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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 639–657.
Published: 01 November 1973
... OF PERU Albert M. Marckwardt World Fertility Survey, 1-2 Berner Street, London, WIP 3AG, England Abstract-A comparison is made of demographic data gathered using an experimental short interview form with that from the more traditional in-depth fertility and contraceptive KAP interview. The short form...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 537–558.
Published: 01 November 1984
... Fertility Survey, which was part of the World Fertility Survey. The method works well, except in its application to the 1975 Census where the evidence suggests considerable misreporting of age at first marriage because of the way the question was asked and coded. Results confirm that ever-married fertility...
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Lorenzo Moreno-Navarro Abstract This paper analyzes patterns of childbearing throughout the reproductive career of Latin American women, using a hazards model of birth interval life tables. Data come from five fertility surveys of the World Fertility Survey Programme. The analysis, within each...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 271–278.
Published: 01 May 1987
... in India and by World Fertility Survey data from Bangladesh and Nepal. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Eligible Woman Vital Event Fertility Estimation Fertility Survey Fertility Measure References Hanenburg, R. 1980. Current Fertility. World Fertility...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 577–595.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Anrudh K. Jain Abstract This paper investigates the structure of the relationship between female education and fertility. It is based on data published in First Country Reports of the World Fertility Surveys for eleven countries—Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Fiji, Korea...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 185–201.
Published: 01 May 1989
... employed length of the open birth interval. In an illustrative analysis of World Fertility Survey data from sub-Saharan Africa, sterility was found to be high in Cameroon, intermediate in Lesotho and Sudan, and low in Ghana and Kenya relative to an English historical population. 30 12 2010 ©...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 May 1991
... of occurrence or their age at the time of the event. The World Fertility Survey Group decided to handle the problem of poor date reporting by using a computer program to impute the missing information. This article illustrates the effect of these imputation procedures on cross-national differentials...
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Barbara Entwisle; William M. Mason; Albert I. Hermalin Abstract Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 August 1983
...Chai Bin Park Abstract This study investigates the effects of son preference on sex ratio and fertility at the family level, utilizing World Fertility Survey data for Korea, whose population is known to have a strong preference for sons and a fairly high level of contraceptive use. The sex ratio...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 659–679.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Noreen Goldman Abstract An analysis of marital histories from World Fertility Survey data in Colombia, Panama, and Peru indicates a high level of union dissolution: the probabilities of a first union ending by separation within twenty years of the onset of union equal .27, .40, and .18 in the three...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 647–653.
Published: 01 November 1984
... months of exposure can be substantially biased. Estimates offecundability for four countries in the World Fertility Survey are used to illustrate this bias. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1984 1984 Life Table Exact Date Fertility Survey Contraceptive Efficacy World...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 229–247.
Published: 01 May 1991
... satisfactory. From World Fertility Survey data for five African countries, the proportions sterile by age estimated by the individual measure and by the population estimator are almost identical. Cameroon and Kenya show substantial variation in prevalence and incidence of sterility across ethnic groups...
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 February 1983
... in Sri Lanka, thereby demonstrating that World Fertility Survey data are a valuable source for the study of child mortality. We show that life tables with covariates can be easily estimated with standard computer packages designed for analysis of contingency tables. The substantive analysis confirms...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 287–307.
Published: 01 August 1981
... on World Fertility Survey data for Sri Lanka. We develop what we believe to be an appropriate probit model and find that there are significant socioeconomic factors that influence breast-feeding, in addition to the demographic factors focused upon in the literature. Moreover, some of them have clear policy...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 615–625.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Amy Ong Tsui; Dennis P. Hogan; Jay D. Teachman; Carlos Welti-Chanes Abstract This study examines the impact of contraceptive service availability on contraceptive use in Korea, Mexico, and Bangladesh. Using World Fertility Survey Data on once-married females and their communities of residence...
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in Indirect Estimation of the Timing of First Union Dissolution With Incomplete Marriage Histories
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2023
Fig. 3 First union survival rates by marriage cohort. The data table for Fig. 3 (at t = 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25) is available in the online appendix . Source: Authors’ calculation based on World Fertility Survey data.
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in Indirect Estimation of the Timing of First Union Dissolution With Incomplete Marriage Histories
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Published: 01 April 2023
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in Indirect Estimation of the Timing of First Union Dissolution With Incomplete Marriage Histories
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2023
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 171–184.
Published: 01 May 1989
... of Contraceptive Use on Individual Intentions to Use . London : World Fertility Survey . Cicourel , A. V. ( 1974 ). Theory and Method in a Study of Argentine Fertility . New York : Wiley . Cleland , J. ( 1985 ). Marital fertility decline in developing countries: Theories and the evidence...
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Published: 26 January 2013
Fig. 1 Percentage of Mexican children living apart from fathers because of migration, divorce, nonmarital fertility, and death, 1976–2009. Percentages from 1976–1977 World Fertility Survey are drawn from Richter ( 1988 ). The estimate of children living with married mothers and migrant fathers
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