{"title":"A probability model for the number of migrants.","authors":"K N Yadava, S K Singh, U Kumar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"7 2","pages":"83-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22027455","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":"Heterogeneous risk models.","authors":"C M Suchindran","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper briefly reviews the heterogeneous risk models in demography. With a specific model, it is shown that in a heterogeneous population, the marginal hazard need not be monotonic. Procedures described in the literature to recover individual hazards from marginal hazards without precise knowledge of structural parameters can lead to biased results. Strategies of parameter estimation and testing are discussed. The results are extended to [the] multistate life table.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012953","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":"Estimating child mortality and modelling its age pattern for India.","authors":"S G Roy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Using data [for India] on proportions of children dead...estimates of infant and child mortality are...obtained by Sullivan and Trussell modifications of [the] Brass basic method. The estimate of child survivorship function derived after logit smoothing appears to be more reliable than that obtained by the Census Actuary. The age pattern of childhood mortality is suitably modelled by [a] Weibull function defining the probability of surviving from birth to a specified age and involving two parameters of level and shape. A recently developed linearization procedure based on [a] graphical approach is adopted for estimating the parameters of the function.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"7 1","pages":"21-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012954","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":"Effect of shift in marriage age on number of children.","authors":"P Agrawal, O P Srivastava","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"7 1","pages":"53-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012901","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 probability model for number of conceptions when sterility is age dependent.","authors":"U Srivastava, K K Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"7 1","pages":"59-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012902","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":"Fertility desires in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: an application of logit model.","authors":"S M Islam","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The relationship between fertility desires and some explanatory variables, number of living children, level of education, and age of women are studied by fitting a series of logit models for two developing countries, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The model which includes the main effects of all the explanatory variables to predict the fertility desires of women is found to be the most appropriate model for Sri Lanka whereas the best fitting model for predicting fertility desires among Bangladeshi women includes the interaction of age and number of living children as well as the interaction of number of living children and education in addition to the main effects of all the explanatory variables. The single best predictor of future childbearing desires of women is found to be the number of living children, while the weakest predictor is the level of education.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"7 1","pages":"41-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012955","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 \"mortality comparisons\" by Krishnamoorthy.","authors":"S Mitra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This short note deals with Krishnamoorthy's interpretation of the cumulative values of the force of mortality function and his measure of improvement in life expectancy if everyone's life is saved once or more than once.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 2","pages":"183-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011576","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 dilemma in national population policy: evidence from Nigeria.","authors":"J A Ebigbola","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The population policies followed by the several governments of Nigeria since 1970 are discussed vis-a-vis the national development plans. The respective governments have not shown the political will to formulate policies that could be enforced to reduce fertility with the result that the population problem has become acute in the country. Even the little economic progress made has not resulted in the acceptance of contraception to a level that can produce an effective decline in fertility. Suggestions, taken into account the peculiar cultural problems of Nigeria, are made to have a successful conception control program for Nigeria.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 2","pages":"169-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011575","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 some probability models and their applications to the distribution of the number of migrants from a household.","authors":"K N Yadava, G S Yadava","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper discusses some probability models in relation to their application to the distribution of the number of migrants from a household. 2 types of distribution of migrants from a household are described here: 1) male migrants aged 15 and above and 2) total number of migrants including females and children from a household. It is found that the model proposed here fitted the several sets of observed data on the number of migrants satisfactorily well.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 2","pages":"137-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011573","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 life table measures from survey data.","authors":"K V Rao, T R Balakrishnan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 2","pages":"127-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011572","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}