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Exploring respondents’ understanding and perceptions of demographic surveillance systems in Western Africa: methodological and ethical issues
Ethics Reporting back results Demographic surveillance system Communication tools Western Africa
2015/7/22
The longitudinal data collected in DSS enriched by the additional studies conducted in the same sites contribute to provide in depth insights in regarding demographic changes. However, an important is...
Fertility Transition in Nigeria:Exploring the Role of Desired Number of Children
Fertility Transition Nigeria Desired Children
2015/7/22
Reports have suggested the onset of fertility transition in Nigeria and speculations are rife about the factors driving the observed fertility changes. This study investigates if and how 'desired numb...
Exploring the population implications of male preference when the sex probabilities at birth can be altered
population sex
2014/11/27
The ‘laboratory’ is a closed, stable population with five age groups and a dynamic
process represented by a compact Leslie matrix. The new element is sex-selective
abortion. We consider nine stopp...
Exploring the population implications of male preference when the sex probabilities at birth can be altered
male preference population effects selective abortion sex ratio stopping rules
2014/11/27
Objective: The paper explores the population effects of male preference stopping rules and of alternative combinations of fertility rates and male-biased birth sex ratios.Methods: The ‘laboratory’ is ...
Reforging the Wedding Ring: Exploring a Semi-Artificial Model of Population for the United Kingdom with Gaussian process emulators
agent-based computational demography Gaussian process emulator multistate models population dynamics sensitivity analysis
2014/11/25
Background: We extend the "Wedding Ring‟ agent-based model of marriage formation to include some empirical information on the natural population change for the United Kingdom together with behav...
Old age, health and social inequality: Exploring the social patterns of mortality in 19th century northern Sweden
19th century life course old age mortality social differences in mortality Sundsvall region Sweden
2014/11/20
Background: Social position is one of the major determinants of health. Less is known about its effect in historical contexts. Previous studies have shown surprisingly small effects of social class in...
Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India
caste child health child nutrition India low birthweight neighborhood effects
2011/2/24
Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Us...
Marriage, childbearing, and migration in Kyrgyzstan: Exploring interdependencies
childbearing duration dependency Kyrgyzstan marriage migration
2010/3/1
In our study we investigate interdependencies between entry into a marital union, childbearing, and migration. We apply event-history techniques to retrospective data on women aged 18-29 from a survey...
Spousal separation, selectivity and contextual effects: exploring the relationship between international labour migration and fertility in post-Soviet Tajikistan
fertility migration multiprocess model selectivity spousal separation Tajikistan
2009/12/23
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on the impact of temporary migration on fertility in origin areas. It examines the case of male labour migration from post-Soviet Tajikistan, a signific...
Towards 2011 output geographies: Exploring the need for, and challenges involved in, maintenance of the 2001 output geographies
Towards 2011 output geographies the 2001 output geographies
2010/1/20
This article describes and presents early results from the ESRC-funded Census 2011Geog project, which aims to develop and evaluate automated procedures to maintain (split, merge or re-design) the 2001...