61:10560 Bercovich,
Alicia; Madeira, Felicia. Demographic discontinuities in
Brazil and the state of Sao Paulo. [Discontinuidades demograficas
en Brasil y el estado de Sao Paulo.] Notas de Poblacion, Vol. 22, No.
59, Jun 1994. 121-53 pp. Santiago, Chile. In Spa. with sum. in Eng.
"Given the importance of information on the population age
structure when planning short, medium and long-term needs within the
different social strata, this paper is a proposal to deepen...the study
of changes in the population pyramids....Based on the most recent
methodologies a study of age discontinuities is carried out and a
method of follow-up by cohorts is suggested, taking the 15-19 and 20-24
age groups as an example. The purpose is to show that, as a...cohort
ascends in the age pyramid, new and different necessities arise and
also different responses are demanded on the part of the social
system." Data are for Brazil as a whole and for the state of Sao
Paulo.
Correspondence: A. Bercovich, Universidade Estadual
de Campinas, Nucleo de Estudos de Populacao, Caixa Postal 6166, CEP
13081 Campinas, SP, Brazil. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
61:10561 Day, Alice
T.; Day, Lincoln H. "The lay of its land". Older age
structures, environment and social change: opportunities for Australia
and the Netherlands in the 21st century. NIDI Hofstee Lecture
Series, No. 2, Jun 13, 1994. 39 pp. Netherlands Interdisciplinary
Demographic Institute [NIDI]: The Hague, Netherlands. In Eng.
"The
lecture examines various aspects of the trend toward older age
structures in the Netherlands and Australia, looking in particular at
how these evolved, the fears expressed about their social consequences,
and the undesirability (and impossibility) of 'younging' the population
by means of the only three alternatives: raising birth rates,
encouraging the immigration of young people, or speeding the demise of
seriously ill older people. Given the undesirability of the
alternatives and the corresponding necessity of ecological
sustainability and the cessation of population growth, the authors
conclude that older age structures are to be welcomed rather than
deplored. [The authors note that] as well as enabling movement toward
demographic conditions suited to today's world (i.e., low mortality, a
stable age and sex structure and a zero growth rate), older age
structures offer both the opportunity and the incentive to achieve more
'supportive' conditions--not just for the elderly, but for all age
groups--by fostering environments that encourage and maximize the
likelihood of independent activity, social interaction, and
ecologically-sustainable life styles."
Correspondence:
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Postbus 11650,
2502 AR the Hague, Netherlands. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
61:10562 Elliott,
David L. Projecting the size, composition, and areal
concentrations by race of the elderly population of substate regions
for the year 2000 using STF1A file on CD-ROM: an example from the New
York State Capital District. In: Studies in applied demography,
edited by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 13-27 pp. Bowling
Green State University, Department of Sociology, Population and Society
Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"The present paper
utilizes a method...of projecting the size and composition of the
elderly population of the New York State Capital District (NYSCD) by
county, in the year 2000 using 1990 STF1A Census data available on
CD-ROM technology along with 1980 census data in print....Findings
suggest that the aged population, itself, is aging. The total NYSCD
population aged 65+ should increase somewhat while the increase in the
over 85 age group should increase disproportionately more. There is
considerable racial segregation of the elderly. Black elderly are not
likely to be well served by services and facilities sited on the basis
of concentrations of nonblack or all elderly. The findings do not
consistently hold for all NYSCD counties."
Correspondence:
D. L. Elliott, State University of New York, Empire State College,
Center for Distance Learning, 2 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY
12866. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10563 Estonian
Interuniversity Population Research Centre (Tallinn, Estonia).
Population age structure: counties 1970-1979. [Rhavastiku
soovanuskoostis: maakonnad 1970-1979.] Eesti Rahvastikustatistika:
Seeria C/Population Statistics of Estonia: Series C, No. 3, ISBN
9985-820-10-X. 1994. xxv, 166 pp. Tallinn, Estonia. In Eng; Est.
"The volume contains Estonian regional population age structure as
of January 1 in the intercensal period 1970-1979. The data that were
available prior to this volume, population age structure of total,
urban and rural population of Estonia and the population Tallinn, have
been recalculated; the county-specific data of the intercensal period
as well as of resident population at the 1970 census are presented in
this volume for the first time."
Correspondence: Estonian
Interuniversity Population Research Centre, P.O. Box 3012, 0090
Tallinn, Estonia. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10564 Estonian
Interuniversity Population Research Centre (Tallinn, Estonia).
Population age structure: counties 1979-1989. [Rahvastiku
soovanuskoostis: maakonnad 1979-1989.] Eesti Rahvastikustatistika:
Seeria C/Population Statistics of Estonia: Series C, No. 2, ISBN
9985-820-08-8. 1994. xxv, 166 pp. Tallinn, Estonia. In Eng; Est.
"The calculation of the 1979-1989 population age structure
presented in this volume is based on the data of the censuses
delimiting the period, and the vital statistics for that period. Age
structure is calculated for urban and rural populations on county
(maakond) level, and separately for [the] five biggest cities of
Estonia."
Correspondence: Estonian Interuniversity
Population Research Centre, P.O. Box 3012, 0090 Tallinn, Estonia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10565 Gist,
Yvonne J. Aging trends--Fiji. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Vol. 8, No. 4, Oct 1993. 463-72 pp.
Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
An analysis of recent demographic
trends in Fiji is presented using data from the International Data Base
on Aging at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The focus is on the aging
of the population and its consequences. The author discusses such
issues as increases in life expectancy, the residential characteristics
of the elderly, elderly employment, marital status, and the health
status of the elderly.
Correspondence: Y. J. Gist, U.S.
Bureau of the Census, Center for International Research, Washington,
D.C. 20233-3700. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10566 Gist,
Yvonne J. Aging trends--southern Africa. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Vol. 9, No. 2, Apr 1994. 255-76 pp. Boston,
Massachusetts/Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
This is an overview
of demographic aging in the six countries of southern Africa, which are
Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. The
data are from various national and international sources that have been
combined to form the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base on
Aging. The author notes that the region has Africa's highest
percentage of older inhabitants. Other topics explored include life
expectancy and health, urban and rural population, marital status,
education, living arrangements and social support, and employment and
subsistence.
Correspondence: Y. J. Gist, U.S. Bureau of the
Census, Center for International Research, Washington, D.C.
20233-3700. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10567 Gregson,
Simon; Garnett, Geoffrey P.; Anderson, Roy M. Assessing
the potential impact of the HIV-1 epidemic on orphanhood and the
demographic structure of populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Population Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3, Nov 1994. 435-58 pp. London,
England. In Eng.
"Much of the debate on the demographic
consequences of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has so far
centred around the plausibility of population declines in areas where
[unprecedentedly] high rates of population growth have recently been in
evidence. In this article, the authors use a mathematical model, which
combines epidemiological and demographic processes, to illustrate how,
under a broad range of impacts on population growth, major changes in
demographic features, such as the extent of orphanhood within
populations, are likely to occur. At the same time, HIV epidemics are
liable to cause significant shifts in the age and sex composition of
affected populations, which may have important implications for the
ways in which they are best able to cope with the increases in
orphanhood, as well as those in infant, early childhood and adult
mortality."
Correspondence: S. Gregson, University of
Oxford, Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10568 Kumm,
Jochen; Laland, Kevin N.; Feldman, Marcus W. Gene-culture
coevolution and sex ratios: the effects of infanticide, sex-selective
abortions, sex selection, and sex-biased parental investment on the
evolution of sex ratios. Theoretical Population Biology, Vol. 46,
No. 3, Dec 1994. 249-78 pp. Orlando, Florida/Brugge, Belgium. In Eng.
"The evolutionary consequences of culturally transmitted practices
that cause differential mortality between the sexes, thereby distorting
the sex ratio (e.g., female infanticide and sex-selective abortion),
are explored using dynamic models of gene-culture coevolution. We
investigate how a preference for the sex of offspring may affect the
selection of genes distorting the primary sex ratio....We find that
when a mating pair's behavior modifies mortality rates in favor of one
sex, but does not change the number of offspring produced in the
mating, the primary sex ratio will evolve a bias against the favored
sex. However, when the total number of offspring of a mating pair is
significantly reduced as a consequence of their prejudice, the primary
sex ratio will evolve to favor the preferred
sex."
Correspondence: J. Kumm, Stanford University,
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305.
Location: Princeton University Library (SZ).
61:10569 Martin,
John F. Changing sex ratios: the history of Havasupai
fertility and its implications for human sex ratio variation.
Current Anthropology, Vol. 35, No. 3, Jun 1994. 255-80 pp. Chicago,
Illinois. In Eng.
Data concerning the Havasupai Indians of Arizona
from 1896 to 1988 are analyzed, with particular reference to factors
affecting the sex ratio at birth. The results "suggest that sex ratios
at birth may vary with birth order in a conjugal union, maternal age,
form of marriage, and political relations between the sexes. The
behavioral variable which appears to tie all these factors to sex ratio
at birth is coital frequency." They also note that because the process
that links the sex ratio at birth to fertility and mortality rates is
recursive, "the process may generate systemic historic oscillations in
the population's age/sex structure even when vital rates are
stable."
Correspondence: J. F. Martin, Arizona State
University, Department of Anthropology, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
61:10570 Martin,
Linda G.; Preston, Samuel H. Demography of aging.
ISBN 0-309-05085-5. LC 94-66697. 1994. x, 411 pp. National Academy
Press: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"This volume presents revised
versions of...nine papers, which were originally presented and
discussed at a workshop at the National Research Council in Washington,
D.C., on December 10-11, 1992. Also included as an appendix is a
letter report to the National Institute on Aging from the committee
that summarizes the committee's assessments of and recommendations for
data collection and research that emerged from the papers and
discussion." The volume "delineates the field of the demography of
aging, highlights the contributions that the demography of aging can
make to policy formulation, and summarizes what is known and promising
areas for future research in specific subfields." The geographical
focus is on the United States, with one paper on developing
countries.
Selected items will be cited in this or subsequent issues
of Population Index.
Correspondence: National Academy
Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20418.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10571 Martin,
Linda G.; Kinsella, Kevin. Research on the demography of
aging in developing countries. In: Demography of aging, edited by
Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston. 1994. 356-403 pp. National
Academy Press: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"In this chapter, we review
research on the demography of aging in developing countries in several
substantive areas, namely, basic demography, mortality and health,
family demography, population distribution and migration, and economic
activity and well-being. We conclude with a summary of data collection
and research challenges and provide an appendix that highlights the
current availability of different types of data--survey, census, vital
statistic, and ethnographic--for research on these
topics."
Correspondence: L. G. Martin, RAND, 1700 Main
Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10572 Miyajima,
Hiroshi. Japan's aging society. Japanese Economic
Studies, Vol. 21, No. 6, Winter 1993-1994. 3-23 pp. Armonk, New York.
In Eng.
This article concerns the consequences of current
demographic aging in Japan. The emphasis is on the responsibilities of
government to deal with the problems posed by an aging society and the
increasing social and economic needs of a growing number of elderly
people.
Correspondence: H. Miyajima, University of Tokyo,
Department of Economics, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Location: World Bank, Joint Bank-Fund Library, Washington,
D.C.
61:10573 Myers,
George C. Population growth and age structure:
implications and policy responses. In: European Population
Conference, 1993. Proceedings. Volume 1. 1994. 207-80 pp. UN Economic
Commission for Europe [ECE]: Geneva, Switzerland; Council of Europe:
Strasbourg, France. In Eng.
"The intent of this report is to
examine the broad consequences of two demographic aspects of
populations--their rates of growth and their age structure....Our focus
is on slow, zero or negative growth and an increasingly ageing
population structure [in Europe and North America]." The author
discusses population growth and structure, composition and
distribution, demographic aging, and age groups, including school-age,
working-age, and voting-age populations. Economic and social
implications are analyzed, and policy responses are briefly considered.
Comments by Josef Schmid are included (pp.
271-80).
Correspondence: G. C. Myers, Duke University,
Center for Demographic Studies, 2117 Campus Drive, Durham, NC
27708-0088. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10574 Paul, Bimal
K. Gender ratios in the SMAs of Bangladesh: is the gap
declining? Urban Geography, Vol. 15, No. 4, Jun 1994. 345-61 pp.
Silver Spring, Maryland. In Eng.
"This paper examines the gender
ratios of the Statistical Metropolitan Areas (SMAs) of Bangladesh for
the last intercensal period (1981-1991) and discusses the factors that
are associated with the changing gender ratios of the SMAs. The latest
population census of Bangladesh suggests that the gender ratios of its
four SMAs declined markedly during the last decade. This decline is
explained in terms of the decentralization of government
administration, initiation of rural development programs, increased
opportunities for overseas employment, and openings of employment for
rural women in the garment industries of the
SMAs."
Correspondence: B. K. Paul, Kansas State University,
Department of Geography, Dickens Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506.
Location: Princeton University Library (UES).
61:10575
Schmertmann, Carl P.; Mathews, T. J.; Nam, Charles B.
Demographic influences on the number of children at school entry
ages, with examples from three states. Review of Regional Studies,
Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall 1994. 177-94 pp. Knoxville, Tennessee. In Eng.
"This paper analyzes the effects of changes in fertility,
mortality, and net migration patterns on the growth of school entry-age
populations in three states (Florida, South Carolina, and West
Virginia) over the period 1950-1990. Fertility changes have had the
largest influence on growth of these young populations, as common sense
suggests. Changing migration patterns have been quite important,
however, in explaining intertemporal and interspatial variations in
growth rates."
Correspondence: C. P. Schmertmann, Florida
State University, Department of Economics, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2045.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
61:10576
Schmittroth, Linda. Statistical record of
children. ISBN 0-8103-9196-1. 1994. xxxiv, 983 pp. Gale Research:
Detroit, Michigan/London, England. In Eng.
This book contains "a
compilation of easy-to-use statistical data on...topics relating to
children [in the United States], gathered from a multitude of sources.
Included are hard-to-get census data and data from nongovernment
sources, both published and unpublished...." It includes chapters on
general population; vital statistics; education; health, nutrition, and
medical care; child care; income and expenditures; crimes,
misdemeanors, and violence; domestic life; sports and recreation; and
international comparisons.
Correspondence: Gale Research,
835 Penobscot Building, Detroit, MI 48226-4094. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10577 Srinivasan,
K. Sex ratios: what they hide and what they reveal.
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 29, No. 51-52, Dec 17-24, 1994.
3,233-4 pp. Bombay, India. In Eng.
The author analyzes Indian
census data on the country's sex ratio and concludes that "the
widespread large decline in the sex ratios in the country in the last
decade in the context of an increasing trend in female life expectancy
and such other factors raises the question of whether there was large
scale under-enumeration of females in the 1991
Census."
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
61:10578 United
Nations. Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy
Analysis. Population Division (New York, New York). The
sex and age distribution of the world populations. The 1994
revision. No. ST/ESA/SER.A/144, Pub. Order No. E.95.XIII.2. ISBN
92-1-151274-3. 1994. ix, 858 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
This
volume presents results from the fourteenth round of global population
estimates and projections prepared by the UN Population Division. "This
report presents estimated sex and age distributions for the period
1950-1990 and projected figures, according to medium-, high-, and
low-fertility variants for 1995-2050. Data are presented for countries
with a population of at least 150,000 in 1990. The data for smaller
countries are included in the regional population totals but are not
presented separately....A magnetic tape and a set of diskettes
containing the major results of the present estimates and projections
are also available for purchase."
For the 1992 revision, see
59:30554.
Correspondence: UN Department for Economic and
Social Information and Policy Analysis, Population Division, United
Nations, New York, NY 10017. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
61:10579 Wombold,
Lynn B.; Ting, Edmond. ZIP+4 market segmentation systems:
a critique. In: Studies in applied demography, edited by K.
Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 141-9 pp. Bowling Green State
University, Department of Sociology, Population and Society Research
Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"This paper discusses the
steps necessary to develop a ZIP+4 market segmentation system [in the
United States] and provides an evaluation of the procedure, beginning
with small area data analysis and the evolution of market segmentation
systems....[The authors conclude that] ZIP Codes at any level are not
ideal units of demographic analysis."
Correspondence: L. B.
Wombold, CACI Marketing Systems, 1100 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA
22201. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10580 Tu, Edward
J.-C.; Chen, Kuanjeng. Changes in active life expectancy
in Taiwan: compression or expansion? Social Science and Medicine,
Vol. 39, No. 12, Dec 1994. 1,657-65 pp. Tarrytown, New York/Oxford,
England. In Eng.
"The 1986-1989 supplements on Elderly Living
Conditions to the Monthly Surveys of Human Resources in the Taiwan area
are used to estimate active life expectancy and to examine evidence for
a compression of disability. Unlike recent results generated in
Western countries in favour of the expansion of morbidity hypothesis,
our findings tend to support the hypothesis that declining mortality
leads to a compression of disability."
Correspondence: E.
J.-C. Tu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of
Social Science, Room 3370, Academic Complex, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon,
Hong Kong. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
61:10581 Ulizzi, L.;
Zonta, L. A. Sex ratio and selection by early mortality in
humans: fifty-year analysis in different ethnic groups. Human
Biology, Vol. 66, No. 6, Dec 1994. 1,037-48 pp. Detroit, Michigan. In
Eng.
"In this study, to better understand the covariation of the
sex ratio and time, we calculated M/F values at birth on data that
covered a period of over 50 years in representative populations of the
main human groups, namely, U.S. whites, U.S. Blacks, and Japanese.
Data on Italians, who have been extensively studied in previous
works...are presented for a comparison with U.S. whites, that is, a
Caucasian population sharing similar living conditions....Our study
also analyzes the relations between the sex ratio, the stillbirth rate,
and mortality within the first year of life....[The results indicate
that] sex-differential mortality is disappearing over time, with males
drawing a greater advantage from the improved living conditions than
females do. As a result, the 'correction' of the relatively high
values for the sex ratio in live births determined by male extra
mortality has been getting smaller over time, and nowadays the sex
ratio in 1-year-old infants is similar to that observed at
birth."
Correspondence: L. Ulizzi, Universita degli Studi
di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare,
Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10582 Ahlburg,
Dennis A. Population growth and poverty. In:
Population and development: old debates, new conclusions, edited by
Robert Cassen. 1994. 127-47 pp. Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick,
New Jersey/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"This chapter presents
estimates of the number of people in poverty (including changes over
time), identifies factors related to poverty, and evaluates the role of
population growth in determining poverty. It demonstrates that, at the
household level, additional children reduce the educational attainment
and health of other children in the household but not to a significant
extent....While it is not clear whether population growth causes
poverty in the long run or not, it is clear that high fertility leading
to a rapidly growing population will increase the number of people
living in poverty in the short run, and at least in some cases make
escape from poverty more difficult."
Correspondence: D. A.
Ahlburg, University of Minnesota, Industrial Relations Center, Carlson
School of Management, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10583 Biblarz,
Timothy J.; Raftery, Adrian E.; Bucur, Alexander. Family
structure and social mobility. Seattle Population Research Center
Working Paper, No. 94-10, Jun 1994. 38 pp. University of Washington,
Seattle Population Research Center: Seattle, Washington; Battelle
Seattle Research Center: Seattle, Washington. In Eng.
"Different
types of family structures experienced during childhood have varying
effects on [U.S.] men's socioeconomic attainment and social mobility.
Holding origin occupation constant, men from a mother-headed family
structure do as well as men from two-biological-parent families. In
contrast, there is a negative effect of other types of family
structures (e.g., father-headed, stepfamily) on socioeconomic
attainment."
Correspondence: Seattle Population Research
Center, c/o University of Washington, Center for Studies in Demography
and Ecology Library, Department of Sociology DK-40, Seattle, WA 98195.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10584 Bohare,
Ramakant; Shrivastava, D. S. Income distribution in rural
Sagar. Population Geography, Vol. 14, No. 1-2, Jun-Dec 1992. 53-6
pp. Chandigarh, India. In Eng.
"The study makes an attempt to
identify the pattern of household income distribution in rural areas,
based on the socio-economic surveys in Sagar district [in India]."
Factors affecting family income include "occupational structure,
distance from nearby urban centers and general accessibility....The
rural settlements under urban influence or with proper accessibility
have a greater percentage of high-income families. The major source of
income for over a third of the rural families of the district is
agricultural labour, while another third earns its living by other
agricultural work and the rest are either petty businessmen or are
engaged in services."
Correspondence: R. Bohare, University
of Sagar, Department of Geography, Sagar, India. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10585 Chandler,
Timothy D.; Kamo, Yoshinori; Werbel, James D. Do delays in
marriage and childbirth affect earnings? Social Science Quarterly,
Vol. 75, No. 4, Dec 1994. 838-53 pp. Austin, Texas. In Eng.
"Data
from the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households are used to
estimate the effects of delays in marriage and childbirth on wages of
married women and men....The analysis reveals that delaying marriage
significantly increases married women's wages but does not
significantly effect married men's wages, and that delaying childbirth
significantly increases married women's and men's wages. There is also
evidence that the positive wage effects of delays in marriage and
childbirth erode over time."
Correspondence: T. D.
Chandler, Louisiana State University, Department of Management, Baton
Rouge, LA 70803. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
61:10586 Dunton,
Nancy; Leon, Seth. Experimental estimates of poverty in
New York State counties. In: Studies in applied demography, edited
by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 67-80 pp. Bowling Green
State University, Department of Sociology, Population and Society
Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"The attached tables
present intercensal estimates of poverty for New York State counties.
These estimates are experimental and for review and comment. They do
not represent official state estimates of the poverty population in New
York State....These poverty estimates were developed at the request of
the New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Nutrition for the
purpose of distributing monies for the Special Supplemental Food
Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC)."
Correspondence: N. Dunton, New York State Council
on Children and Families, Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd Tower, 28th Floor,
Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10587 Ganderton,
Philip; Griffin, Peter. Impact of child quality on
earnings: the productivity-of-schooling hypothesis. Contemporary
Policy Issues, Vol. 11, No. 3, Jul 1993. 39-47 pp. Huntington Beach,
California. In Eng.
"This paper investigates the relationship
between average earnings, education (measured by years of schooling),
and rates of return to education for major racial/ethnic groups in the
United States. It considers the effect of including previously omitted
'productivity-of-schooling' (also referred to here as 'child quality')
variables. An upward-sloping average education,
rate-of-return-to-education profile exists for Hispanics, blacks, and
whites. Productivity-of-schooling (i.e., child quality)
measures--including family size, family composition, ability, and
parental inputs--significantly affect earnings and rates of return to
education."
Correspondence: P. Ganderton, University of New
Mexico, Department of Economics, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
Location: World Bank, Joint Bank-Fund Library, Washington,
D.C.
61:10588 Higgins,
Matthew D. The demographic determinants of savings,
investments and international capital flows. Pub. Order No.
DA9421953. 1994. 160 pp. University Microfilms International: Ann
Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"This dissertation addresses the
demographic determinants of national savings, the current account
balance, government consumption and other elements of national income.
It identifies the sources of demographic pressure on these variables by
studying their response to changes in national age distributions,
drawing on recently developed techniques for incorporating demographic
information into macroeconomic equations." The study was prepared as a
doctoral dissertation at Harvard
University.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 55(3).
61:10589 Huang,
Qi. The underclass and poverty concentration in New York
City for the period 1970-1980-1990. In: Studies in applied
demography, edited by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994.
385-424 pp. Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology,
Population and Society Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"This paper first defines and measures the underclass in New York
City, then analyzes its composition and growth over time....Of greater
interest than the overall numbers are the detailed local changes from
one census decade to the next. I study these changes through a
transition probability table which compares levels of underclass
behavior by census tract for different decades and determines the
pattern of changes across decades. I have also developed social
ecology maps of class, racial, and ethnic segregation of the city, and
used them to show where the underclass, middle class and upper class
actually live, how their distribution has changed over time, and how
these changes relate to population distribution....Finally, the paper
concludes by analyzing the determinants of the presence of the
underclass in New York City."
Correspondence: Q. Huang,
City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center,
Center for Social Research, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10590 Hussain,
Athar; Lanjouw, Peter; Stern, Nicholas. Income
inequalities in China: evidence from household survey data. World
Development, Vol. 22, No. 12, Dec 1994. 1,947-57 pp. Tarrytown, New
York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"On the basis of a household data
set, this paper: compares household income inequality in urban and
rural China; decomposes inequality into intra- and interprovincial
components; and analyzes the contribution of various income sources to
total income equality. The main findings of the paper are, first, that
unlike in most developing economies, income inequality in urban areas
is lower than in rural areas. Second, nationwide income inequality is
due mostly to intraprovincial inequality. Third, components of income
associated with economic reforms are more unequally distributed than
the rest."
Correspondence: A. Hussain, London School of
Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, Aldwych, London WC2A
2AE, England. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
61:10591 Lee, Ronald
D.; Miller, Timothy. Population age structure,
intergenerational transfer, and wealth. A new approach with
applications to the United States. Journal of Human Resources,
Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 1994. 1,027-63 pp. Madison, Wisconsin. In Eng.
This article concerns flows and stocks of wealth in the United
States in 1987. Specifically, "this paper has used synthetic cohort
methods to explore how resource reallocation over the life cycle
generates real wealth and transfer wealth through the family, the
public sector, and financial markets....Taking the results at face
value, however, it appears that transfer wealth in the United States is
about two-thirds as great as real wealth. Social Security wealth,
Medicare wealth, and government debt are the main positive forms of
wealth, together exceeding the value of real wealth (excluding human
capital.)"
Correspondence: R. D. Lee, University of
California, Department of Demography, 2232 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley,
CA 94720. Location: Princeton University Library (SPIA).
61:10592 Lichter,
Daniel T.; McLaughlin, Diane K. Changing economic
opportunities, family structure, and poverty in rural areas.
Population Research Institute Working Paper, No. 94-24, Sep 1994. 26,
[6] pp. Pennsylvania State University, Population Research Institute:
University Park, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
Data from the 1980 and 1990
U.S. census summary tape files are used to examine the extent and
etiology of changing spatial inequalities in rural areas. The results
indicate that "First, poverty rates increased more rapidly in nonmetro
than metro counties during the 1980s....Second, poverty rates tended to
decline in nonmetro counties with traditionally high rates of poverty
(e.g., predominantly black counties)....Third, spatial differences in
poverty rates and relative increases in county poverty rates over the
1980s were most strongly associated with women's employment and
headship status."
Correspondence: Pennsylvania State
University, Population Research Institute, 601 Oswald Tower, University
Park, PA 16802-6211. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10593 Lichter,
Daniel T.; Landale, Nancy S. Parental work, family
structure, and poverty among Latino children. Population Research
Institute Working Paper, No. 94-22, Jul 1994. 27, [6] pp. Pennsylvania
State University, Population Research Institute: University Park,
Pennsylvania. In Eng.
The authors use data from the five percent
Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1990 U.S. census to examine the
effect of parental employment and family living arrangements on poverty
among Latino children in the United States. "The results indicate that
group differences in family structure undermine efforts to eliminate
racial and ethnic inequality."
Correspondence: Pennsylvania
State University, Population Research Institute, 601 Oswald Tower,
University Park, PA 16802-6211. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10594 Rosenzweig,
Mark R.; Wolpin, Kenneth I. Parental and public transfers
to young women and their children. American Economic Review, Vol.
84, No. 5, Dec 1994. 1,195-212 pp. Nashville, Tennessee. In Eng.
"This paper presents estimates of how an increase in welfare
benefits for the welfare-eligible affects the provision of parental
support in the form of both financial transfers and shared residence
based on an overlapping-generations framework incorporating
game-theoretic interactions among parents, their adult children, and
the government. The empirical results, obtained from two longitudinal
data sets, indicate that the parents view a dollar of income earned by
their daughters as equivalent to a dollar increase in welfare benefits.
However, there exists only a small trade-off between the generosity of
government aid and the incidence of parental aid." Data are for the
United States and are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young
Women for 1968-1984 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for
1979-1984.
Correspondence: M. R. Rosenzweig, University of
Pennsylvania, Department of Economics, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6297. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
61:10595 Sundstrom,
Marianne; Stafford, Frank. Time out for childcare and
career wages of men and women. Stockholm Research Reports in
Demography, No. 85, ISBN 91-7820-090-3. Aug 1994. 32 pp. Stockholm
University, Demography Unit: Stockholm, Sweden. In Eng.
"The
purpose of our paper is to examine the earnings effects of spells away
from work or 'time out' to care for young children. We accomplish this
by using company panel data for a large multibranch company in Sweden
over the period 1983-1988."
Correspondence: Stockholm
University, Demography Unit, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10596 Thomson,
Elizabeth; Hanson, Thomas L.; McLanahan, Sara S. Family
structure and child well-being: economic resources vs. parental
behaviors. Social Forces, Vol. 73, No. 1, Sep 1994. 221-42 pp.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In Eng.
"We used data from the [U.S.]
National Survey of Families and Households to investigate economic
resources and parental behavior explanations for family structure
effects on children. The economic explanation received considerable
support in terms of single-mother disadvantage and accounted for a
smaller proportion of disadvantage associated with mother-partner
families. Parental behaviors, particularly maternal and paternal
support, accounted for much smaller proportions of disadvantages found
in mother-stepfather as well as mother-partner families. Parental
behaviors did not appear to mediate any of the economic resource
effects on children."
Correspondence: E. Thomson,
University of Wisconsin, Center for Demography and Ecology, 1180
Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10597 Astone, Nan
M.; McLanahan, Sara S. Family structure, residential
mobility, and school dropout: a research note. Demography, Vol.
31, No. 4, Nov 1994. 575-84 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"This
paper examines the hypothesis that high levels of residential mobility
among nonintact [U.S.] families account for part of the well-known
association between living in a nonintact family and dropping out of
high school. Children from single-parent families and stepfamilies are
more likely than children from two-parent families to move during the
school year. As much as 30% of the difference in the risk of dropping
out between children from stepfamilies and children from intact
families can be explained by differences in residential mobility.
Previously, mechanisms explaining school failure on the part of
children in nonintact families were more plausible for children in
single-parent families than for children in stepfamilies; high levels
of residential mobility apply to both groups of children. In addition,
residential mobility lends itself to manipulation by public policy,
with potentially remedial effects for vulnerable
children."
Correspondence: N. M. Astone, Johns Hopkins
University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of
Population Dynamics, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10598 Klepinger,
Daniel; Lundberg, Shelly; Plotnick, Robert. Adolescent
fertility and the educational attainment of young women. Seattle
Population Research Center Working Paper, No. 94-7, Jun 1994. 23 pp.
University of Washington, Seattle Population Research Center: Seattle,
Washington; Battelle Seattle Research Center: Seattle, Washington. In
Eng.
"This article presents new estimates of the relationship
between teenage childbearing and educational attainment....Because the
fertility-education relationship may vary by race and ethnicity, we
conduct separate analyses for non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic
blacks...,and Hispanics. Our data are from the [U.S.] National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)."
Correspondence:
Seattle Population Research Center, c/o University of Washington,
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Library, Department of
Sociology DK-40, Seattle, WA 98195. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10599 Manning,
Wendy D.; Lichter, Daniel T. Cohabitation and children's
economic well-being. Population Research Institute Working Paper,
No. 94-25, Sep 1994. 33, [10] pp. Pennsylvania State University,
Population Research Institute: University Park, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
"Using data from the recently released 1990 decennial [U.S.] census
Public Use Microdata Sample, we provide...national estimates of the
percentage and socioeconomic characteristics of American children
living with single parents and their unmarried partners. Our results
reveal that 2.2 million children--roughly 3.5 percent--reside in
cohabiting unions, and that racial differences are
substantial....Moreover, roughly 1 in 7 children in single-parent
families include an unmarried partner. Although these children have two
potential caretakers and economic providers, our results indicate that
parental resources (in the form of employment, education, and income)
fall well short of their counterparts in married-couple
families."
Correspondence: Pennsylvania State University,
Population Research Institute, 601 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA
16802-6211. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10600 Marr,
William; McCready, Douglas. Shelter expenditure in Canada:
do the foreign-born spend more? In: Studies in applied
demography, edited by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 307-32
pp. Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology, Population
and Society Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"This
study aims in general to bring together two important aspects of
Canada's social and economic situations in the 1980s, namely changes in
its demographic structures and changes in its expenditures on shelter.
In particular, this study relates birthplace of the head of a household
to spending on shelter in Canada....All of the data in this study come
from the 1978, 1982, 1984 and 1986 Surveys of Family Expenditures by
Statistics Canada."
Correspondence: W. Marr, Wilfrid
Laurier University, Department of Economics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5,
Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10601 Pastor,
Karol. The value of statistical data on religiosity.
[Vypovedna hodnota statistickych udajov o religiozite.] Demografie,
Vol. 36, No. 3, 1994. 173-80 pp. Prague, Czech Republic. In Cze. with
sum. in Eng; Rus.
The author assesses the value of data on
religiosity collected in the 1991 Czechoslovak census. Differences
between the Czech Republic and Slovakia are
examined.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10602 Pong,
Suet-ling. Sibling size and children's educational
attainment in Peninsular Malaysia. Population Research Institute
Working Paper, No. 94-21, Jul 1994. 31, [6] pp. Pennsylvania State
University, Population Research Institute: University Park,
Pennsylvania. In Eng.
"The study addresses three general questions:
How important is sibling size as a determinant of educational
attainment within each ethnic group? Do the effects of sibling size
change over time? Are there ethnic differences in the over time
changes of these effects?" Data are from the Second Malaysian Family
Life Survey of 1988.
Correspondence: Pennsylvania State
University, Population Research Institute, 601 Oswald Tower, University
Park, PA 16802-6211. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10603 Ribar,
David C. Teenage fertility and high school
completion. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 76, No. 3,
Aug 1994. 413-24 pp. Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Eng.
"This paper
uses 1979-85 data on women from the [U.S.] National Longitudinal Survey
of Youth to examine the economic, sociological, and institutional
antecedents of adolescent childbearing and high school completion and
to analyze the effect of early childbearing on school completion.
Fertility and school completion are modeled as dichotomous outcomes,
and their determinants are estimated using a bivariate probit
specification. The paper finds evidence that adolescent childbearing
is an endogenous determinant of high school completion and that failing
to account for this endogeneity leads to an over-estimate of the
schooling consequences of early
childbearing."
Correspondence: D. C. Ribar, Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA 16802. Location:
Princeton University Library (PF).
61:10604 Siegel,
Jacob S. The role of demographers in public and private
suits of racial discrimination in housing. In: Studies in applied
demography, edited by K. Vaninadha Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 237-51
pp. Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology, Population
and Society Research Center: Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"While I
want to concentrate on private suits of racial discrimination in
housing, my effort to elucidate this phase of a demographer's work will
be aided by a discussion of public suits as well." The geographic focus
is on the United States.
Correspondence: J. S. Siegel,
Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, D.C. 20057.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10605 Srb,
Vladimir; Andrle, Alois. Religious affiliation of the
Czech Republic's population on March 3, 1991. [Nabozenske vyznani
obyvatelstva Ceske Republiky ke 3. breznu 1991.] Demografie, Vol. 36,
No. 3, 1994. 181-8 pp. Prague, Czech Republic. In Cze. with sum. in
Eng; Rus.
The authors analyze data from the 1991 Czech census
concerning religious affiliation. They provide information on church
denomination, sex and age distribution of church members, and
characteristics of those who did not answer the religion
question.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10606 Wilmoth,
Janet M.; De Jong, Gordon F.; Himes, Christine L. Living
arrangements among elderly immigrants in the United States.
Population Research Institute Working Paper, No. 94-26, Aug 1994. 32
pp. Pennsylvania State University, Population Research Institute:
University Park, Pennsylvania. In Eng.
The living arrangements of
the immigrant elderly in the United States are analyzed using data from
the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). "Standardization reveals
that immigrants aged sixty or older upon their arrival have higher
levels of living with others and lower levels of living with a spouse
or alone than elderly who immigrated at younger ages and elderly
non-immigrants."
Correspondence: Pennsylvania State
University, Population Research Institute, 601 Oswald Tower, University
Park, PA 16802-6211. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10607 Breznik,
Dusan; Raduski, Nada. Demographic characteristics of the
population of FR Yugoslavia by nationality. Yugoslav Survey, Vol.
34, No. 4, 1993. 3-44 pp. Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In Eng.
Changes in
the ethnic composition of Yugoslavia as a whole are analyzed using data
from censuses carried out between 1948 and 1991. "The subject matter of
the analysis [was] the differences in natural movements (birth rate,
death rate, natural increase) and migrations by nationalities, as well
as marriages and divorces of people of different nationalities."
Problems concerning the various ways of identifying ethnic groups by
nationality or language are also reviewed.
Correspondence:
D. Breznik, Social Sciences Institute, Demographic Research Centre,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Location: World Bank, Joint Bank-Fund
Library, Washington, D.C.
61:10608 Census
Applications (Sydney, Australia). Birthplace, language,
religion 1971-86. Volume 4--statistical regions by birthplace,
language and religion. Pub. Order No. 91 0103 8. ISBN
0-644-13789-4. 1991. xiv, 409 pp. Bureau of Immigration Research: South
Carlton, Australia. In Eng.
This is one in "a series of five
related volumes which provides data on population numbers, rates of
change, and the birthplace, language and religion characteristics of
people in Local Government areas, statistical regions, States and
Territories of Australia. It is based on the results of the 1971,
1976, 1981 and 1986 Censuses...." This volume presents tables on the
population of each statistical region by place of birth, language, or
religion.
For related volumes, see 57:30605, 30606, and 30607, and
elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence: Bureau of
Immigration Research, P.O. Box 649, South Carlton, Victoria 3053,
Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10609 Census
Applications (Sydney, Australia). Birthplace, language,
religion, 1971-86. Volume 1--birthplace and religion by local
government areas. Pub. Order No. 91 0099 7. ISBN 0-644-13786-X.
1991. xviii, 885 pp. Bureau of Immigration Research: South Carlton,
Australia. In Eng.
This is one in "a series of five related volumes
which provides data on population numbers, rates of change and the
birthplace, language and religion characteristics of people in Local
Government areas, statistical regions, States and Territories of
Australia. It is based on the results of the 1971, 1976, 1981 and 1986
Censuses...." In this volume each table contains data on the
population of the same birthplace or religion in terms of local
government areas.
For related volumes, see 57:30605, 30606, and
30607, and elsewhere in this issue.
Correspondence: Bureau
of Immigration Research, P.O. Box 649, South Carlton, Victoria 3053,
Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10610 Dickinson,
John A.; Grabowski, Jan. The North American Indian
populations of the St. Lawrence valley, 1608-1765. [Les
populations amerindiennes de la vallee laurentienne, 1608-1765.]
Annales de Demographie Historique, 1993. 51-65 pp. Paris, France. In
Fre. with sum. in Eng.
The dynamics of the North American Indian
population of the St. Lawrence valley in Quebec, Canada, following
French colonization in the early seventeenth century are described.
Following an initial rapid population decline due to exposure to new
diseases introduced by European settlers, the native population
stabilized, and then grew through a combination of natural increase and
migration to pre-contact levels by 1675.
Correspondence: J.
A. Dickinson, Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succursale A,
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10611 Dragunskii,
Denis V. Imposed ethnicity. Sociological Research,
Vol. 33, No. 5, Sep-Oct 1994. 65-76 pp. Armonk, New York. In Eng.
The significance of ethnicity and of the definition of ethnic
groups in the successor states of the former Soviet Union is examined.
Particular attention is given to questions of ethnicity in Russia and
to the problems resulting from the arbitrary assignment of people to
one ethnic group or another.
This is a translation from the Russian
article in Politicheskie Issledovaniia, No. 5, 1993, pp. 24-30.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
61:10612 Glosar,
A. Ethnicity and geography. GeoJournal, Vol. 30, No.
3, Jul 1993. 199-364 pp. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht,
Netherlands. In Eng.
This special issue contains a selection of the
papers presented at a symposium on ethnicity and geography held in
Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 8-11, 1993.
Selected items will be
cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group,
P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, Netherlands. Location: U.S.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
61:10613 Herman,
Pini. A technique for estimating a small immigrant
population in small areas: the case of Jewish Israelis in the United
States. In: Studies in applied demography, edited by K. Vaninadha
Rao and Jerry W. Wicks. 1994. 81-99 pp. Bowling Green State University,
Department of Sociology, Population and Society Research Center:
Bowling Green, Ohio. In Eng.
"Demographers are often asked to
verify the community size of specific ethnic and nationality groups.
Invariably, large population sizes are offered for verification and
often while exact numbers cannot be estimated, some roughly logical
upper bound estimates can be developed. This paper describes the
experience of developing reasonable upper bound estimates for Jewish
Israelis [in Los Angeles, California] and with some modifications may
be used for some other selected ethnic or nationality
groups."
Correspondence: P. Herman, University of Southern
California, School of Social Work, University Park MC-RAN385, Los
Angeles, CA 90007. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10614 Hsu,
Mei-Ling. The growth of Chinese minority populations.
GeoJournal, Vol. 30, No. 3, Jul 1993. 279-82 pp. Dordrecht,
Netherlands. In Eng.
This is a review of recent demographic trends
among the 55 recognized minority ethnic groups in China, which have a
total population of 91.2 million. Reasons for the rapid growth among
many of these populations since the 1960s are analyzed. They include
"the significant improvement of public health in the 1950s and 1960s,
the leniency in the implementation of the birth control policies in
minority communities, the relatively high birth and fertility rates in
these communities, and the reaffirmation of racial identity in the
1980s."
Correspondence: M.-L. Hsu, University of Minnesota,
Department of Geography, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
61:10615 Klemencic,
Vladimir. National minorities as an element of the
demographic and spatial structure of the Alpine-Adriatic-Pannonian
region. GeoJournal, Vol. 30, No. 3, Jul 1993. 207-14 pp.
Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
"The paper discusses minorities and
their problems along borders of post [World War II] Europe and of
nation states formed in the early 1990s." The author notes that
minority populations are frequently located in peripheral, less
developed areas of the countries concerned, and in regions where the
interests of minority and majority populations
conflict.
Correspondence: V. Klemencic, University of
Ljubljana, Department of Geography, Askerceva 12, 61000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia. Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
61:10616 Luther,
Norman Y.; Gaminiratne, K. H. W.; Gray, Alan. Demographic
estimates for the aboriginal populations of three regions of Australia:
Northern Territory, South Australia and Western
Australia--1986-91. Working Papers in Demography, No. 50, 1994. 50
pp. Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences:
Canberra, Australia. In Eng.
"A consistent correction procedure is
used to determine improved, consistent estimates by sex of census age
distributions, intercensal births, and intercensal deaths and net
immigration by age of the Aboriginal populations of the Northern
Territory, South Australia and Western Australia during the period
1986-91. Undercount estimates for the censuses, registered births and
registered deaths, and life tables derived from the results show the
Aboriginal populations to have lower coverage of censuses and of vital
events and much higher death risks than the total Australian
population."
Correspondence: Australian National
University, Research School of Social Sciences, Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10617 Meyer,
Pierre-Andre. The demography of the Jews in Metz
(1740-1789). [Demographie des juifs de Metz (1740-1789).] Annales
de Demographie Historique, 1993. 127-60 pp. Paris, France. In Fre. with
sum. in Eng.
The demography of the Jewish population of Metz, in
eastern France, over the course of the eighteenth century is analyzed
using data from a register of births, marriages, and deaths kept by
that community. The analysis shows that a period of growth earlier in
the century was followed by one of demographic stagnation in the two
decades prior to the French Revolution due primarily to declining
economic conditions.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
61:10618 Nadeau,
Richard; Niemi, Richard G.; Levine, Jeffrey. Innumeracy
about minority populations. Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 57, No.
3, Fall 1993. 332-47 pp. Chicago, Illinois. In Eng.
"We use a small
but nationally representative sample to investigate the sources of
innumeracy regarding the proportion of blacks, Hispanics, and Jews in
the U.S. population. In addition to a number of standard demographic
differences, we find that overestimates are closely related to region
as well as to the density of the local black/Hispanic population. The
extent to which minority populations are perceived as a kind of threat
is also related to perceived proportions, though the direction of
causality cannot be determined."
Correspondence: R. Nadeau,
Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succursale A, Montreal, Quebec H3C
3J7, Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
61:10619 Robitaille,
Norbert; Guimond, Eric. Demographic trends among the
indigenous populations of Quebec. [La situation demographique des
groupes autochtones du Quebec.] Recherches Sociographiques, Vol. 35,
No. 3, 1994. 433-54, 623 pp. Quebec, Canada. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
"Estimates of the native population in Quebec range from barely
50,000 to nearly 140,000. In spite of this lack of precision, we
attempt to describe the age structure of this population and to
identify its renewal mechanisms: fertility, mortality and ethnic
mobility, which has...been quite high recently as indicated by the very
strong growth in Native populations over the past
decade."
Correspondence: N. Robitaille, Universite de
Montreal, Departement de Demographie, C.P. 6128, Succursale A,
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
61:10620 Tas, R. F.
J. Suriname and Dutch Antillean population in the
Netherlands, January 1, 1994. [Surinaamse en Antilliaanse
bevolking in Nederland, 1 januari 1994.] Maandstatistiek van de
Bevolking, Vol. 42, No. 10, Oct 1994. 6-10 pp. Voorburg, Netherlands.
In Dut. with sum. in Eng.
The author provides data on the
Surinamese and Netherlands Antilles population living in the
Netherlands on January 1, 1994. Data are provided on sex, age, total
fertility rate, death rate, marriage rate, and
nationality.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10621 Yusuf,
Farhat; Byrnes, Monica. Ethnic mosaic of modern China: an
analysis of fertility and mortality data for the twelve largest ethnic
minorities. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, Jun
1994. 25-46 pp. Bangkok, Thailand. In Eng.
"Using data from the
recently released 1990 census, this article presents preliminary
findings regarding some aspects of demographic behaviour of the 12
largest minority groups in China. The size, growth rate and age
structure of the groups are examined as well as their fertility and
mortality patterns, using the total population of China as the
standard. Where possible, comparisons are made with the results of the
1982 census. Overall, the ethnic minorities were found to have younger
age structures and their levels of fertility and mortality (including
infant mortality) were higher than those of the total population. Many
of the minorities were found to be concentrated in relatively remote
and mountainous areas which have not fully experienced the benefits of
recent social and economic development efforts in
China."
Correspondence: F. Yusuf, Macquarie University,
Demographic Research Group, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
61:10622 Zhang,
Tianlu; Zhang, Mei. The present population of the Tibetan
nationality in China. Social Sciences in China, Vol. 15, Spring
1994. 46-65 pp. Beijing, China. In Eng.
Recent population trends
among the Tibetan population of China are analyzed using data from
official Chinese sources. Chapters are included on changes in the
spatial distribution of population and the reduction of the size of the
Han population in Tibetan areas, marriage and the family, fertility and
infant survival, mortality, age and sex composition, educational
status, and quality of life.
Translated from the Chinese article in
Zhongguo Shehui Kexue (Beijing, China), No. 5, 1993.
Location: Princeton University Library (Gest).
61:10623 Zimmerman,
Rick S.; Vega, William A.; Gil, Andres G.; Warheit, George J.;
Apospori, Eleni; Biafora, Frank. Who is Hispanic?
Definitions and their consequences. American Journal of Public
Health, Vol. 84, No. 12, Dec 1994. 1,985-7 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
Data from the first wave of a longitudinal study of adolescents
living in the greater Miami area of Florida are used to examine
methodological issues involving the classification of
Spanish-speaking-origin inhabitants of the United States. The authors
conclude that "when policy makers are concerned about enumerating the
entire Hispanic population, a definition broader than
self-identification should be used; in estimating prevalence rates,
however, the use of self-identification may be
adequate."
Correspondence: R. S. Zimmerman, University of
Kentucky, Department of Behavioral Science, 127 College of Medicine
Office Building, Lexington, KY 40536-0086. Location: Princeton
University Library (SZ).
