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Estimates of induced abortion in urban North Carolina
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 19–29.
Published: 01 February 1970
... the technique for several years and, in this paper, are reporting some of the estimates of induced abortion in urban North Carolina using randomized response. Estimates of the proportion of women having an abortion during the past year among women 18–44 years of age are reported. For the study population...
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Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility: Evidence From North Carolina
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2151–2171.
Published: 25 July 2013
...Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat; Anna Gassman-Pines; Christina Gibson-Davis Abstract Using North Carolina data for the period 1990–2010, we estimate the effects of economic downturns on the birthrates of 15- to 19-year-olds, using county-level business closings and layoffs as a plausibly exogenous source...
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Methods for the Analysis of Mortality Risks Across Heterogeneous Small Populations: Examination of Space-Time Gradients in Cancer Mortality in North Carolina Counties 1970–75
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Demography (1981) 18 (2): 217–230.
Published: 01 May 1981
...” persons, is applied to the determination of whether a spatial west-east gradient in cancer mortality rates existed in North Carolina over the period 1970 to 1975. A significant gradient (as well as a significant temporal trend) is determined to exist in the data, though only for particular race, age...
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Effect of census errors on the measurement of net migration
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 393–415.
Published: 01 June 1966
... material. This paper is a revision of a paper read before the annual meeting ot the Population Association of America, Hotel Roosevelt, New York, New York, April 29–30, 1966. Contribution from the Departments of Sociology and Experimental Statistics, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, North...
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The Effect of Prenatal Natural Disaster Exposure on School Outcomes
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1501–1525.
Published: 06 June 2014
...Sarah C. Fuller Abstract This study looks at the impact of exposure to natural disasters during pregnancy on the educational outcomes of North Carolina children at the third grade level. A broad literature relates negative birth outcomes to poor educational performance, and a number of recent...
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Migration in the Southeast
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 532–552.
Published: 01 June 1967
... década de 1960 indica, que la tasa regional de incremento puede sobrepasar a la del resto del país, siendo particularmente rápida en las edades correspondientes a adultos jóvenes y adoleecenies. Para los propósitos deesteestudio el Sudeste incluye: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, y...
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The Vital Statistics Method of Estimating Net Migration By Age Cohorts
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 464–478.
Published: 01 June 1967
... las comparaciones por edad, entre los dos métodos CSR y VS, tanto para Carolina del Norte, cuanto para la poblacón de los Estados Unidos, incluyendo las poblaciones de Alaska, Hawai y otros territorios. Un examen superficial de esias comparaciones sugiere que el uso exclusivo del métoda de las...
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Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Research Note
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1325–1338.
Published: 01 October 2024
... 200,000 patient records from a large, public, integrated health delivery system in North Carolina (2016–2019), we assess linkages to restricted ACS microdata (2001–2017) by race and ethnicity to understand the strengths and weaknesses of EHR-derived data for describing disparities. The results...
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Life table techniques for multiple-cause mortality
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 541–564.
Published: 01 November 1976
... data from deaths occurring in 1969 in North Carolina. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Life Table Hypertensive Disease Morbid State Compete Risk Model Pattern Elimination References Bush , J. W. , Chen , M. M. , & Zaremba , J...
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On the ratio-correlation and related methods of subnational population estimation
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 443–453.
Published: 01 August 1972
... for estimating postcensal populations of North Carolina counties. DEMOGRAPHY Volume 9, Number 3 August 1972 ON THE RATIO-CORRELATION AND RELATED METHODS OF SUBNATIONAL POPULATION ESTIMATION N. Krishnan Namboodiri Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 Abstract...
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Community satisfaction, expectations of moving, and migration
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 147–167.
Published: 01 May 1977
... satisfaction and expectations to migrate is hypothesized which distinguishes four groups of decision makers. A survey in Durham, North Carolina and a unique mobility followup over eight years provide the data to test the model and the interaction. Furthermore, using various time periods for identifying...
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Labor force participation of working mothers and family formation: Some further evidence
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 273–284.
Published: 01 August 1977
...William B. Clifford; Patricia L. Tobin Abstract This paper offers additional insight and evidence on the well-documented inverse relationship between female employment and fertility. Interviews with 388 working mothers from a probability sample in Robeson County, North Carolina, provide the data...
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A New Look at the Effect of Venereal Disease on Black Fertility: The Deep South in 1940
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 679–690.
Published: 01 November 1989
... affected the relationship between venereal disease and fertility. The objective is to identify as precisely as possible the net effect of venereal disease on black fertility. The analyses are based on 395 counties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The results...
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Social determinants of low birth weight in a high-risk population
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Elwood D. Carlson Abstract Over ninety low-weight infants were born per thousand live births in South Carolina, based on 96,000 birth records from 1975 and 1979. Higher incidence of low birth weight for black infants cannot be explained away as a result of black/white differences in age...
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The effect of expansions in medicaid income eligibility on abortion
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 181–192.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Theodore Joyce; Robert Kaestner Abstract In this paper we examine the effect of expansions in Medicaid income eligibility on abortion, using individual-level data from South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The results suggest that for unmarried nonblack women with less than a high school degree...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 995–1022.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of North Carolina. NSM uses the population network revealed by data from the survey to improve the efficiency of link-tracing sampling and has been shown to substantially reduce design effects in simulated sampling. Our goals are to (1) show that it is possible to recruit a probability sample of a locally...
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View articletitled, Using Social Networks to Sample Migrants and Study the Complexity of Contemporary Immigration: An Evaluation Study
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Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1693–1715.
Published: 01 November 2016
... marriage, we matched North Carolina administrative data on nearly 800,000 first births among white and black mothers to marriage and divorce records. We found that among married births, midpregnancy-married births (our preferred term for shotgun-married births) have been relatively stable at about 10...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 873–898.
Published: 19 May 2020
... in the two capital cities. The study protocol and consent forms were approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and by the National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria in Nigeria. We specify a multicomponent error term. μ j C represents...
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View articletitled, The Examination of Diffusion Effects on Modern Contraceptive Use in Nigeria
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1547–1574.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by Grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. We also...
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View articletitled, Trajectories of Subjective Health: Testing Longitudinal Models for Self-rated Health From Adolescence to Midlife
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Adolescent Contraceptive Method Choices
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 323–335.
Published: 01 August 1990
... of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Population Center. Hanushek E. A. , & Jackson J. E. ( 1977 ). Statistical Models for Social Scientists . New York : Academic Press C. Hayes ( 1987 ). Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing...
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