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Recent stagnation in the reduction of infant mortality in India can arguably be attributed to early child bearing … with the continuation of fertility concentrated in the younger age groups. Results from the cohort component population … about 52 million less in 2050 than if the current early fertility trajectory is continued. …
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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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builds on an indirect mortality estimate from deaths only and on an estimate of rate of mortality change. Theoretical … size of population 90+ in the census 2000 of the United States. The results show a high degree of agreement between two … estimates, but the possibility of slight overestimation of males in census data cannot be completely ruled out. To facilitate …
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A sample covering 204,394 blocks from the 1990 U.S.Census permits measurement of residual heterogeneity from local area … sampling variance---especially with samples as large as the ones used in the U.S. Census Bureau's Post-Enumeration Surveys …. These findings constrain the viable estimation strategies that could be employed for local tallies in the U.S.2000 Census. …
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The 1930 population census of the former Dutch East Indies (currently Indonesia) shows for the European population a …
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registration of vital events in Bulgaria. In addition, we describe the main elements of the most recent Bulgarian census from March …
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