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Demographic Dividend or Demographic Threat in Pakistan? [PDF]

open access: yesThe Pakistan Development Review, 2007
Population growth and size have remained the focus of debate for centuries but the recent demographic transition in developing countries has made social scientists take note of the changing age structure of the population as well. As a result of declining population growth and consequent changes in age structure, the proportion of working-age ...
Durr-e-Nayab
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Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2021
Background In the absence of medical treatment and vaccination, individual behaviours are key to curbing the spread of COVID-19. Here we describe efforts to collect attitudinal and behavioural data and disseminate insights to increase situational ...
Daniela Perrotta   +6 more
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The demography of COVID-19 deaths database, a gateway to well-documented international data

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) mortality Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) Death counts Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens • Covid-19 deaths Sample Characteristic - Environment Country Sample Characteristic - Location Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Arianna Caporali   +14 more
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Formation of the youth’s social memory in the Eurasian integration states-participants

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2021
In the past thirty years, social memory of the Eurasian youth has been influenced by many actors of the commerative space, who often pursue their own goals in the struggle to legitimize the new political order and their policies of the radical economic ...
G. I. Osadchaya   +3 more
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The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space

open access: yesScientific Data, 2021
Measurement(s) mortality Technology Type(s) digital curation Factor Type(s) temporal interval • age • country Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens • Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus Machine-accessible metadata file ...
Dmitri A. Jdanov   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Family Complexity on the Risk of Developmental Delay and Socio-Emotional Difficulties in Early Childhood

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
The aim of this research is to examine how developmental progress and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood are influenced by family complexity, and how socioeconomic status (SES) and interparental conflict influence these effects.
Judit Monostori   +2 more
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Russian student family: Determinants of marriage

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2023
The birth rate reducing to the level that does not ensure even the simple reproduction of the population, which leads to problems in the economy and social sphere and to migration crises, is a challenge for many developed countries.
T. K. Rostovskaya   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A multistate model to project elderly disability in case of limited data

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2015
Background: Prevalence of disability depends on when a person becomes disabled (disability incidence) and when he or she dies (mortality). Multistate projection models can take into account both underlying processes of disability prevalence.
Nicole Van der Gaag   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic Cultures and Demographic Skepticism

open access: yesReview of Philosophy and Psychology, 2022
AbstractThe social sciences often explain behavioral differences by appealing to membership in distinct cultural groups. This work uses the concepts of “cultures” and “cultural groups” like any other demographic category (e.g. “gender”, “socioeconomic status”).
openaire   +2 more sources

The Gompertz force of mortality in terms of the modal age at death

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2015
Background: The Gompertz force of mortality (hazard function) is usually expressed in terms of a, the initial level of mortality, and b, the rate at which mortality increases with age.
Trifon I. Missov   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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