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An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality

Assche, FFF1Simona NNN1Bignami-Van; NNN2Reniers, FFF2Georges - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 2, pp. 31-76

regarding family size, family planning, and HIV/AIDS in, respectively, rural Kenya and Malawi. We investigate three sources of …

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Change and instability

NNN1Weinreb, FFF1Alexander A. - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 12, pp. 373-396

This article examines changes in network structure using data on conversational networks from the 1998 and 2001 rounds of the Malawi Diffusion and Ideation Change project. The principal aims are to show that network structure can change significantly in relatively short periods - in particular...

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Convergences and divergences in mortality

NNN1Vallin, FFF1Jacques; NNN2Meslé, FFF2France - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 2, pp. 11-44

Abdel Omran's 1971 theory of "Epidemiologic Transition" was the first attempt to account for the extraordinary advances in health care made in industrialized countries since the 18th century. In the framework of the Demographic Transition, it implied a general convergence of life expectancies...

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Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe

NNN1Meslé, FFF1France - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 3, pp. 45-70

While, during several decades, unfavourable trends in mortality were quite similar in Central Europe and in the former USSR, in the most recent years, these two parts of Europe are diverging. In most Central European countries, life expectancy is now increasing mainly thanks to a decline in...

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How do we know we need to control for selectivity?

NNN1Watkins, FFF1Susan; NNN2Warriner, FFF2Ina - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 4, pp. 109-142

In the previous two decades there has been considerable progress in recognizing biases due to selectivity that are associated with the use of observational data to make causal inferences and in developing models to control for these biases statistically. Often there is a difference between...

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"Moving" and Marrying

NNN1Bracher, FFF1Michael; NNN2Santow, FFF2Gigi; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 7, pp. 207-246

We use a microsimulation model to estimate the proportions of rural Malawian brides and grooms who are already HIV … Project, which was conducted in three areas of rural Malawi in 2001. We estimate that HIV infection is present in between 13 … and 20 per cent of couples. Although young women are more likely to be HIV positive than men of the same age, as a result …

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Introduction to "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa"

NNN1Watkins, FFF1Susan; NNN2Behrman, FFF2Jere R.; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 1, pp. 1-30

This paper introduces a set of papers presented at the conference "Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural … relevant for the study of HIV/AIDS in rural Africa. The aim of this volume is to provide these results to a wider audience …. Although the topics covered are diverse, ranging from methodological issues in the study of HIV/AIDS such as sample attrition …

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An Illustration of the Problems Caused by Incomplete Education Histories in Fertility Analyses

NNN1Kravdal, FFF1Øystein - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 6, pp. 135-154

When assessing the importance of education for fertility, one should ideally use complete education histories. Unfortunately, such data are often not available. It is illustrated here, using register data for Norwegian women born in 1969, that inclusion of educational level at the latest age...

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Childbearing Developments in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the 1970s to the 1990s: A Comparison

NNN1Andersson, FFF1Gunnar - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 3 (2004) 7, pp. 155-176

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative overview of recent trends and patterns in childbearing in the three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We use indexes produced by applying event-history techniques to register data of the three countries in order to describe...

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Progress in health care, progress in health?

NNN1Nolte, FFF1Ellen; NNN2McKee, FFF2Martin; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 6, pp. 139-162

This paper examines the potential impact of changes in medical care on changing population health in Lithuania, Hungary and Romania, with west Germany included for comparison. We used the concept of deaths from certain causes that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective health...

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