{"title":"Inter-generational occupational mobility and population heterogeneity: a statistical analysis.","authors":"K N Yadava, S R Singh, R B Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In the present paper an attempt is made to study the inter-generational occupational mobility in three types of developing villages [in India] that are heterogeneous in many socio-economic and other aspects. The specific objectives of this study are: (i) to study the overall occupational mobility of fathers-sons and to find out the predicted equilibrium structure, (ii) to find the waiting time (number of generations) that sons will stay in their fathers' occupational state before moving to other ones and (iii) to test the hypothesis of identical class structures in these three types of heterogeneous societies.\" The data are from a 1978 sample survey, and \"the basic simple time-homogeneous Markov Chain model by Prais (1955) is employed....\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"51-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036297","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 for ascertainment of families in segregation analysis.","authors":"H L Sharma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author suggests some probability models for the distribution of number of boys in a family and assesses the suitability of these models using previously published data. \"Also, the correlation coefficient between the number of boys and girls in a family for the same data has been determined in the case of each model.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"97-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036201","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":"Socio-economic variables influencing mean age at marriage in Karnataka and Kerala.","authors":"C P Prakasam, R B Upadhyay","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In this paper an attempt was made to study the influence of certain socio-economic variables on the male and the female age at marriage in Karnataka and Kerala [India] for the year 1971. Step-wise regression method has been used to select the predictor variables influencing mean age at marriage. The results reveal that percent female literate...and percent female in labour force...are found to influence female mean age at marriage in Kerala, while the variables for Karnataka were percent female literate..., percent male literate..., and percent urban male population....\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"81-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036300","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 for rural out-migration at household level.","authors":"S N Singh, R C Yadava, H L Sharma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Based on certain assumptions, a probability model for number of migrants has been proposed. The model involves several parameters. The estimates of some of the parameters are determined assuming that the rest are known.\" The model is applied to data from India taken from a 1978 survey of 3,514 households in villages classified as semi-urban, remote, or growth centers.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036296","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 a distribution of first birth interval with random components.","authors":"U P Singh, V K Singh, O P Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"91-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036197","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 a method of robust standardization.","authors":"P Krishnan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The need of summary measures of the incidence of a phenomenon independent of age structure (composition) and other compositional factors is noted in demographic literature. One such index is developed in this paper. A standardized index is defined as robust, if it is least sensitive [to] the age structure of the standard population. The Banerjee-Stuvel price index is shown to have this property by a computer simulation experiment.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"67-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036298","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":"Differences in infant mortality and their implications for policy.","authors":"S Rao, A P Desai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This note tries to identify a few social and environmental factors that explain variation in infant mortality among some of the developing and developed countries of the world. Using the data of the Population Reference Bureau's World's Children Wall Chart, the authors have shown that access to drinking water supply is important as a single factor in reducing infant mortality. But adult female literacy and percentage of the labour force engaged in agriculture are more important. Female literacy has turned out to be the most crucial factor irrespective of the development status of the countries.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"3 1-2","pages":"73-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22036299","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":"Inter-state return migration in India: 1961-71.","authors":"M Sivamurthy, A S Kadi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In this paper an attempt has been made to estimate return migration from the destination state of migrants for 15 major Indian states during 1961-71 among the life-time inter-state migrants enumerated in the 1961 census. The model used for estimation is based on the procedure suggested by Zachariah (1967) for estimating return migration from two census data.\" The results indicate that of the almost 13 million interstate migrants enumerated in the 1961 census, about 4.7 million returned during the period 1961-1971. Factors affecting this return migration are considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 2","pages":"91-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011048","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":"Levels and structure of internal migration flows in India, 1971.","authors":"P S Nair","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper attempts to analyse life-time as well as period migration data in India, derived from 1971 census, through conventional techniques as well as by the log-linear modelling.\" The differences between lifetime and period migration flows are analyzed.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 2","pages":"127-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011045","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 bivariate distribution of open birth interval and open status of currently married women.","authors":"K B Pathak, V S Sastry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 2","pages":"67-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011046","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}