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Correction to: Perturbation Analysis of Indices of Lifespan Variability
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1585.
Published: 22 March 2018
...Alyson A. van Raalte; Hal Caswell Abstract We discovered an error in Eq. (12) (p. 1621). We apologize for any confusion that this might have caused. This equation was shown only for comparison, for readers who were familiar with life tables but not matrix notation. It was not used in any...
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 291–310.
Published: 01 February 2025
... that could also shape relationship stability, such as pregnancy scares. A pregnancy scare is when a woman suspects she has an undesired pregnancy but later discovers she is not pregnant. This experience might increase or decrease relationship stability. Drawing on data collected from young women...
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What difference would it make if cancer were eradicated? An examination of the taeuber paradox
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 411–418.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Nathan Keyfitz Abstract The immediate effect of discovering a way to cure cancer would be a reduction in the number of deaths in the United States by the number of people now dying from that cause. Within a short time, however, deaths from other causes would increase, and the net long-term effect...
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Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Dissolution: A Matter of Self-Selection?
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 437–457.
Published: 01 August 1995
... the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. We find significant heterogeneity in both cohabitation and marriage disruption, and discover evidence of self-selection into cohabitation. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Marital Dissolution Duration...
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The stable equivalent population, age composition, and Fisher’s reproductive value function
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Demography (1977) 14 (1): 77–86.
Published: 01 February 1977
... of the intrinsic growth rate. One conclusion which follows from this analysis is that, contrary to what has been discovered by others in specific examples, the reproductive value function can possess a global maximum in the first one or two years of life, provided the intrinsic rate of population growth...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1045–1070.
Published: 01 June 2022
... contributions to plasticity in outcomes. First, we use the UK Biobank ( N ∼ 408,000 in the analytic sample) and the Health and Retirement Study ( N ∼ 5,700 in the analytic sample) to compare four approaches to constructing PGSs for plasticity. The results show that widely used methods for discovering which...
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Interracial marriage: Data for Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 287–299.
Published: 01 August 1970
...Thomas P. Monahan Abstract Our knowledge of interracial marriage in the United States is fragmentary, inadequate and fraught with contradictions. A major methodological finding of this study, discovered by a comparison of statistical records for Philadelphia (1960-1962 and 1965-1966) with marriage...
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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
... (1955) and Zachariah (1962) made important mathematical contributions and attempted to evaluate the errors involved in the me of census survival rates. Eldridge (1965) discovered that, in the United States between 1950 and 1960, the use of the census survival rate method usually gave much lower...
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Age Misstatement for Young Children in Rural Bangladesh
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 447–458.
Published: 01 November 1982
... in the data. Variation in age reporting is discovered to increase monotonically with age. Systematic errors in age misstatement display modest overstatement for the first four years of life and more pronounced understatement for ages 4, 5, and 6. Age misstatement is examined for its effect on one indicator...
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Abuses of socioeconomic and demographic data: A comment on Ekanem’s study and Janowitz’s note
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 May 1975
... points in time reported for Honduras. Reported data divergent from expected values led us to check Ekanem's data with the data in the sources cited in Ekanem (1972). Surprisingly enough, we discovered a host of serious mistakes in the reported data. Conclusions based on such defective data are suspect...
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Mortality risks, sequential decisions on births, and population growth
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 485–498.
Published: 01 August 1972
... or proof of optimality is given. In the present context, optimality per se is not important; all that matters is that strategies giving good results have some- how been discovered. Note that a completely general state- ment of the problem requires the con- tinuous variation of age of parents and children...
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Erratum: “Prenatal and delivery care and childhood immunization in guatemala: Do family and community matter?”
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): i.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Anne R. Pebley; Noreen Goldman; Germán Rodríguez ERRATUM "PRENATAL AND DELIVERY CARE AND CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION IN GUATEMALA: DO FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MATTER?" ANNE R. PEBLEY, NOREEN GOLDMAN, AND GERMAN RODRIGUEZ Much to our dismay, we have discovered an error in the intraclass correlations...
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Editor’s Note
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 1943–1944.
Published: 21 November 2013
... “technology” to develop solutions to these problems. Another demographic parallel to the lethal behavior of those pushy baby owls is the long-standing challenge of identifying unique age, period, and cohort effects (APC). As you will discover as you read the following exchange, demographers have tried...
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Study of age misstatement among young children in Ghana
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 477–490.
Published: 01 June 1966
..., but below prevents the list from being much longer. it the pyramid appears to have been In all of Africa, data are provided for the eroded. whole population only in the case of Table 1 shows that in Ghana this pat- Ghana. tern is found among both the rural and It was important in Ghana to discover urban...
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Prologue: Research on the demography and economics of aging
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S1–S4.
Published: 01 March 2010
... will be discovered in this high- risk venture. Some studies seem to be best for gene ¿ nding, while others will likely bene¿ t from being able to make use of genetic associations discovered and replicated in other studies. New thinking about how the incorporation of genetic information might change social...
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Reproductive impairments in the united states, 1965–1982
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 415–430.
Published: 01 August 1985
... will not have had a chance to discover fecundity 415 416 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 22, number 3, August 1985 impairments. Unfortunately there was no direct question in the survey on whether the respondent had ever tried to become pregnant. Statistics are shown below for women who have ever had intercourse or have ever...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 179–183.
Published: 01 February 1990
... . Population Index , 54 , 691 – 713 . 10.2307/3645101 David , P. A. ( 1988 ). Cohort Parity Analysis and Fertility Transition Dynamics: What Can Be Discovered About the Diffusion of Fertility Control From a Single Fertility Census? . Stanford, CA : Stanford University . Matras , J...
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What demographers can learn from fruit fly actuarial models and biology
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 February 1997
... A. ( 1990 ). Assessing the Levels and Impact of Mortality in Crisis Situations . In J. Vallin , S. D’Souza , & A. Palloni (Eds.), Measurement and Analysis of Mortality: New Approaches . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Pennisi E. ( 1996 ). Premature Aging Gene Discovered...
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The Antecedents of Teenage Fatherhood
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 579–596.
Published: 01 November 1989
... of variables, including family background; values of parents, adolescents, and peers; and school experiences. Our interest here is in discovering whether the teen fathers' attitudes and experiences are different from Copyright © 1989 Population Association of America 579 580 Demography, Vol. 26, No.4, November...
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Census monographs on community growth and change
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 481–492.
Published: 01 August 1991
... farm residence, farming occupation, and earned income from self-employment in farming. Accordingly they created a typology of farm-related households. Employing public-use samples, they applied their method to 1970 and 1980 census data, thereby facilitating comparisons over time. They discovered...
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