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tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … childbearing and mean age at death, but also note some important distinctions. I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help …
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This article reviews the position of the population of the Netherlands in the context of the demographic characteristics of the other seventeen major Western European countries. It attempts to show the ways in which the population of the Netherlands is part of the European mainstream and where...
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Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data. Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process. We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System...
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Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …
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During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies … women and men and for Swedish- and foreign-born people in Sweden. We use a combination of Labor Force Survey data on …
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determinants of these events are analysed multivariately using longitudinal data on couples from population registers in Sweden …
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by Andersson (2000) and B. Hoem (2000). Both of them found pro-cyclical patterns of fertility in Sweden during the 1980s …
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This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is … ultimate fertility, and educational groups with much childlessness have relatively low ultimate fertility. In particular, women …
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