Since these represent rather different approaches, it is prob- ably advisable for factorial ecologists to have both of them represented in their sample of factor models. Apart from the particular procedures employed in determining how many fac- tors should...

... and laws and regulations regarding com- pletion of the birth certificate can ad- versely affect the efficacy of the inferential model. Examples include the increasing practice of married women retaining the maiden name or using a combined maiden name-husband's surname as their sur- name and the general...

... Most demographic studies use 2,500 grams of birth weight and 37 weeks of gestation as cutpoints for evaluating the effects of ad- verse birth outcomes on infant mortality. We propose an alternative strategy, which relies on continuous measures of birth outcomes, identifies an optimal combination...

... of growth. A good ex- versed in the foreseeable future. In the ample is Mexico, whose revolution sixty first projection fertility remains at its years ago encouraged a structural trans- current high level; the population con- formation in the society and created con- tinues to grow quickly. In the second...

... between statistical models and descriptive rates (for a review, see Hoem, 1987). Communication between demographers versed in statistical modeling and other researchers is thus facilitated. There are several variations on the purging method. Their essential feature is the elimination of either the partial...

... that the composition of the uni- verse of mothers is different for each par- ity level. Even though one might suspect that women with large numbers of chil- dren would be selective in terms of a higher proportion breast feeding, the data do not support this hypothesis. Figure 3 shows parallel trends to that in Figure...

... on data from the social, economic, and demographic char- Moscow metropolitan area gives no sup- acteristics of the town population were port to the popular contention of an in- judged similar to those of other urban verse relation between fertility and settlements in the Moscow oblast. Manu- women's...

... 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 824 Demography, Volume 44-Number 4, November 2007 at age 22 or later; women obtaining a degree prior to age 22 are a small and highly se- lected subpopulation. Most noticeably, the trend of declining fertility among college-educated women re- versed itself...

... proportions of the labor force in agriculture. A multiple- regression analysis revealed that, taken together, the six variables correlated with level of economic development were in- versely related to fertility. We then looked at the differences be- tween actual fertility in each local area...

... if not determined by the forces that conditioned achievement and status in past periods The milieu of areas of resi- dence. communities, institutions, and amen- ities may condition the generations in di- verse ways. Studies of the determinants of age at mar- riage, as well as the consequences of age at marriage...