How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China? [0.03%]
经济措施如何遏制中国日益严重的婴儿性别比失衡问题？
Debarun Bhattacharjya,Anant Sudarshan,Shripad Tuljapurkar et al.
Debarun Bhattacharjya et al.
Fertility decline, driven by the one-child policy, and son preference have contributed to an alarming difference in the number of live male and female births in China. We present a quantitative model where people choose to sex-select becaus...
Extra-marital sexual partnerships and male friendships in rural Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维农村地区婚外性行为和男性友谊的关系研究
Shelley Clark
Shelley Clark
Extra-marital sexual partnerships (EMSPs) are a major route of HIV/AIDS transmission in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we investigate the roles of two types of male friendships - best friends and friends with whom they talk about AIDS -...
Beyond Denomination: The Relationship between Religion and Family Planning in Rural Malawi [0.03%]
超越宗派：马拉维农村地区宗教与计划生育的关系
Sara E Yeatman,Jenny Trinitapoli
Sara E Yeatman
Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the two remains poorly understood. The study presented here uses unique integrated individual and congregational level data from rural Malawi...
Estimation of multi-state life table functions and their variability from complex survey data using the SPACE Program [0.03%]
利用SPACE程序从复杂调查数据估计生命表函数及其变化性
Liming Cai,Mark D Hayward,Yasuhiko Saito et al.
Liming Cai et al.
The multistate life table (MSLT) model is an important demographic method to document life cycle processes. In this paper, we present the SPACE (Stochastic Population Analysis for Complex Events) program to estimate MSLT functions and their...
A general temporal data model and the structured population event history register [0.03%]
通用的时间数据模型和结构化的人口事件历史登记表
Samuel J Clark
Samuel J Clark
At this time there are 37 demographic surveillance system sites active in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Central America, and this number is growing continuously. These sites and other longitudinal population and health research projects gene...
Justus Benzler,Samuel J Clark
Justus Benzler
Demographic and health surveillance (DS) systems monitor and document individual and group-level processes in well-defined populations over long periods of time. The resulting data are complex and inherently temporal. Established methods of...
The implications of long term community involvement for the production and circulation of population knowledge [0.03%]
长期社区参与对人口知识的生产与传播的影响
Sangeetha Madhavan,Mark Collinson,Nicholas W Townsend et al.
Sangeetha Madhavan et al.
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 t...
Reporting on first sexual experience: The importance of interviewer-respondent interaction [0.03%]
关于初次性经历的报道：访谈者与受访者互动的重要性
Michelle Poulin
Michelle Poulin
Survey methodologists typically seek to improve data on sensitive topics by standardizing surveys and avoiding the use of human interviewers. This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare repor...
Assortative matching among same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States, 1990-2000 [0.03%]
1990至2000年期间美国同性及异性伴侣间的互补匹配模式分析
Christine R Schwartz,Nikki L Graf
Christine R Schwartz
Same-sex couples are less likely to be homogamous than different-sex couples on a variety of characteristics including race/ethnicity, age, and education. This study confirms results from previous studies which used 1990 U.S. census data an...
The Likoma Network Study: Context, data collection, and initial results [0.03%]
Likoma岛网络研究：背景、数据收集及初步结果
Stéphane Helleringer,Hans-Peter Kohler,Agnes Chimbiri et al.
Stéphane Helleringer et al.
The extent and structure of sexual networks have important consequences for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV. However, very few datasets currently exist that allow a detailed investigation of sexual networks in sub-Sa...