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PubMed1996

[The hidden family].

"Dutch society witnesses a continuous growth in the number of both singles and cohabitors. Despite this fact most young people indicate that they eventually desire to marry and to have children.... When cohabitation is not recorded or registered in a uniform manner, statistics which consider only married couples with or without children as families underestimate the de facto number of families. If both married and unmarried couples are considered as family nuclei, as recommended by the United Nations, the total formal number of families in the Netherlands has to be augmented with approximately half a million ¿hidden' families consisting of unmarried couples." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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Demographic and social profile of suicide mortality in Australia.

"In Australia, death rates from suicide of young and middle-aged men increased between the early 1970s and the early 1990s, whereas those of older men and of women declined markedly. The article identifies the possible extent of underreporting of suicides. The study then examines variations in the incidence of suicide by selected social characteristics of the population: marital status, social class and economic conditions, province of residence and country of birth. It closes by suggesting a tentative conceptual model linking social structures with levels of suicide." (SUMMARY IN ITA AND FRE)

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PubMed1996

Sex ratio at birth in China: features and influences.

The gradual increase in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) that has been recorded in China since 1980 is examined, and an attempt is made to identify the reasons for this increase. The author concludes that "such demographic variables as child-bearing age, parity and the sex of children have not determined the rising SRB since the 1980s in China. Rather, the traditional bias towards giving birth and reporting male offspring was responsible for the high SRB score and for the disparities in SRB between different socio-economic groups." The extent to which the birth of female babies is not reported is assessed, as is the extent of sex-selective abortion.

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PubMed1984

How many Samoans? An evaluation of the 1980 census count of Samoans in the United States.

"This paper reports the results of applying demographic methods, in combination with assumptions about vital rates and migration, to estimate the total Samoan population of the United States in 1980." The authors conclude that the most plausible estimate of the Samoan population in the United States in 1980 is between 46,600 and 50,800. These estimates are 10 to 17.5 percent higher than the census count.

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PubMed1985

[Re-estimation of the population by age and sex and vital rates in postwar Japan].

"In this study Japanese population by age and sex was re-estimated for the postwar years and both fertility and mortality rates were also re-estimated based on these revised populations." Using the cohort component method, the authors analyze data from seven censuses conducted between 1950 and 1980, adjusting for international migration. The revised population figures are then used to re-estimate age- and sex-specific death probabilities and to derive life table functions for the postwar years. Problems with the reliability of the census data are emphasized, in particular the under-enumeration of the total population and of specific subgroups, and the bias in offical birthrate estimates arising from the procedure for estimating mid-year populations. (summary in ENG)

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PubMed1986

The USA's bicentennial census: new directions for methodology in 1990.

"Planning is under way for the U.S.A. bicentennial census in 1990. The U.S. Census Bureau sponsored a study panel under the U.S. Committee on National Statistics to consider key aspects of methodology for the census and to recommend priority areas for research and testing. The recommendations of the Panel on Decennial Census Methodology, which are summarized in this paper, cover four main topics: adjustment of the census counts for coverage errors, methods of coverage evaluation, uses of sampling in obtaining the count, and uses of administrative records in improving the quality of selected content items."

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PubMed1986

Using administrative lists to estimate census omissions.

"We present a method for estimating omission rates from censuses. Our method is based on the merger of administrative lists, sampling from these lists, and matching against census rolls. We describe the method, present the results of a test in New York City...in 1980, and evalute the results. We compare our proposed method to other procedures for estimating omission rates."

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PubMed1986

1981 census evaluation programme in England and Wales.

The program developed to evaluate the coverage and quality of results from the 1981 census of England and Wales is described. "A post-enumeration survey was the main tool used, but for the evaluation of census coverage, this was augmented by a series of demographic checks against statistics from other administrative sources. The main conclusion from the coverage checks was that the census probably missed about 241,000 people net (about half of one per cent of the population) including some 36,000 children aged 0-4. At older ages than this, adults aged 16-44 were more likely to be missed than others and males rather more than females. Students and people out of employment were also more likely to be missed than people in employment. The quality of householders' responses to particular census questions was evaluated in a detailed post-enumeration interview survey. The results of this showed that the questions subject to most response error were those on rooms, various aspects of economic activity and the main means of travel to work."

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