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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 633–634.
Published: 01 November 1985
...S. Krishnamoorthy; P. M. Kulkarni 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1985 1985 Mathematical Logic Living Child Accurate Predictor Mortality Level Wrong Formulation References Krishnamoorthy S. ( 1979 ). Mortality level, desire for surviving son...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 635–637.
Published: 01 November 1985
.... Krishnamoorthy and Kulkarni's statement that we cannot do so is wrong, because we look at the group of mothers with n children not at an individual mother. Similarly, his second objection, that some ith children are born before the (i+ 1)th, is also wrong because we are not looking at births in one family with n...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 149–152.
Published: 01 February 1976
... the wrong sign. Our measures of income are quite different and perhaps account for the differing signs of the income coefficients. It is my belief that the demographic transition occurs in part Age Group 20-24 25-29 30-34 1960 1. 297 2.664 3.859 1970 1. 387 3.065 4.558 Percent Change +6.9 +15.1 +18.1...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 473–487.
Published: 01 November 1986
... summarily dismissed it as a delusion in Mexico City and thereafter-assuming all the time that the thesis was dreamed up by Senator James Buckley and his advisors in the summer of 1984-were certainly wrong. History's testimony suggests that there is a great deal of truth to it. But of course, history affords...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 179–183.
Published: 01 February 1990
... a sequential framework. Pullum is wrong here on two counts. The averter measure is lower because it makes sense only under a more restrictive definition of control than that employed in the CPA framework; it is a bound on a different magnitude than the one we are seeking to estimate. Pullum is wrong also...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 429–443.
Published: 01 March 1965
..., the migrant births and deaths are includ- ed in the migration rate numerators. There is nothing wrong with these pro- cedures at all, because the vital and mi- gration rates will add to the net growth rate of the population if they are given proper signs. Another way to handle the overlapping problem...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 151–166.
Published: 01 February 1974
... of society which are just about opposite the conceptions of society in South Asia, as expressed in social science 153 literature" (p. 121). Therefore the social theories of the family planners are wrong. Unless, of course, the social theories of the social science literature are wrong also, in which case...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 121–134.
Published: 01 February 1999
... 1999 1999 Census Bureau Reading Skill Literacy Skill American Statistical Association Wrong Answer References Bates , N.A. ( 1991 ). The 1990 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment: Preliminary Report of the 100-Percent Items Center for Survey Methods Research . Washington, DC...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 135–146.
Published: 01 February 1982
.... ( 1964 ). Accuracy of Methods of Preparing Postcensal Population Estimates for Local Areas . Demography , 1 , 227 – 241 . 10.2307/2060049 Zitter, M. and D. L. Word. 1971. Did Intercensal Estimates Go Wrong in the 1960s: A View from the National Level. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 665–681.
Published: 01 November 1972
... both for the country as a whole and for individual SMSA’s. The “migration elasticities” estimated for individual SMSA’s are in turn used to test several additional hypotheses concerning migrant behavior. Other similar migration studies have found “wrong” signs or insignificant coefficients on certain...
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 429–438.
Published: 01 November 1982
...), is to attempt to catch fog in a net. AID puts most of its population money into family planning and has always done so. There is nothing wrong with that; the question is whether demographic interests are provided for adequately. The demise of the Demographic Research Division in the Office of Population clouds...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 159–174.
Published: 01 May 1993
... in number of births. We formulate two dichotomous variables: number failure is coded as I if the respondent reported the last birth as unwanted, and 0 otherwise; timing failure is coded as 1 if the respondent reported that the last birth came at the wrong time, and 0 otherwise. The omitted category...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 310–330.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., then the estimate may be 100 percent wrong as a result of bias alone. More generally, we may provide that, whenever plNI ~ Ib(N) Im.x, 0 < p 1, the estimate may be classified as being sufficiently accurate. The value of p must be selected arbitrarily, in terms of the purposes for which net migration is being...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 702–709.
Published: 01 June 1968
... and an Indian father would normally declare him- self as a Malay and not Indian-this is the accept- ed meaning of race in Malaya. The use of father's race in the KAP Survey is a wrong departure from standard practice and serves no purpose other than rendering comparison with race sta- tistics from other sources...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 523–528.
Published: 01 November 1996
... with colleagues, and the lit- erature suggest the existence of knowledge, although some- what fragmented, of where and how forecasting techniques and processes go wrong. However, not much progress has been made in improving them. Possibly it is difficult to de- velop generalizations for activities...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 91–108.
Published: 01 February 2005
... compliers for what are here called switchers, and it notes that problems are created if there are many defiers, defined as individuals who switch the "wrong" way (e.g., who start smoking when the price of cigarettes rises); see Angrist et al. (1996) for a discussion. Analysis of Causal Relationships...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1911–1928.
Published: 01 October 2022
... a, treatment begins at τ=60 months of marital duration, while in panel b, treatment begins at τ=90 months. As expected, panel a shows that d d l p ( h z ) evolves with time since treatment, first rising to a peak and then declining, with d d l p ( h z ) wrong in sign...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 850–858.
Published: 01 June 1967
... the reporter of fudging. How often should the percentages fail to add up cor- rectly? How wrong are they likely to be? We investigate these questions (1) by illustrating the distribution of the sums of rounded percentages for a large collection of tables; (2) by examining the distribu- tion of sums...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 521–544.
Published: 18 November 2012
... expanded to include . 11 If we erroneously assume that the risk of mortality is the same for those with and without the disease, then our estimates of will be wrong because we are not accounting for the additional terms in the likelihood. However, we can adjust our estimate using the approximation...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 551–577.
Published: 01 November 1993
... urban elite males and females, and for males and females in Lagos. Moreover, Caldwell's (1968) analysis of a variety of surveys showed little difference between the percentage of males and of females who stated "contraception is right" or "contraception is wrong" (Table 9); among the Ghanaian elite...