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hardships faced by populations. According to official statistics, in 1999-2000 population size was about 5.4 millions in Georgia … in population, corrections are made for under-registration of deaths. Hospital statistics is used for infant deaths and …
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European countries are experiencing population decline and the tacit assumption in most analyses is that the decline … may have detrimental welfare effects. In this paper we use a survey among the population in the Netherlands to discover … whether population decline is always met with fear. A number of results stand out: population size preferences differ by …
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. We draw upon a population-based sample of ever-married women to explore this unexpected finding. Our data show that in …
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. Family planning methods in the context of international development interventions are interpreted and understood as part of … light on questions of local level dissemination of population knowledge(s) and shaping of identities. The findings suggest …
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In this paper I explore the relationship between population and housing. I argue that this relationship is two …-sided. On the one hand, the size of a population, and particularly the number of households, determines the demand for housing …
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This paper, using data from the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey and a range of time-varying district-level contextual information derived from the 1986 and 1996 censuses of Iran, applies a discrete time hazard model to study ethnic differences in women’s transition to first...
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It has long been recognized that the patterns of growth play an important role in the evolution of age trajectories of fertility and mortality (Williams, 1957). Life history studies would benefit from a better understanding of strategies and mechanisms of growth, but still no comparative...
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