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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Age-period-cohort."”.
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The Contribution of Medical Measures to The Mortality Decline in England and Wales, New Zealand and Italy: An Age-Period-Cohort Model
… basic approaches. The first, referred to as the period approach, arranges the mortality data by calendar year, while the second, the cohort approach, arranges the data by birth cohort. In the present analysis, the two approaches are combined in an age, period, cohort model to examine …
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Public Religious Participation: A Comparison Of Three Distinct Birth Cohorts
… extends the research on the relationship between cohort membership and public religious participation and individual personal involvement. Most of the research pertaining to the effects of cohort on religiosity has been devoted to comparisons between the Depression Era and Baby Boom Cohorts. This …
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Age, period, and cohort effects on trust of government in rural America.
… both former conditions. Using hierarchical age-period-cohort with cross-classified random effect modeling (HAPC-CCREM) and a span of thirty-five years of empirical data, I address the linkage between macro-level socioeconomic conditions and institutional trust. I hypothesize that rural …
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Coresidence At the Crash: The Effect of Employment, Marital Status, and Disability On Living With Your Parents
… as suggested by life course research, age, period, cohort effects must be taken into account. Together these results illustrate that the reasons for coresiding are varied, but instability in the life course is the key to understanding those reasons. Furthermore, I find prevailing norms …
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A Smoothing Model and Its Asymptotics with Applications to Health Studies and Social Research
… complex data. In this dissertation, a smoothing cohort model is considered as an effective alternative to address the identifiability problem in age-period-cohort analysis, in which multiple estimators are induced by a linear dependence of covariates: Period - Age = Cohort in the regression model …
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Literacy and education in Chile : 1940-1970 cohorts
… studies the evolution of literacy in Chile by an age-period-cohort analysis approach, using data of censuses from 1907 to 2002, capturing cohorts born as early as the 1840 decade to the cohort born in the decade of 1970. The methodology used overcomes the fact that historically the criteria to …
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Diagnostic Procedures Using Radiation and Risk of Thyroid Cancer: Causal Association or Detection Bias? An Examination of Population Cancer Trends and Data from the NYC Fire Department
… of the City of New York (FDNY) data. Using age-period-cohort analyses of SEER data (1973-2011), trends in TC incidence in the United States were decomposed into the effects of age, period and cohort in the context of changes in diagnostic procedures. Using FDNY data, the association of …
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Multicultural education & perceptions of racial inequity among White Americans: a cohort analysis
… has continually increased the exposure of newer cohorts of White Americans to diverse cultures and perspectives of social reality experienced by racial minorities. However, prior studies have neglected to empirically evaluate whether ME improved perceptions of racial inequity among White …
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Determinants of Teenage Childbearing in the United States
… empirical studies on the determinants of teenage childbearing in the United States. The first study examines the impact of educational attainment on teenage childbearing, using school entry laws as an instrument for education and a highly detailed North Carolina administrative dataset that …
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Primary Mental Health and Substance Use Service Provision by Family Physicians in British Columbia: Exploring Age, Period, and Cohort Trends from 1996-2017
… use (MHSU) services, and a perceived shortage in the supply of primary care services which in part has been related to the ageing of the family physician (FP) labour force in the province. For this thesis, we use administrative data containing billing and demographic information for FPs in …
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Changing People, Consistent Experiences: 20 Years of Change and Stability at Grand Canyon National Park 1984-2004
… offer great potential for the improvement of management, clarification of conceptual problems and the generation of new research questions previously unconsidered in the outdoor recreation literature. This study aggregates data from two representative surveys of overnight backcountry hiking …
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Epidemiological evidence that can help to improve timely diagnosis of colorectal cancer in New Zealand.
… NZ population and population strata defined by age, gender, ethnicity and diabetes status, and a model for CRC risk in individual patients referred to the secondary care. The models presented here could assist health professionals in the selection of patients for further investigation to …
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A cohort perspective of U.S. adult mortality
This dissertation advances a cohort perspective to analyze trends in racial and educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality. The project is organized around three themes. First, I emphasize that recent temporal changes in U.S. adult mortality risk are rooted in cohort forces. Unfortunately, …
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Hip Fracture Incidence and Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Sweden in Recent Decades
… to analyze whether they are attributable to cohort and/or period effects. In population-based samples of urban and rural women (n=437, age ≥50 years) and men (n=277, age ≥60 years) risk factors for hip fracture were evaluated in 1988/89 and 1998/99 as was BMD in Malmö women from 1970 to 1999 …
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An economic analysis of declining marriages in post-apartheid South Africa, 1995-2006
Survey by survey comparisons of marriage rates in nationally representative cross-sectional datasets suggest that marriages are declining in South Africa. For African South African women of working age (between 15 and 59 years) marriage rates declined from 38.7 percent in 1995 to 31.4 percent in …
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Modelling and forecasting lung cancer incidence and mortality in Saudi Arabia
… provided data on person characteristics, such as age, genderand ethnicity. These data serve as a basis for modelling the effect of gender, ethnicity, andage at diagnosis, and region on incidence and mortality. For comparison of incidence andmortality rates between region and over time, …
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Union formation and residential living arrangements among Black/African women of reproductive age in South Africa
… amongst Black/African females of reproductive age in South Africa over the period 1970-2019 and 1996-2019 respectively. Cross-sectional data, derived from multiple census enquiries, Community Surveys (CS), General Household Surveys (GHS), and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), as well as …
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Breast cancer incidence and survival trends by molecular subtypes in Scotland
… trends in incidence and survival in Scotland. Age-standardised incidence rates (ASiR) and age-specific incidence were estimated by BC subtype after imputation of molecular marker data. Joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort (APC) models were used to assess whether significant differences …