An integrated approach to cause-of-death analysis: cause-deleted life tables and decompositions of life expectancy [0.03%]
因果分析的综合方法：删失原因的生命表及期望寿命的分解式
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez,Samuel H Preston,Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other method examines the effect of r...
Hotspots and Coldspots: Household and village-level variation in orphanhood prevalence in rural Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维农村孤儿流行率的家庭和村庄间的差异分析
Alexander Weinreb,Patrick Gerland,Peter Fleming
Alexander Weinreb
We explore the characteristics of households and villages in which orphans are resident in two areas of Malawi. We first review pertinent themes in qualitative data collected in our research sites. Then, using spatial analysis, we show how ...
The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06: Data collection, data quality, and analysis of attrition [0.03%]
马拉维传播和观念变化项目（2004-06）：数据收集，数据质量及追踪流失分析
Philip Anglewicz,Jimi Adams,Francis Obare et al.
Philip Anglewicz et al.
In this paper we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability, an...
Jimi Adams,Jenny Trinitapoli
Jimi Adams
Scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the role religion plays in the responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we present the Malawi Religion Project (MRP), which provides data to examine the relatio...
Adeline Delavande,Hans-Peter Kohler
Adeline Delavande
In this paper we present a newly developed interactive elicitation methodology for collecting probabilistic expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we evaluate the feasibility and success o...
Overestimating HIV infection: The construction and accuracy of subjective probabilities of HIV infection in rural Malawi [0.03%]
艾滋病感染概率过高：马拉维农村地区居民的主观概率构建及其准确性
Philip Anglewicz,Hans-Peter Kohler
Philip Anglewicz
In the absence of HIV testing, how do rural Malawians assess their HIV status? In this paper, we use a unique dataset that includes respondents' HIV status as well as their subjective likelihood of HIV infection. These data show that many r...
Kenneth W Wachter
Kenneth W Wachter
Biodemography has emerged and grown over the last fifteen years, with loyal and farsighted support from its patrons. As it enters what might be called its adolescence as a field, it faces challenges along with abounding opportunities. One c...
Educational differences in all-cause mortality by marital status - Evidence from Bulgaria, Finland and the United States [0.03%]
教育差异下的婚姻状况与全因死亡率关系——保加利亚、芬兰和美国的证据
Iliana V Kohler,Pekka Martikainen,Kirsten P Smith et al.
Iliana V Kohler et al.
Using life table measures, we compare educational differentials in all-cause mortality at ages 40 to 70 in Bulgaria to those in Finland and the United States. Specifically, we assess whether the relationship between education and mortality ...
Cohabitation and children's living arrangements: New estimates from the United States [0.03%]
同居与孩子的居住安排：来自美国的新估计数据
Sheela Kennedy,Larry Bumpass
Sheela Kennedy
This paper uses the 1995 and 2002 waves of the National Survey of Family Growth to examine recent trends in cohabitation in the United States. We find increases in both the prevalence and duration of unmarried cohabitation. Cohabitation con...
Frailty modelling for adult and old age mortality: the application of a modified DeMoivre hazard function to sex differentials in mortality [0.03%]
成人和老年人口死亡率的脆弱性模型：对DeMoivre危险函数修正版本在性别差异中的应用
H P Kohler,I Kohler
H P Kohler
Unobserved differences in individual's susceptibility to death are an important aspect in the analysis of contemporary mortality patterns. However, observed mortality rates at adult ages, which are usually well described by a Gompertz curve...