{"title":"Some observations on migration from rural areas: an evaluation of generalized inflated geometric distribution.","authors":"H L Sharma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Under certain simplifying assumptions relating to the migration process, generalized inflated geometric distribution for some observations on migration from rural areas has been evaluated. The parameters involved in the distribution are estimated by [the] maximum likelihood method. The elements of the information matrix are given for the determination of variances and covariances of the estimates. The distribution is applied to an example [for India] and provides an adequate fit to the data.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"11 1","pages":"51-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of parity progression ratios from the distribution of births by order and age of the mother.","authors":"R C Yadava, M Srivastava","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper presents a methodology for estimating parity progression ratios (the probability that a woman after delivering...any particular birth will ever proceed to the next birth), utilizing data on births tabulated by birth order and age of the mother in a particular year. This approach...does not need estimates of [gross reproductive rate] as well as the infant mortality rate but it requires knowledge of the growth rate of the population.\" The technique is illustrated with data from the 1984-1987 Pakistan Fertility Survey.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"11 1","pages":"57-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the estimates of the fecundability from interlive birth interval data.","authors":"S N Dwivedi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This study derives some probability models for all closed birth intervals and last closed birth intervals under [the] same set of assumptions. The models have been applied to some observed data taken from [India's] Varanasi Survey (1978). Models considered for analysis are presented in section two of the paper while section three deals with [the] illustration of models.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"11 1","pages":"19-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A note on Keyfitz's theorem on the mixture of population.","authors":"A K Bhattacharyya","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Keyfitz showed [that] if there are n sub groups of a population having constant exponential growth rate then the overall growth rate has positive derivative and hence it will go on increasing. But in this note we show that if the exponential growth rate is taken to be varying over time then the overall growth rate will not necessarily be increasing.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"11 1","pages":"63-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of fecundability of migrated couples in the process of rural out-migration in India.","authors":"K N Yadava, G S Yadava","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Based on a simple procedure developed by Menken (1979), the estimate of fecundability of migrated couples in the process of rural out-migration [in India] has been obtained in this paper. It is found that the estimates of fecundabilities for females of different age-groups are significantly larger than the level of fecundability estimated for non-migrated couples. Some possible explanations for observing such a large gap [are] given.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"11 1","pages":"41-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model that fits female age at first marriage in a traditional society.","authors":"D C Nath, K C Land, P K Talukdar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The female age at marriage is an important variable in the human reproduction process--especially in traditional societies in which almost all births occur within the marital context. This paper uses the Type I extreme value distribution to describe the female age at marriage pattern of a traditional society in India. A procedure to obtain maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the model is discussed. The model is found to be suitable for estimation of the observed proportion of ever married females, mean, median and model age at marriage.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"53-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of sibling size on contemporary eligible couples' family size norm.","authors":"K Krishnakumari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"A number of earlier studies have established the positive correlation that has been found between the number of children born to a family and the number of children in the husband's and wife's family. The main aim of the present study is to see whether this relationship holds true in the case of families in Trivandrum district [India]. It is also the objective of this study to verify the variations in this relationship between the first born and later born children.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some models for patterns of urbanization, migration and development.","authors":"K N Yadava, S N Kushwaha, G S Yadava","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper aims to study the pattern of urbanization and the evolution of [the] relationship between rural-urban migration and the degree of economic development taking Gross National Product...into consideration. Intercensal age-specific rural net out-migration rates are also estimated from [tabulations] of the proportion of rural population of India by age through a recently developed procedure based on generalized stable population by Stupp (1989). A comparative study is also made between [the] survival column of India with a developed nation like Japan.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"61-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A modified procedure for calculating person years of life lost.","authors":"F Ram, M Dhar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This study has proposed a modified procedure for the calculation of PYLL [person years of life lost] which takes competing risk of death into consideration. An application of the modified and old procedures to the data on ten leading causes of death in Bombay shows that the old procedure underestimates the actual PYLL in...all the causes of death under study except dysentery, pneumonia and prematurity. This study suggests tuberculosis, pneumonia, prematurity, heart disease and dysentery in males and pneumonia, prematurity, dysentery, tuberculosis and heart disease in females in that order, as the first five leading causes of death in Bombay in 1984.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22017876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors affecting fertility preference in Bangladesh: a multivariate analysis.","authors":"M A Rasul","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This study attempts to identify the correlated factors and their relative importance in explaining the total variation at individual level of family size desires [among] Bangladeshi women. Multiple linear regression is used to assess the direction and magnitude of association and the relative contribution to the variation by a set of variables. The analysis discloses the fact that number of living children seems to be the principal determinant among the variables considered in this study....\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"13-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22017874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}