BACKGROUND The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has
been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity …

A demographic measure is often expressed as a deterministic or stochastic function of
multiple variables (covariates), and a general problem (the decomposition problem) is to …

This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to eurrent demographie
methods. It has been several years in preparation, beginning from occasional class …

BACKGROUND Education is positively associated with completed fertility rate (CFR) among
men in Nordic countries, but the age patterns of fertility by educational level are poorly …

In recent years, many social scientists, in dealing with data of various kinds, have attempted
to decompose the difference between two rates into effects of changes in the underlying …

Standardization and decomposition are widely used analytic techniques in population
studies for adjusting the impact of compositional factors on rates. This study demonstrates …

In Russia, the breakdown of the USSR was followed by years of a steep and profound
fertility decline. The conventional (age-based) total fertility rate (TFR) computed officially1 fell …

The aim of this study is to identify the existing capacities in improving life expectancy at birth.
So, the role of age groups and the main causes of death in provincial differences in life …

We provide a simple VBA/Excel program that decomposes by age a difference between two
values of a life-table based quantity. For example, one might want to know what are …

W. Norton Grubb is a professor in the School of Education, the University of California at
Berkeley. Robert Wilson is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the University of …