{"title":"A new method of estimating infant and child mortality from data on children ever born and children surviving.","authors":"K B Pathak, F Ram, B S Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 2","pages":"159-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011574","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":"An index of gender preference.","authors":"R Ramakumar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 1","pages":"79-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22026387","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":"Model for interlive birth interval and some social factors.","authors":"B N Bhattacharya, C M Pandey, K K Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 1","pages":"57-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22026386","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}
T R Balakrishnan, K V Rao, K J Krotki, E Lapierre-adamcyk
{"title":"Parametric versus Cox's model: an illustrative analysis of divorce in Canada.","authors":"T R Balakrishnan, K V Rao, K J Krotki, E Lapierre-adamcyk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 1","pages":"13-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22025864","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":"Family size and productivity of rural households in Nigeria.","authors":"A K Omideyi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 1","pages":"29-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22026384","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 generalized stable model with fluctuating vital rates.","authors":"S Mitra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The amenability of the stable population model to certain situations where net maternity function need not be invariant over time is exemplified by relating the changes in fertility at 2 time points by the equation m(a,t) = m(a) h(a,t)/h(t) where the form of h(t) is general and can be determined based on observed birth trajectories. Using the extended form of Easterlin's hypothesis, h(t) is taken as the reciprocal of NRR at t. The model is then applied to project NRR.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22025863","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":"An information measure and integration of immigrants.","authors":"A C Verdugo Lazo, P N Rathie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"6 1","pages":"49-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22026385","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":"Mortality comparisons.","authors":"S Krishnamoorthy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Two approaches for mortality comparisons are suggested which produce comparable results. The cumulative force of mortality has been given an interpretation useful for mortality comparisons. The method of computing the resultant total expected life span when everyone is excused from death once, twice, etc., has been presented.\" The two approaches are then applied to 1966 data for Madagascar and the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 2","pages":"89-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011664","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":"Probability distributions of number of births and their applications.","authors":"B N Bhattacharya, D C Nath","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper develops probability distributions to describe the variations in the number of live birth-conceptions to a female during a given time interval (0, To) of length To. In the derivation, the interval (0, To) is divided into 2 consecutive segments, and fertility parameters within each segment are assumed to be constant but may differ between the segments. A method of obtaining maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters is outlined. The models are applied to an observed set of data. An application of the models in the evaluation of family planning programs is illustrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 2","pages":"73-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011776","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 distribution for out-migration.","authors":"H L Sharma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Under certain simplifying assumptions, an inflated generalized Poisson distribution has been proposed to study the trends for out-migration. This distribution has been fitted to data estimating the parameters by (i) method of moments and (ii) maximum likelihood method....Asymptotic expressions for variance and covariance of the maximum likelihood estimates are obtained.\" The method is tested using data from the Rural Development and Population Growth survey undertaken in Varanasi, India, in 1978.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 2","pages":"95-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011665","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}