Performance-based measures of physical function as mortality predictors: Incremental value beyond self-reports [0.03%]
基于表现的体能测量作为死亡率预测指标：超越自我报告的增量价值
Noreen Goldman,Dana A Glei,Luis Rosero-Bixby et al.
Noreen Goldman et al.
Background: Although previous studies have indicated that performance assessments strongly predict future survival, few have evaluated the incremental value in the presence of controls for self-reported activity and mobil...
Dispensing with marriage: Marital and partnership trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2000-2006 [0.03%]
说再见吧，婚姻：南非夸祖鲁纳塔尔省农村地区婚姻与伴侣关系变化（2000—2006）
Victoria Hosegood,Nuala McGrath,Tom Moultrie
Victoria Hosegood
This paper describes marriage and partnership patterns and trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 2000-2006. The study is based on longitudinal, population-based data collected by the Africa Centre demographic surveillance system....
THE FRAGILITY OF THE FUTURE AND THE TUG OF THE PAST: LONGEVITY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN [0.03%]
展望未来与回首过去：拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的长寿问题
Alberto Palloni,Laetícia Souza
Alberto Palloni
Background: Cohorts that will attain age 60 after 2010 in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) are beneficiaries of a massive mortality decline that began as early as 1930. The bulk of this decline is due to diff...
Why do lifespan variability trends for the young and old diverge? A perturbation analysis [0.03%]
为什么年轻人和老年人的寿命变动趋势会分化？一种扰动分析方法
Michal Engelman,Hal Caswell,Emily M Agree
Michal Engelman
Background: Variation in lifespan has followed strikingly different trends for the young and old: while total lifespan variability has decreased as life expectancy at birth has risen, the variability conditional on surviv...
Heather H Gatny,Yasamin Kusunoki,Jennifer S Barber
Heather H Gatny
Background: A substantial number of young women experience pregnancy scares - thinking they might be pregnant, and later discovering that they are not. Although pregnancy scares are distressing events, little is known abo...
Glenn Firebaugh,Francesco Acciai,Aggie J Noah et al.
Glenn Firebaugh et al.
Background: Blacks have lower life expectancy than whites in the United States. That disparity could be due to racial differences in the causes of death, with blacks being more likely to die of causes that affect the youn...
Adrian E Raftery,Nevena Lalic,Patrick Gerland
Adrian E Raftery
Background: The United Nations (UN) produces population projections for all countries every two years. These are used by international organizations, governments, the private sector and researchers for policy planning, fo...
Mapping the results of local statistics: Using geographically weighted regression [0.03%]
基于地理加权回归的区域统计分析结果的空间分异制图法研究
Stephen A Matthews,Tse-Chuan Yang
Stephen A Matthews
The application of geographically weighted regression (GWR) - a local spatial statistical technique used to test for spatial nonstationarity - has grown rapidly in the social, health and demographic sciences. GWR is a useful exploratory ana...
When people shed religious identity in Ireland and Austria: Evidence from censuses [0.03%]
爱尔兰和奥地利人口普查数据中的宗教认同变化趋势分析：人们放弃宗教身份了吗？
David McClendon,Conrad Hackett
David McClendon
Background: Disaffiliation from religion is an important factor behind the rapid rise in persons claiming no religious affiliation in many advanced industrial countries. Scholars typically think of disaffiliation as a lif...
Changing Patterns of Tobacco and Alcohol Co-Use by Gender in the United States, 1976-2010 [0.03%]
美国1976至2010年的烟草和酒精使用模式及其性别差异
Jonathan Daw,Kathryn M Nowotny,Jason D Boardman
Jonathan Daw
Background: Smoking is a serious health concern both globally and in the U.S. Because drinking amplifies the negative health effects of smoking, the high association of these behaviors is an additional source of populatio...