Mark C. Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Joseph Molitoris, Aisha Dasgupta
{"title":"A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach","authors":"Mark C. Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Joseph Molitoris, Aisha Dasgupta","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.31","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa has been slower than in other regions, with the periods of extremely slow transitions frequently described as stalled. Lack of investment in family planning programs has been proposed as a key contributing factor. However, while there is a large literature on fertility transition stalls, similar phenomena in contraceptive prevalence trends have received less attention. OBJECTIVE We propose a probabilistic method for detecting plateaus in modern contraceptive prevalence (MCP) and in demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods (DS).","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark C. Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Joseph Molitoris, Aisha Dasgupta
{"title":"A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach","authors":"Mark C. Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Joseph Molitoris, Aisha Dasgupta","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.31","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa has been slower than in other regions, with the periods of extremely slow transitions frequently described as stalled. Lack of investment in family planning programs has been proposed as a key contributing factor. However, while there is a large literature on fertility transition stalls, similar phenomena in contraceptive prevalence trends have received less attention. OBJECTIVE We propose a probabilistic method for detecting plateaus in modern contraceptive prevalence (MCP) and in demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods (DS).","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141017407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The intergenerational transmission of migration capital: The role of family migration history and lived migration experiences","authors":"Aude Bernard, Francisco Perales","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140652663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenny Kam Kuen Mok, Chong It Tan, Jinhui Zhang, Yanlin Shi
{"title":"Mortality modelling with arrival of additional year of mortality data: Calibration and forecasting","authors":"Kenny Kam Kuen Mok, Chong It Tan, Jinhui Zhang, Yanlin Shi","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140654634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ø. Kravdal, J. Wörn, Rannveig Hart, Bjørn-Atle Reme
{"title":"The influence of parental cancer on the mental health of children and young adults: Evidence from Norwegian register data on healthcare consultations","authors":"Ø. Kravdal, J. Wörn, Rannveig Hart, Bjørn-Atle Reme","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.27","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine how parental cancer affects the mental health of offspring aged 6–30, and age variations in this effect. METHODS Individual fixed-effects models were estimated from register data covering the entire Norwegian population in 2010–2018. The outcome variable was whether the individual (offspring) had at least one consultation within a year with a general practitioner (GP) or specialist where a mental health diagnosis or symptom was reported.","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140720461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyungmin Cha, Mateo Farina, Chi-Tsun Chiu, Mark D. Hayward
{"title":"The importance of education for understanding variability of dementia onset in the United States","authors":"Hyungmin Cha, Mateo Farina, Chi-Tsun Chiu, Mark D. Hayward","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.26","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND Greater levels of education are associated with lower risk of dementia, but less is known about how education is also associated with the compression of dementia incidence. OBJECTIVE We extend the literature on morbidity compression by evaluating whether increased levels of education are associated with greater dementia compression. We evaluate these patterns across race and gender groups.","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140724127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of correcting for health-related survey non-response when estimating health expectancies: Evidence from The HUNT Study","authors":"Fred Schroyen","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140739990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How lifespan and life years lost equate to unity","authors":"Annette Baudisch, J. Aburto","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.24","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND Life expectancy at birth ( e 0 ), life years lost at death ( e † ), and lifetable entropy ( H ) are key indicators that capture average lifespan and lifespan variation. Expressions and relationships among these summary measures form the basis to analytically derive a range of formal demographic relationships, that build on each other and together help create new insights. Even though many elegant relationships are known, new ones are still to be discovered.","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140744811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age-heterogamous partnerships: Prevalence and partner differences by marital status and gender composition","authors":"Tony Silva, Christine Percheski","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.23","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVE We examine age heterogamy in the United States and its associations with other partnership characteristics following the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015. METHODS We use American Community Survey data for 2017–2021 to examine age gaps in over 3.3 million couples, differentiating by couple gender composition (man-man, man-woman, woman-woman) and marital status (cohabiting, married). We estimate the prevalence of age heterogamy and how it correlates with education, income, and race/ethnicity differences between partners.","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140747898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wen Su, Alyson A. van Raalte, J. Aburto, V. Canudas-Romo
{"title":"Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States","authors":"Wen Su, Alyson A. van Raalte, J. Aburto, V. Canudas-Romo","doi":"10.4054/demres.2024.50.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48242,"journal":{"name":"Demographic Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140369205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}