{"title":"An integrated path analysis approach to study the variation in the age of female nuptiality of Orissa.","authors":"P K Tripathy, I S Rao, P N Pradhan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In this article an attempt is made to study the effect of various socio-economic and demographic factors on the variation of the age at marriage of the females from one district to another district in Orissa [India]. Hence the study has been performed at state level by considering various districts as separate units of variation. For comparison, this work has been studied in three different situations of Orissa, namely, rural, urban and rural-urban combined.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"31-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22017875","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":"Breast-feeding in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India: differentials and determinants.","authors":"S Mukherjee, K K Singh, B N Bhattacharya","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"25-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015109","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":"Household structure and family pattern of a traditional society.","authors":"D C Nath, P K Talukdar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In this paper, [the] main aim is to examine the household structure and family units of a scheduled caste population--a traditional society of India--with the help of survey data. Data [are] from a socio-demographic survey [of a] scheduled caste population residing in the rural areas of Assam.\" Information is provided on types of households and family units; residence pattern and household structure; and household size.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"61-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015111","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":"Derivations of complex roots of a stable model for a special distribution of net maternity rates: an alternative method.","authors":"S Mitra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Several mathematical models representing the age distribution of net maternity rate p(x) have...tried in the past [to] generate estimates of the parameters of a stable population model.... In an earlier paper, Mitra and Levin (1990) experimented with a generalized model.... Among other things, that model generated a pair of nonlinear equations from which the intrinsic roots, real as well as complex, had to be solved. The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative method of solving the same pair of equations which reveals another set of interesting features characteristic of this different approach.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015107","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 probability models describing the variation in the number of out-migration at micro level.","authors":"H L Sharma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Under certain simplifying assumptions, some probability models describing the variation in...out-migration at [the] micro level...are developed. The parameters involved in the models are estimated with the help of method of moments.... The maximum likelihood estimates are also derived along with their asymptotic variances and covariances. The results are illustrated using an example involving demographic data [for India].\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"43-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015110","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 probability model for out-migration.","authors":"V P Ojha, H Pandey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In this paper an attempt is made to describe the probability model of the total number of migrants [at the household level]. The suitability of the model is tested through observed data [for India].\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"75-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015112","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 estimating current levels of fertility and child mortality from the data on open birth interval and survival status of the last child.","authors":"K B Pathak, A Pandey, U S Mishra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"15-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015108","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 influencing sema-natal mortality.","authors":"K S Shah","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the crude impact of the factors: birth weight, maternal age, gravida and sex on sema-natal mortality [defined by the author as mortality occurring within the first seven days of life], on the one hand, and the relative effect of each of these factors individually, in the absence of the influence of other factors, on the other hand. For this study, data are collected from the case card records of mothers registered for delivery, during the period 1978-80 in Anand Municipal Hospital, Anand (India).... Out of [3,050] live births, 99 are found to have ended in deaths within seven days of their birth.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"9 1-2","pages":"83-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015113","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 comparative study of the life tables of Assam, Kerala and India, 1980.","authors":"D C Nath, L Choudhury","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors construct \"life tables for Assam...using the Sample Registration System data of 1980 [and applying] Greville's method of constructing abridged life tables. These tables are compared with those of Kerala and India. Brass' two parameter logit system [when] fitted to survivors shows that risk of mortality of Kerala females, is much lower than that of India and Assam.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"8 2","pages":"143-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015131","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 quality of age-sex data (1951-1989) of Bangladesh.","authors":"M N Islam, M M Rahman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"8 2","pages":"133-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22015130","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}