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Evaluation and adjustment of vital registration data from the compulsory registration areas of Ghana
Demography (1968) 5 (1): 86–92.
Published: 01 March 1968
... References 1 B. Gil, “A Scheme of Vital Registration System for Developing Countries,” 1961. (Private circulation.) 2 Caldwell , J. C. ( 1966 ). Study of Age Misstatement Among Young Children in Ghana . Demography , III , 477 – 90 . 10.2307/2060173 3 Ghana Census Reports-All volumes...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 321–347.
Published: 01 February 2022
... mortality is distributed by detailed age. The model is based on a newly compiled database that contains under-5 mortality information by detailed age in countries with high-quality vital registration systems, covering a wide array of mortality levels and patterns. It uses a log-quadratic approach...
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in Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas With Defective Vital Records
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Published: 05 July 2018
Fig. 1 Prior distribution for vital registration coverage. Posterior distribution of the mortality rate
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1363–1388.
Published: 05 July 2018
...Fig. 1 Prior distribution for vital registration coverage. Posterior distribution of the mortality rate ...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 566–573.
Published: 01 June 1966
..., and process the records. By indicating an interest in vital registration and by making their research needs known, demographers can encourage the acceptance of new concepts and collaborate in the improvement of vital records for demographic research purposes. 14 2 2011 © Population Association...
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Demography (1980) 17 (1): 13–23.
Published: 01 February 1980
...Martin O’Connell Abstract Incompleteness in the reporting of illegitimate births in the U.S. vital registration system due to the consistent nonparticipation of a number of large States has left data published by the National Center for Health Statistics open to considerable criticism. Utilizing...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1463–1493.
Published: 18 June 2019
... the financial uncertainty that leads women and couples to delay or forgo childbearing. Combining statistical and survey data with restricted-use vital registration records, I examine how cyclical and structural changes in metropolitan-area labor markets were associated with changes in total fertility rates...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1503–1528.
Published: 24 July 2017
...Dennis M. Feehan; Mary Mahy; Matthew J. Salganik Abstract Adult death rates are a critical indicator of population health and well-being. Wealthy countries have high-quality vital registration systems, but poor countries lack this infrastructure and must rely on estimates that are often problematic...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 411–420.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Radheshyam Bairagi; Muhammad Shuaib; Allan G. Hill Abstract The Preceding Birth Technique (PBT) has been proposed as a method suitable for ascertaining the prevailing level of under-2 mortality in countries without full vital registration. It is a monitoring tool rather than a method...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 443–457.
Published: 01 August 1993
... and ecclesiastical vital registration, and tax assessment rolls. The article begins with a series of bivariate analyses with cohort of mother’s birth, religion, ethnicity, and husband’s occupation determining marital fertility. The second half of the paper presents a multivariate model of the determinants...
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 513–533.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Renbao Chen; S. Philip Morgan Abstract We use vital registration data published since 1979 to update trends in the timing of first births. Two important trends are documented. First, the likelihood that childless women over age 30 will have a first birth has increased since the 1970s. This change...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 335–348.
Published: 01 August 1981
... to the previous marital statuses of spouse and bride or groom. Remarriage rates by sex and previous marital status are estimated using vital registration data in combination with census information; there are 47 countries that have such data. The results of the analyses indicate that there are a number of general...
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Demography (1979) 16 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Samuel H. Preston; John McDonald Abstract The proportion of marriages that end in divorce can be estimated from vital registration or from census data. The former source suggests considerably higher levels of divorce than does the latter. A new series, combining the two sources, is presented...
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 311–331.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Michael R. Haines Abstract Given the lack of information on mortality in the nineteenth century United States, it seems appropriate to apply techniques which have been created for mortality estimation for developing nations with inadequate vital registration data, to the historical American...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 363–373.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., for the degree of industrialization in urbanareas is rarely taken into account. Two hypotheses are tested based upon Mexican census and vital registration data for 1940–60: (a) urban fertility is inversely related to the proportion of the urban population employed in the secondary sector of the economy and (b...
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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 247–259.
Published: 01 May 1971
...Geraldine M. Spencer Abstract Using published data from the Australian vital registration and census systems, several time series are compiled: crude birth rates from the 1860s; fertility rates from the 1880s; age-specific and parity-specific measures from the 191Os; cumulative fertility measures...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 105–117.
Published: 01 February 1974
...John D. Early Abstract This article examines the Guatemalan census enumeration for 1950 and 1964 and the vital registration from 1945 to 1969. The examination reveals an inconsistency in the ethnic reporting of Ladino and Maya between the two systems. The evidence indicates census misclassification...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
...Stéphane Helleringer; Gilles Pison; Almamy M. Kanté; Géraldine Duthé; Armelle Andro Abstract Estimates of adult mortality in countries with limited vital registration (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa) are often derived from information about the survival of a respondent’s siblings. We evaluated...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 374–387.
Published: 01 March 1967
... depending upon the stage of implementation by March, 1967. Essential elements of the project for each unit are: (1) continuous registration of vital events by a paid part-time local enumerator, (2) a six-month household survey to detect births and deaths which occurred during the previous six months, and (3...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 02 November 2018
... of death and his shadow: Long-run impacts of early life pneumonia exposure (IZA Discussion Paper No. 6041). Bonn, Germany : Institute for the Study of Labor . Cassedy , J. H. ( 1965 ). The registration area and American vital statistics: Development of a health research resource, 1885–1915...
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