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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 389–394.
Published: 01 August 1978
...Bernard Lazerwitz Abstract High, middle, and low estimates for a rare population group, the Jewish population of the United States, are presented together with their root mean square errors. These estimates are based upon a national sample whose essential survey design features are outlined...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2000
... a constrained maximum-likelihood framework for demographic hazard modeling. As an application, we combine panel survey data and birth registration data to estimate annual birth probabilities by parity. The general fertility rate obtained from registration-system data constrains the weighted sum of parity...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 663–672.
Published: 01 November 1973
...Phillips Cutright Abstract This article reviews the methods used by Blake and Das Gupta (1972) to estimate need for contraceptive protection among single (never-married) and previously married women below the near-poverty line in 1966. More recent data than those used by Blake and Das Gupta...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 673–677.
Published: 01 November 1973
...: Is the Government Being Misled? . Science , 164 , 522 – 529 . 10.1126/science.164.3879.522 Blake , Judith , & Das Gupta , Prithwis ( 1972 ). The Fallacy of the Five Million Women: A Re-Estimate . Demography , 9 , 569 – 587 . 10.2307/2060666 Bumpass , Larry , & Westoff...
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 491–505.
Published: 01 November 1971
... adoption is obtained. One matrix is presented for adopters of IUCD, another for salpingectomy, and a third for vasectomy. These matrices are used to obtain estimates of births averted for India due to IUCDs and sterilizations performed during 1956–69. The results are compared with those that could have...
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 339–358.
Published: 01 March 1964
... Death Registration Census Count References 7 Donald Akers, “Estimates of Net Census Undercount in 1960 Using Analytical Techniques” (paper presented at the Annual Convention of American Statistical Association, Minneapolis, 1962); Ansley J. Coale, “The Population of the United States in 1950...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 204–208.
Published: 01 March 1966
...” (paper contributed to the 1965 Chicago meetings of the Population Association of America). AN ESTIMATE OF THE LONG-TERM CRUDE BIRTH RATE OF THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION OF CHINA CHIA-LIN PAN· United Nations Population Division RESUMEN Este articulo presenta una estimaci6n de la rata crudadenacimiento...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 569–587.
Published: 01 November 1972
...Judith Blake; Prithwis Das Gupta Abstract Explicit policy to control fertility in the United States to date has focussed on the “unmet need” for contraceptive services in 1966 among an estimated five million poor and near-poor women. This paper reestimates the number of women in need...
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 289–312.
Published: 01 May 1979
... 1850–1910. The two parameter system must be reduced to a one parameter system by means of estimated relationships between the parameters so that the fitting procedure can be used. The resulting model system is, however, heavily dependent on the experience of northern, industrial states, especially...
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 455–473.
Published: 01 August 1979
...Alberto Palloni Abstract The paper presents new estimates of infant mortality for Colombia and El Salvador for the years 1950–1970. These estimates are obtained by using a technique which improves on Brass’s method in that it suppresses the assumption of constant mortality and introduces instead...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1713–1737.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Monica Alexander; Leontine Alkema Abstract Accurate estimates of subnational populations are important for policy formulation and monitoring population health indicators. For example, estimates of the number of women of reproductive age are important to understand the population at risk of maternal...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 493–511.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the hypothesis that COVID-related travel restrictions reduced migrant stock relative to expected migration without such restrictions using estimates of migrants drawn from Facebook's advertising platform and dynamic panel models. We focus on four key origin countries in North and West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2377–2392.
Published: 03 December 2019
... be used to derive an estimator for tracking the digital divide in access to the Internet, an increasingly important dimension of population inequality in the modern world. We conducted a large-scale empirical test of our approach, using an online sample to estimate Internet adoption in five countries ( n...
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in The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest: Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and the Age at Leaving Home
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 1 Kernel density estimate of the distribution of the SES indicator in the full sample. An Epanechnikov kernel is used, with a bandwidth of 0.1070.
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in Is the Association Between Education and Fertility Postponement Causal? The Role of Family Background Factors
> Demography
Published: 09 January 2017
Fig. 3 Correlated factor model depicting standardized estimate of genetic ( A ) and shared environmental (C) influences on education and age at first birth, the correlation of these influences across traits, and a causal effect of education on the age at first birth. Source : TwinsUK, own
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Published: 10 May 2017
Fig. 8 The coefficients used to estimate the relationship between lung cancer mortality and mortality from other causes of death. PGW-IJE and PGW-NAS refer to Preston et al. ( 2010 ) and Preston et al. ( 2011 ). We use the coefficients estimated using German data (own estimates)
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Published: 31 December 2014
Fig. 2 IE estimates with effect coding and last categories omitted and IE estimates with lowest and highest slopes of age, period, and cohort (Berkeley Human Mortality Database). The solid line represents the (last) categories 19, 8, and 26 omitted. The dashed line indicates categories 1, 8
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in From Parent to Child? Transmission of Educational Attainment Within Immigrant Families: Methodological Considerations
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Published: 24 March 2015
Fig. 1 Example of bias when using aggregate data to estimate inheritance of education from immigrants to the second generation using the IIMMLA data. Gray represents Mexican second-generation respondents, and black represents Chinese second generation. The dotted line indicates the estimate
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in From Parent to Child? Transmission of Educational Attainment Within Immigrant Families: Methodological Considerations
> Demography
Published: 24 March 2015
Fig. 2 Example of bias when using aggregate data to estimate inheritance of education from immigrants to the second generation using the IIMMLA data. Gray represents Mexican second-generation respondents, and black represents children of native white parents. The dashed line indicates
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Published: 18 November 2012
Fig. 4 Simulation results: Bias (truth – estimate) in the unadjusted and adjusted coefficients for low education (dummy variable) in a logit model of the log odds of being diabetic for various mortality differences among the high- and low-education groups. (Values greater than 1 for the axes
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