Primarily references to descriptive studies. Official tabular material will be found under S. Official Statistical Publications. Items that are primarily analytical, but that also contain information on characteristics, will be found under K. Demographic and Economic Interrelations and Natural Resources or L. Demographic and Noneconomic Interrelations, as appropriate.
Descriptive studies of populations according to various demographic characteristics, including age, sex, sex ratios, and marital status. Studies on demographic aging are also included.
63:10586 Bartlett, Helen P.; Phillips, David
R. Aging trends--Hong Kong. Journal of Cross-Cultural
Gerontology, Vol. 10, No. 3, Dec 1995. 257-65 pp. Dordrecht,
Netherlands. In Eng.
Aspects of demographic aging in Hong Kong are
examined in this study. "By regional standards, many of Hong
Kong's 1992 population of 5.9 million have a good standard of living
and adequate housing. However, there are considerable discrepancies in
wealth and well-being; elderly people are not always financially
secure, and there are growing difficulties in maintaining the oft-cited
mode of family care for elderly members. Hong Kong is a rapidly aging
society and it is essential to see this process in the context of local
and regional socioeconomic change and the future political linkages of
the territory with China."
Correspondence: D. R.
Phillips, University of Nottingham, Department of Geography, University
Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England.
63:10587 de Beer, J. Less aging
in the Netherlands than in other Western European countries.
[Nederland minder vergrijsd dan andere West-Europese landen.]
Maandstatistiek van de Bevolking, Vol. 44, No. 11, Nov 1996. 6-8 pp.
Voorburg, Netherlands. In Dut. with sum. in Eng.
"The
percentage of the population aged 65 or over in the Netherlands is
currently lower than in all other member states of the European Union,
with the exception of Ireland. The relatively low percentage of persons
aged 65 or over can be explained by the fact that the post-war baby
boom continued longer in the Netherlands than in most other countries.
According to the new population scenarios for the European Union...the
percentage of the Dutch population aged 65 or over will remain below
the average for the European Union during the next half
century."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
63:10588 Dell'Agnese, Elena.
Population aging in South-East Asia and policies of old-age
support. [Invecchiamento della popolazione e politiche di sostegno
agli anziani nel Sud-Est asiatico.] Rivista Geografica Italiana, Vol.
102, No. 2, Jun 1995. 319-34 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita. with sum. in
Eng; Fre.
"The problem of ageing is generally perceived as
being typical of developed countries, as these have in most cases
reached the last stage of their demographic transition. On the other
hand, a rapid decline of the fertility rate, knowingly associated
[with] a quick improvement of socio-economic factors and, often, [with]
successful birth-control policies, is causing a sharp increase of the
relative amount of elderly people also in some developing countries.
This has a dramatic impact on family structures that, in traditional
societies, assist the elderly relatives, while the government is
usually still unable to provide institutional support. The issue is
analysed in the South East Asian context."
Correspondence:
E. Dell'Agnese, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Istituto Interfacoltà di Geografia, 20123 Milan, Italy.
Location: New York Public Library, New York, NY.
63:10589 Heleniak, Tim. Russia's
age structure in 1996: a research report. Post-Soviet Geography
and Economics, Vol. 37, No. 6, Jun 1996. 386-95 pp. Palm Beach,
Florida. In Eng.
"This research note provides a preliminary
analysis of Russia's current age-sex structure, with a focus on the
recent past and on what the current levels may indicate about the
Russian population's future growth potential." The author notes
that "Russia currently is experiencing an absolute decline in the
size of its population as well as negative natural increase. It is one
of several countries in the world now experiencing an absolute decline
in its population and one of about 11 countries registering a negative
rate of natural increase. Because of Russia's age structure and the
trends in its fertility and mortality rates, there does not appear to
be much of a reason for any of these trends to reverse themselves until
some future time in the next century."
Correspondence:
T. Heleniak, World Bank, International Economics Department, 1818
H Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20433. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
63:10590 Ingstad, Benedicte; Brunborg, Helge;
Bruun, Frank J. Elderly people at village level in
Botswana. Yearbook of Population Research in Finland, Vol. 33,
1996. 243-61 pp. Helsinki, Finland. In Eng.
"The paper
presents demographic and social data from an in-depth study of the
situation of elderly people in a village in Botswana....We found that
the majority of elderly people in the study village are women. The
educational level of the elderly people of both sexes is low but the
majority have undergone the traditional initiation schools, Bojale and
Bogwera. All households are influenced by modernization in that they
need cash for survival. They depend to a large extent on the support of
their grandchildren for survival, a support which is not always
given."
Correspondence: B. Ingstad, University of
Oslo, Section for Medical Anthropology, P.O. Box 1072, Blindern, 0316
Oslo, Norway. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10591 Langner, Günther.
Fertility of populations as a function of the attained level of
life expectancy in the course of human evolution. Historical
Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1996.
24-55 pp. Cologne, Germany. In Eng.
"`Aging societies' with
increasing life expectancies of the average of all their members are
facts in modern history that are disputed by nobody. What is disputed
by the most renowned names in demography, however, is that aging
populations are a consequence of the fall in mortality and thus the
increase in life expectancy. It is claimed that the [principal] reason
for `aging' is to be found in a drop in fertility. In this sense
today's demographers regard as a standard result: `Variations in
fertility are of more significance for the age structure of populations
than variations in mortality'. In the following paper this thesis,
which is based on a neo-Malthusian interpretation of the role of
fertility in the demographic process, will be
questioned."
Correspondence: G. Langner, Steinbeiss
Straße 45, 70839 Gerlingen, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10592 Légaré, Jacques;
Pelletier, Louis. Urbanization and the aging of the
population: the Canadian situation. [Urbanisation et
vieillissement de la population: la situation canadienne.] Collection
de Tirés à Part, No. 361, [1996?]. 187-211 pp.
Université de Montréal, Département de
Démographie: Montreal, Canada. In Fre.
Future demographic
trends in Canada are examined; the authors conclude that continuing
urbanization and demographic aging will be the dominating factors. They
stress the need to develop social policies to benefit the growing
number of elderly people living in cities, and to increase their
ability to contribute to society.
Correspondence:
Université de Montréal, Département de
Démographie, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montreal,
Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
63:10593 Martel, Laurent;
Légaré, Jacques. After the baby boom, the
oldy boom: some demographic insights on the new aging.
[Après le baby-boom, le papy-boom: regards démographiques
sur une nouvelle vieillesse.] Collection de Tirés à Part,
No. 373, [1995?]. 26-32 pp. Université de Montréal,
Département de Démographie: Montreal, Canada. In Fre.
The implications of the aging of the population for the Canadian
province of Quebec are examined. The authors suggest that society will
adapt to the changes implicit in the demographic aging of its
population by shifting the relations between the generations and
between the sexes.
Correspondence: Université de
Montréal, Département de Démographie, C.P. 6128,
Succursale Centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10594 Mesquida, Christian G.; Wiener, Neil
I. Human collective aggression: a behavioral ecology
perspective. Ethology and Sociobiology, No. 17, 1996. 247-62 pp.
New York, New York. In Eng.
"This article further develops and
revises Moller's proposition that a particular demographic
circumstance--a population profile that is disproportionately
young--makes the occurrence of collective aggression extremely
probable. We argue, from an evolutionary perspective, that it is simply
the relative number of young males in a given population that is likely
to be correlated with the presence or absence of collective violence.
As a preliminary test of this hypothesis we analyze three different
sets of population and conflict data with the intention of bringing to
light any relationship that might exist between the two
variables." The analyses "of interstate and intrastate
episodes of collective aggression since the 1960s indicate the
existence of a consistent correlation between the ratio of males 15 to
29 years of age per 100 males 30 years of age and older, and the level
of coalitional aggression as measured by the number of reported
conflict related deaths."
Correspondence: N. I.
Wiener, York University, Department of Psychology, North York, Ontario
M3J 1P3, Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10595 Muntele, Ionel. The
aging of Romania's rural population since 1930. [Le vieillissement
de la population rurale en Roumanie depuis 1930.] Espace
Géographique, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1994. 312-7 pp. Vélizy,
France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Rum.
"The ageing of rural
population in Romania is becoming increasingly serious as regions which
are endangered by this phenomenon have to face the additional problem
of the reprivatisation of agricultural land. This has been analysed at
departmental level based on the 1930, 1966, 1977 and 1992 censuses
respectively....The modes of evolution of this ageing phenomenon have
been classified into different types. Two factors, demographic change
and rural exodus, account for this development whose geographical
configuration has changed over half a
century."
Correspondence: I. Muntele, Academia
Româna, Calea Victoriei 125, 71102 Bucharest, Romania.
Location: New York Public Library, New York, NY.
63:10596 Parant, Alain.
Demographic aging in the European Union. [Le vieillissement
démographique de l'Union européenne.] Population et
Sociétés, No. 321, Feb 1997. [4] pp. Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
This
is a general review of demographic aging in the countries of the
European Union up to the year 2050. The author also discusses the
prospects for making the changes needed in order to provide pensions
and health services for future populations.
Correspondence:
Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du
Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10597 Pathak, K. B.; Ladusingh, L.
A modified stochastic model of family formation. Demography
India, Vol. 25, No. 1, Jan-Jun 1996. 61-9 pp. Delhi, India. In Eng.
"The present paper aims at proposing a modified model to
ascertain demographic characteristics of mothers such as average age of
mothers at the time of birth of the first and the last offsprings,
average reproductive span and probability distribution of birth in the
lifetime of mothers with limited demographic information that
summarizes the marriage, the fertility and the mortality patterns in a
population. The emphasis is [on studying] the sensitivity of
nuptiality, fertility and mortality on the aforesaid demographic
characteristics of women." The model is illustrated with data for
Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, and India as a whole.
Correspondence:
K. B. Pathak, International Institute for Population Sciences,
Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, India. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10598 Phillips, David R.; Bartlett, Helen
P. Aging trends--Singapore. Journal of Cross-Cultural
Gerontology, Vol. 10, No. 4, Dec 1995. 349-56 pp. Dordrecht,
Netherlands. In Eng.
"Three major inter-related issues have
emerged concerning population aging in Singapore. The first two
concerns are whether aging will increase dependency on the state for
welfare and financial assistance and whether traditional family caring
structures will survive and provide the care deemed necessary in the
future. The third concern focuses on the potential impact of population
aging on Singapore's future economic growth and development....A
national policy on elderly persons has been formulated since 1989 and
focuses on four main areas: employment of elderly people in the
workforce; attitudes towards elderly people; community care; and
residential care."
Correspondence: D. Phillips,
University of Nottingham, Department of Geography, University Park,
Nottingham NG7 2RD, England. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10599 Premi, Mahendra K.
Female infanticide and child neglect as possible reasons for low
sex ratio in the Punjab, 1881-1931. Population Geography, Vol. 16,
No. 1-2, Jun-Dec 1994. 33-48 pp. Chandigarh, India. In Eng.
"The social and cultural practices prevalent in various parts
of [India] resulted in the neglect of the female child...[in general,
and] probably more so in the Punjab. Moreover, female mortality
significantly exceeded male mortality in years of epidemics and
famines. This paper tries to examine the socio-cultural and economic
factors, namely, the system of land holdings and inheritance
strategies, structured customs in different parts of the province, and
notions of honour and status which probably have been at the back of
neglect of the girl child. Among certain caste groups even female
infanticide might not have been uncommon."
Correspondence:
M. K. Premi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for the Study of
Regional Development, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 067, India.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10600 Thukral, A. K. A model
for sex ratio decline in India. Journal of Human Ecology, Vol. 7,
No. 2, 1996. 143-6 pp. Delhi, India. In Eng.
"The sex ratio in
India has declined from 972 females per 1,000 males in 1901 to 929
females per 1,000 males in 1991. A model [is] proposed for the
quantitative analysis of the problem....The study reveals that there
has been a sex discriminated population growth in India in the
twentieth century, although the rate of decline of the female has
decreased. If the current trend of population growth continues, there
will be a further decline in the [sex
ratio]."
Correspondence: A. K. Thukral, Guru Nank Dev
University, Department of Botanical Sciences, Amritsar, Punjab 143 005,
India. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10601 Yadava, K. N. S.; Yadava, Surendar
S.; Sharma, C. L. N. A study of socioeconomic factors and
behavioural problems of the aged persons in rural northern India.
Demography India, Vol. 25, No. 1, Jan-Jun 1996. 21-34 pp. Delhi, India.
In Eng.
"This paper sketches the profile of aged persons in
rural northern India and identifies some of the problems they face. The
attitude and behaviour of the family members towards the elderly [are
also] discussed with respect to some socio-economic and cultural
factors. The study is based on a random sample survey of 267 elderly
(those more than 60 years old) persons conducted in rural areas of
eastern Uttar Pradesh....This paper also throws some light on the needs
and desires of elderly people and their expectations from the family
members, villagers, and government. Appropriate statistical techniques
are applied to test the variability, if any, among various
socio-economic groups of the elderly."
Correspondence:
K. N. S. Yadava, Banaras Hindu University, Department of
Statistics, Varanasi 221 005, India. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
Descriptive studies of menarche and menopause, longevity, and increasing the life span, as well as other biological characteristics such as sex selection. Studies that are concerned with menarche and menopause as they specifically affect fertility are coded under F.5. Factors Other Than Contraception Affecting Fertility.
63:10602 Jeune, Bernard; Vaupel, James
W. Exceptional longevity: from prehistory to the
present. Monographs on Population Aging, No. 2, ISBN
87-7838-135-5. 1995. 169 pp. Odense University Press: Odense, Denmark.
In Eng.
This book contains revised versions of 11 papers on aspects
of exceptional human longevity, most of which were originally presented
at a workshop held in Hindsgavl, Denmark, in September 1994. The focus
is on the extent to which humans lived to the age of 100 in times past.
The geographical focus is worldwide.
Correspondence: Odense
University Press, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark. Location:
University of Pennsylvania, Demography Library, Philadelphia, PA.
63:10603 Khan, Awal D.; Schroeder, Dirk G.;
Martorell, Reynaldo; Haas, Jere D.; Rivera, Juan. Early
childhood determinants of age at menarche in rural Guatemala.
American Journal of Human Biology, Vol. 8, No. 6, 1996. 717-23 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng.
"The influence of early childhood
determinants on age at menarche was investigated in a sample of
Guatemalan women who participated as children in a nutrition
intervention study conducted from 1969 to 1977. Age at menarche was
retrospectively estimated in 1991 and 1992. Mean age at menarche was
13.7...years....Four hundred and ninety-seven women who had reached
menarche by 1992 were grouped into three categories of [growth]
stunting based on their height-for-age z-scores....When the effects of
diet, supplement, percent time ill with diarrhea and respiratory
illnesses, and SES [socioeconomic status] were taken into account, the
independent influence of stunting on age at menarche persisted and
remained significant."
Correspondence: A. D. Khan,
Georgia State Division of Public Health, Epidemiology and Prevention
Branch, 2 Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303. Location:
Princeton University Library (SZ).
63:10604 Kranczer, Stanley. Mixed
life expectancy changes. Statistical Bulletin, Vol. 77, No. 4,
Oct-Dec 1996. 29-36 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"Life
expectancy for the U.S. total population was essentially unchanged in
1995 from the prior year. However, analysis by sex reveals that males
experienced longevity enhancements across the age spectrum. In fact,
average remaining future lifetime for men established new record highs
or remained at peak levels at every age. In 1995 expectation of life at
birth was 75.7 years for the total population, 72.4 years for boys and
78.8 years for girls. At individual ages, women's average remaining
lifetime has hardly changed since 1990, whereas men under age 75 have
gained around 0.5 years between 1990 and 1995. In 1995 the infant
mortality rate established another all-time low, namely 7.6 per 1,000
live births; this marks the 33rd consecutive year of annual
declines."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
63:10605 Salvini, Silvana. The
evolution of longevity and the process of aging in Western
societies. [L'evoluzione della longevità ed il processo di
invecchiamento nelle società occidentali.] Bollettino di
Demografia Storica, No. 21, 1994. 103-25 pp. Bologna, Italy. In Ita.
The author discusses the issues of rising life expectancy and
population aging by examining the definitions and realities of these
two terms. She argues that the concepts "old age" and
"population aging" are historical cultural constructs, and
that it is time to redefine the later stages of life and the role of
older people. The concept of a "third age" of life, during
which people can continue to make important contributions to society,
is presented. The geographical focus is on developed
countries.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Descriptive studies of income differentials, earnings, career mobility, and other economic characteristics if allocated according to demographic groups. Analytical studies are classified under K.1.1. General Economic Development and Population, and studies concerned with employment and labor force are classified under K.3. Employment and Labor Force Participation.
63:10606 Albrecht, James W.; Edin, Per-Anders;
Sundström, Marianne; Vroman, Susan B. Career
interruptions and subsequent earnings: a reexamination using Swedish
data. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography, No. 111, ISBN
91-7820-142-X. Dec 1996. 19 pp. Stockholm University, Demography Unit:
Stockholm, Sweden. In Eng.
"This paper reexamines the link
between career interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a rich new
Swedish dataset, we are able to disaggregate time out of work into
several components. Regressing log wages on an aggregate total time out
leads to the standard result, i.e., a negative coefficient on time out.
However, we find that different types of time out have different
effects on wages and that these effects vary by gender. This casts
doubt on the usual human capital depreciation interpretation that has
been placed on the negative coefficient of total time out in the wage
equation. We propose a simple signalling model as an alternative
interpretation."
Correspondence: Stockholm University,
Demography Unit, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10607 Borjas, George J.
Immigration, ethnic identity, and assimilation: the
intergenerational transmission of immigrant skills. In: Economic
aspects of international migration, edited by Herbert Giersch. 1994.
139-54 pp. Springer-Verlag: New York, New York/Berlin, Germany. In Eng.
This chapter "analyzes the extent to which the skills of
immigrants are transmitted to their ethnic offspring [in the United
States]. The empirical evidence reveals a very strong correlation
between the average earnings of a second-generation ethnic group and
the earnings of the corresponding first-generation national origin
group. This correlation is much stronger than the typical correlation
observed between parental earnings and children's earnings in the
literature." Data are from Public Use Samples of the 1940 and 1970
censuses.
Correspondence: G. J. Borjas, University of
California, La Jolla, CA 92093. Location: Princeton University
Library (FST).
63:10608 Borjas, George J. The
earnings of Mexican immigrants in the United States. Journal of
Development Economics, Vol. 51, No. 1, Oct 1996. 69-98 pp. Amsterdam,
Netherlands. In Eng.
"This paper documents the trends in the
earnings of Mexican immigrants during the 1970-1990 period. The
empirical evidence indicates that there has been a decline in the
relative wage of successive Mexican immigrant waves in the past three
decades and that little wage convergence occurs between the typical
Mexican immigrant and the typical native worker. The data also suggest
that the increasing importance of Mexican immigration is partly
responsible for the deterioration in relative skills observed in the
aggregate immigrant population, but that there has also been a decline
in relative skills even among non-Mexican
immigrants."
Correspondence: G. J. Borjas, Harvard
University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPIA).
63:10609 Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau,
Pierre. Bequests as a heir "disciple
device". Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4,
1996. 405-14 pp. Berlin, Germany. In Eng.
"This paper develops
a model of inter vivos gifts and bequests in a setting of moral hazard
and adverse selection. Altruistic parents do not perfectly know how
much effort their children make to earn their living, nor do they know
their true level of ability. Inter vivos gifts take place prior to the
realization of the children's earnings whereas at the moment of
bequests, parents do observe them. We show that an optimal transfer
policy generally uses a mix of inter vivos gifts--deemed as more
efficient--and bequests--deemed as more
redistributive."
Correspondence: P. Pestieau,
Université de Liège, Department of Economics, 7 boulevard
du Rectorat, 4000 Liège, Belgium. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10610 Duleep, Harriet O.; Regets, Mark
C. Earnings convergence: does it matter where immigrants
come from or why? Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue Canadienne
d'Economique, Vol. 29, No. 1996/Special Issue, Pt. 1, Apr 1996. 131-4
pp. Downsview, Canada. In Eng.
"Recent immigrants to the
United States have lower entry earnings than previous cohorts. The
importance of this decline depends on whether recent immigrants
experience the same earnings growth rate as previous cohorts. Although
it is natural to assume that the earnings growth rate of previous
cohorts is a good predictor for recent cohorts, our analyses provide
evidence of heterogeneity in cohort earnings growth rates. We find an
inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth,
faster earnings growth for groups admitted predominately by family
preferences, and a tendency for immigrant earnings to converge over
time."
Correspondence: H. O. Duleep, Urban Institute,
2100 M Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037. Location: Princeton
University Library (PF).
63:10611 Duncan, Greg J.; Boisjoly, Johanne;
Smeeding, Timothy. Economic mobility of young workers in
the 1970s and 1980s. Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, Nov 1996. 497-509
pp. Silver Spring, Maryland. In Eng.
"This paper uses
longitudinal data to estimate cohort changes in the earnings
trajectories of young adult [U.S.] males. Levels of earnings are
uniformly lower for male workers turning 21 between 1980 and 1991 than
in 1970-1979, although rates of earnings growth are roughly comparable.
Among males turning 21 before 1980, six in 10 (60%) of all men and
seven in 10 (71%) college-educated men attained earnings levels by age
30 that were at least twice the poverty level. Corresponding fractions
for workers turning 21 between 1980 and 1991 were considerably lower
(42% and 56%). Recent cohorts from all demographic subgroups appeared
to have more difficulty than older cohorts in attaining middle-class
earnings."
Correspondence: G. J. Duncan, Northwestern
University, Institute for Policy Research, 2040 Sheridan Road,
Evanston, IL 60208-4100. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10612 England, Paula; Reid, Lori L.;
Kilbourne, Barbara S. The effect of the sex composition of
jobs on starting wages in an organization: findings from the NLSY.
Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, Nov 1996. 511-21 pp. Silver Spring,
Maryland. In Eng.
"We show that individuals in a job with a
higher percentage of females earn lower starting wages with an
employing organization. This holds true with controls for individuals'
human capital, job demands for skill or difficult working conditions,
and detailed industry. We use a measure of sex composition that applies
to detailed jobs: cells in a three-digit census occupation by
three-digit census industry matrix. We use pooled panel data from the
1979-1987 waves of the [U.S.] National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
The unit of analysis is the spell--the time in which a person worked
for one organization. The dependent variable is the first wage in the
spell. We use models with fixed-effects to control for unmeasured,
unchanging individual characteristics; we also show results from OLS
and weighted models for comparison. The negative effect on wages of the
percentage female in one's job is robust across procedures for black
women, white women, and white men. For black men the sign is always
negative but the coefficient is often
nonsignificant."
Correspondence: P. England,
University of Arizona, Department of Sociology, Tucson, AZ 85721.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10613 Hanson, Thomas L.; Garfinkel, Irwin;
McLanahan, Sara S.; Miller, Cynthia K. Trends in child
support outcomes. Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, Nov 1996. 483-96 pp.
Silver Spring, Maryland. In Eng.
"This paper examines trends
in [U.S.] child support award rates, award amounts, and receipts. We
investigate four hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the
downward trend in these outcomes during the 1980s: (1) changes in the
demographic composition of the population eligible for child support,
(2) increases in mothers' income, (3) decreases in fathers' income, and
(4) inflation. Our results indicate that trends in nonmarital fertility
can explain much of the decline in award rates. The steady downward
trend in fathers' incomes during the 1980s also explains a considerable
portion of the decline in award rates, award amounts, and receipts. Our
results are also consistent with the notion that persistent money
illusion is responsible for the decline in real child support
awards."
Correspondence: T. L. Hanson, Syracuse
University, College for Human Development, Department of Child and
Family Studies, Syracuse, NY 13244. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10614 Jargowsky, Paul A. Take
the money and run: economic segregation in U.S. metropolitan
areas. American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 6, Dec 1996.
984-98 pp. Washington, D. C. In Eng.
This study examines the role
played by economic segregation in forming urban ghettos in the United
States. "I present a methodological critique of the measure of
economic segregation used by Massey and Eggers (1990) and argue that
their measure confounds changes in the income distribution with spatial
changes. I develop a `pure' measure of economic segregation based on
the correlation ratio and present findings for all U.S. metropolitan
areas from 1970 to 1990. Economic segregation increased steadily for
Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics in the 1970s and 1980s but the increases
have been particularly large and widespread for Blacks and Hispanics in
the 1980s. I explore the causes of these changes in a reduced-form,
fixed-effects model. Social distance and structural economic
transformations affect economic segregation, but the large increases in
economic segregation among minorities in the 1980s cannot be explained
by the model."
For the study by Massey and Eggers, see
56:40553.
Correspondence: P. A. Jargowsky, University of
Texas at Dallas, School of Social Sciences GR 31, 2601 North Floyd
Road, Richardson, TX 75080. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10615 Leach, John. Training,
migration, and regional income disparities. Journal of Public
Economics, Vol. 61, No. 3, Sep 1996. 429-43 pp. Lausanne, Switzerland.
In Eng.
"It is assumed that there are two regions, that
production requires both skilled and unskilled labour, and that one
region is innately more productive than the other. Workers, who differ
in their migration or training costs, make individually rational
decisions. In equilibrium the ratio of skilled workers to unskilled
workers is always higher in the more productive region. Average incomes
differ between regions because regional differences in wage rates are
reinforced by regional differences in the structure of employment. The
model is also used to analyse the effects of policies intended to
equalize the distribution of income."
Correspondence:
J. Leach, McMaster University, Department of Economics, Hamilton,
Ontario L8S 4M4, Canada. Location: Princeton University
Library (PF).
63:10616 Lee, Ronald. A
cross-cultural perspective of intergenerational transfers. [Una
perspectiva transcultural de las transferencias intergeneracionales.]
Notas de Población, No. 62, Dec 1995. 311-62 pp. Santiago,
Chile. In Spa.
The intergenerational reallocation of resources in
different economic and cultural systems is explored with a focus on
three major types of systems--accumulation and loss of capital,
transactions of credit, and direct gifts for transfers. The
geographical focus is on both developing and developed
countries.
Correspondence: R. Lee, University of
California, Department of Demography, 2232 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley,
CA 94720. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10617 Lévy, Michel L.
Salaries, family incomes, and standards of living. [Salaires,
revenus familiaux, niveaux de vie.] Population et
Sociétés, No. 320, Jan 1997. [4] pp. Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
The
available sources of information relevant to the study of the relations
among individual salaries, family incomes, and standards of living in
France are reviewed.
Correspondence: Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex
14, France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10618 Livi-Bacci, Massimo.
Poverty and population. [Pobreza y población.] Notas de
Población, No. 62, Dec 1995. 115-38 pp. Santiago, Chile. In Spa.
This is a general study on poverty and its demographic causes and
consequences. Sections are included on population growth and poverty;
poverty and common property; population change and structure;
well-being, behavior, and demographic phenomena; mortality and healthy
survival; reproduction; and migration and
mobility.
Correspondence: M. Livi-Bacci, Università
degli Studi di Firenze, Department of Political Science, Piazza San
Marco 4, 50121 Florence, Italy. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10619 Massey, Douglas S. The
age of extremes: concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first
century. Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, Nov 1996. 395-428 pp. Silver
Spring, Maryland. In Eng.
"Urbanization, rising income
inequality, and increasing class segregation have produced a geographic
concentration of affluence and poverty throughout the world, creating a
radical change in the geographic basis of human society. As the density
of poverty rises in the environment of the world's poor, so will their
exposure to crime, disease, violence, and family disruption. Meanwhile
the spatial concentration of affluence will enhance the benefits and
privileges of the rich. In the twenty-first century the advantages and
disadvantages of one's class position will be compounded and reinforced
through ecological mechanisms made possible by the geographic
concentration of affluence and poverty, creating a deeply divided and
increasingly violent social world." Comments by Sheldon Danziger;
Reynolds Farley; and Michael Hout, Richard Arum, and Kim Voss are
included (pp. 413-25); a response by Massey is also provided (pp.
427-8).
This paper was originally presented as the Presidential
Address at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America.
Correspondence: D. S. Massey, University of
Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, 3718 Locust Walk,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10620 Medina, Rosa F. Poverty
in Peru. [La pobreza en el Peru.] Revista Peruana de
Población, No. 5, 1994. 41-59 pp. Lima, Peru. In Spa. with sum.
in Eng.
"Based on 1991 estimates, the author analyzes the
evolution, distribution and characteristics of population in overall
poverty conditions (54% of population) and those in extreme poverty
(22%) [in Peru. She] finds that the greatest amount of critical poverty
is located in rural highlands and at the urban coast (with the
exception of Lima)....[She] emphasizes the need to improve nutrition
levels and education, as main challenges to overcome
poverty."
Correspondence: R. F. Medina, Fondo Nacional
de Compensación y Desarrollo Social, Lima, Peru. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10621 Morrison, Peter A.; Abrahamse, Allan
F. Applying demographic analysis to store site
selection. Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 15, No.
5-6, Dec 1996. 479-89 pp. Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
"This case study illustrates how applied demographic analysis
can help structure business decisionmaking. We screened every one of
several thousand square miles within metropolitan Southern California
to identify the 10 best locations for a large supermarket catering to
one-stop shoppers. Locations were selected based on potential sales
volume (irrespective of nearby competitors), future stability of the
resident consumer base, and specific demographic factors likely to
enhance sales potential among target shoppers (e.g., dual-earner
families). The client placed as much importance on how the results were
derived as on our recommendations. As a result, our analytical
framework for comparing high-potential locations played a central role
in structuring the client's thinking. This framework, together with the
empirical analysis, illustrates how applied demographers can
operationalize business questions about consumer markets and guide a
client toward a more systematic way of reaching
decisions."
This article is based on a paper presented at the
1987 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America.
Correspondence: P. A. Morrison, RAND, 1700 Main
Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10622 Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf;
Zweimüller, Josef. Immigration and the earnings of
young native workers. Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 48, No. 3, Jul
1996. 473-91 pp. Oxford, England. In Eng.
"This paper studies
the impact of increased immigration in Austria on the wages of young
native blue collar workers. We find that in regions, industries, or
firms with a larger foreign share, Austrians earn higher wages. With
respect to the impact of changes in the immigrant share on wage growth,
the results are mixed. We develop a simple bargaining model which is
consistent with these surprising results."
Correspondence:
R. Winter-Ebmer, University of Linz, Department of Economics, 4040
Linz, Austria. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10623 Zweimüller, Josef; Winter-Ebmer,
Rudolf. Internal labor markets and firm-specific
determination of earnings in the presence of immigrant workers.
Economics Letters, Vol. 48, 1995. 185-91 pp. Lausanne, Switzerland. In
Eng.
"In this paper we study earnings determination at the
firm level in Austria. We distinguish firms who employ immigrant
workers and those who do not. By using a switching regressions model we
find that native workers in firms with immigrant employees face rising
earnings-tenure profiles whereas natives in other firms do
not."
Correspondence: R. Winter-Ebmer, University of
Linz, Abteilung für Allgemeine Wirschaftstheorie, Linz 4040,
Austria. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Descriptive studies of populations according to literacy and educational attainment, cultural background, religious affiliation, residential characteristics and segregation, and the like. Studies on social mobility are also coded under this heading.
63:10624 Johnson, Richard W.; DaVanzo,
Julie. Mother-child coresidence and quasi-coresidence in
Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Population, Vol. 2, No. 1, Jun
1996. 21-42 pp. Depok, Indonesia. In Eng.
"This paper defines
quasi-coresidence, a type of living arrangement in Southeast Asia in
which parents and children live separately but in close proximity and
see and help one another frequently. Since this is a new concept...we
consider a number of alternative measures of quasi-coresidence,
including the frequency with which adult children visit their mothers,
provide assistance to their mothers, or both visit and assist their
mothers. Using data from the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey, we
find that frequent visits between children and mothers are very common
among all ethnic groups in Peninsular Malaysia, and that frequent
assistance, although more rare than visits, is also fairly prevalent.
For example, among mothers who do not coreside with an adult child,
more than 8 percent receive both weekly assistance and weekly visits
from a least one of their children. Whereas Malays (particularly sons)
are less likely to coreside with mothers, they are more likely to
provide assistance when they do not coreside. We also find other
evidence of substitution between coresidence and
quasi-coresidence."
Correspondence: R. W. Johnson,
Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging
Research, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10625 Kishor, Sunita; Neitzel,
Katherine. The status of women: indicators for twenty-five
countries. DHS Comparative Studies, No. 21, Dec 1996. xi, 113 pp.
Macro International, Demographic and Health Surveys [DHS]: Calverton,
Maryland. In Eng.
"This study utilizes the household and
individual level information available in the Demographic and Health
Surveys (DHS) program to compare women's status across 25 countries
throughout the developing world. Wherever possible, comparisons are
made between men and women to ascertain whether any gender bias exists.
This report examines the relative poverty status, household headship,
and education of men and women, and compares the education and
employment of husbands and wives. Additional chapters explore women's
employment, workload, and marriage
patterns."
Correspondence: Macro International,
Demographic and Health Surveys, 11785 Beltsville Drive, Calverton, MD
20705-3119. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10626 Knodel, John; Jones, Gavin
W. Post-Cairo population policy: does promoting girls'
schooling miss the mark? Population and Development Review, Vol.
22, No. 4, Dec 1996. 683-702, 814, 816 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"One emphasis of the new population
paradigm that emerged at the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development in Cairo concerns gender inequality in
education and the need to promote girls' schooling at the secondary
level, both as a goal of human development and as a means to encourage
lower fertility in developing countries. A critical weakness of this
approach...is that it fails to address the socioeconomic inequality
that deprives both boys and girls of adequate schooling. Such
unbalanced attention to one dimension of inequality detracts from the
attention accorded to other dimensions. Moreover, while female
disadvantage remains an important feature of educational access in some
regions, there are numerous countries, even within the developing
world, where the gender gap in education is absent or modest, and in
almost all countries it has been diminishing substantially over the
last few decades. By contrast, the authors contend, inequality in
education based on socioeconomic background is nearly universal and, in
most cases, more pronounced than gender inequality. Data from various
developing countries, especially Thailand and Vietnam, document this
situation."
Correspondence: J. Knodel, University of
Michigan, Department of Sociology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10627 Kuo, Hsiang-Hui D.; Hauser, Robert
M. How does size of sibship matter? Family configuration
and family effects on educational attainment. Social Science
Research, Vol. 26, No. 1, Mar 1997. 69-94 pp. Orlando, Florida. In Eng.
Data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study are used to analyze the
impact of social background, sibship size, and gender on educational
attainment in the United States. "We find no differences in
educational attainment by gender composition within those family sizes.
Smaller sibships obtain more schooling, and men obtain more schooling
than women. Smaller families are more heterogeneous than larger
families, but the effects of measured social background characteristics
do not vary by size of sibship or gender composition of sibship. The
effects of social background variables on the schooling of women are
uniformly smaller than among men, and the nonshared (within-family)
variations in schooling are much smaller among women than among men.
These findings could lead to incorrect inferences that families matter
more for women than for men or that large families experience more
varied outcomes than small families."
The full text of this
article is available electronically through IDEAL at
http://www.apnet.com.
Correspondence: H.-H. D. Kuo,
University of Washington, Department of Sociology, Box 353340, Seattle,
WA 98195. E-mail: dkuo@u.washington.edu. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
63:10628 Logan, John R.; Alba, Richard D.;
McNulty, Tom; Fisher, Brian. Making a place in the
metropolis: locational attainment in cities and suburbs.
Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, Nov 1996. 443-53 pp. Silver Spring,
Maryland. In Eng.
"Data from 1980 for five large [U.S.]
metropolitan regions are used to estimate `locational-attainment
models,' which evaluate the effects of group members' individual
attributes on two measures of the character of their living
environment: the socioeconomic standing (median household income) and
racial composition (proportion non-Hispanic white) of the census tract
where they reside. Separate models predict these outcomes for whites,
blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. Net of the effects of individuals'
background characteristics, whites live in census tracts with the
highest average proportion of white residents and the highest median
household income. They are followed by Asians and Hispanics, and--at
substantially lower levels--blacks. Large overall differences exist
between city and suburban locations; yet the gap between whites and
others is consistently lower in the suburbs than in the cities of these
five metropolitan regions."
This is a revised version of a
paper originally presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Population
Association of America.
Correspondence: J. R. Logan, State
University of New York, Department of Sociology, Albany, NY 12222.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10629 Mason, Andrew.
Population and housing. Population Research and Policy Review,
Vol. 15, No. 5-6, Dec 1996. 419-35 pp. Dordrecht, Netherlands. In Eng.
"The analysis described here was carried out in response to a
political crisis in Australia. In 1994, a Member of Parliament who
opposed the use of foreign aid funds for family planning programs
blocked the passage of the national budget. The impasse was resolved
through a compromise. The use of foreign assistance for population
activities was frozen pending an independent inquiry into the impact of
population on economic development....The purpose of this contribution
to the inquiry was to assess how population growth was affecting the
housing sector and, in turn, economic development. Among other
questions, does population growth increase the demand for residential
land, housing, and urban infrastructure? Demographic methods were
critical to answering the questions, especially assessing the impact of
population growth on the demand for
housing."
Correspondence: A. Mason, East-West Center,
1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10630 Merle, Pierre. The
effect of socio-demographic change on higher education, 1985-1995: an
attempt at an explanation. [Les transformations
socio-démographiques des filières de l'enseignement
supérieur de 1985 à 1995: essai d'interprétation.]
Population, Vol. 51, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1996. 1,181-209 pp. Paris, France.
In Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
"The sustained growth in
student numbers during the last ten years stimulates an examination of
the ways in which different forms of higher education have developed
[in France]. This paper is focused on two aspects: universities and
schools which prepare candidates for the entrance examination to the
Grandes Ecoles. The author defines the socio-demographic changes which
have affected these institutions in terms of four indicators: sex
ratio, geographical distribution, increased numbers, and the social
aspects of recruitment."
Correspondence: P. Merle,
Université Rennes II, IUFM de Bretagne et LESSOR, 6 avenue
Gaston Berger, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10631 Nakagawa, Satoshi.
Changing distribution of university graduates in Japan--from a
cohort-by-cohort perspective. Jinko Mondai Kenkyu/Journal of
Population Problems, Vol. 52, No. 1, Apr 1996. 41-59 pp. Tokyo, Japan.
In Jpn. with sum. in Eng.
"This paper aims at describing and
explaining the changing distribution of university graduates [UGs] in
Japan in order to clarify the effects of interregional migration on
changes in the social class composition of the Tokyo metropolitan area
(TMA) and the rest of Japan (Non-TMA)....The analysis thereby begins
with the distribution of the UGs by 5-year cohort in 1970, 1980 and
1990 measured by location quotients (LQs) of UGs in the TMA....The
paper then proceeds to an analysis of the determining process of the
distribution pattern of the UGs by 5-year
cohort."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10632 Poterba, James M.
Demographic structure and the political economy of public
education. NBER Working Paper, No. 5677, Jul 1996. 37 pp. National
Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]: Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Eng.
"This paper examines the relationship between demographic
structure and the level of government spending on K-12 education. Panel
data for the U.S. states over the 1960-1990 period suggest that an
increase in the fraction of elderly residents in a jurisdiction is
associated with a significant reduction in per child educational
spending. This reduction is particularly large when the elderly
residents and the school-age population are from different racial
groups. Variation in the size of the school-age population does not
result in proportionate changes in education spending, so students in
states with larger school-age populations receive lower per-student
spending than those in states with smaller numbers of potential
students."
Correspondence: National Bureau of Economic
Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. Location:
Princeton University Library (PF).
63:10633 Vallet, Louis-André; Caille,
Jean-Paul. Nationality, birthplace, and other approaches:
comparative relevance to the analysis of schooling in France.
[Nationalité, lieu de naissance et autres approches: pertinence
comparée dans l'étude des scolarités en France.]
Espace, Populations, Sociétés, No. 2-3, 1996. 227-36 pp.
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"Recent
research used data available in the 1989 French Education Longitudinal
Study to investigate differences in school performance and school
trajectories between foreign children, immigrants' children, children
born in France from parents born abroad and other pupils. In this
research, eight criteria were used to approach the population under
focus: nationality..., birth place, number of schooling years outside
France, language spoken at home, membership group of the pupil and
number of foreign attributes. The paper presents the general
methodology of the research, establishes systematic comparisons between
criteria in order to evaluate their pertinence for sociology of
education and summarizes the main results of the
research."
Correspondence: L.-A. Vallet, CREST-INSEE,
Laboratoire de Sociologie Quantitative, Bâtiment Malakoff 2,
Timbre J 350, 15 Boulevard Gabriel Péri, 92245 Malakoff Cedex,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
Descriptive studies of populations on the basis of race, ethnic group, language, and national origin.
63:10634 Cramer, Clayton E. Black
demographic data, 1790-1860: a sourcebook. ISBN 0-313-30243-X. LC
96-38833. 1997. viii, 165 pp. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut.
In Eng.
The changing distribution of the black population of the
United States during the period 1790 to 1860 is analyzed using census
data. The book consists primarily of tables and graphs providing
dimensional representation of blacks, both free and slave, in pre-Civil
War America. It begins with a discussion of the limitations of the
data, and goes on to provide an overview of manumission, abolition, and
the restrictions on black migration. The controversy concerning the
1840 census is also discussed.
Correspondence: Greenwood
Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10635 del Pinal, Jorge H.
Hispanic Americans in the United States: young, dynamic and
diverse. Statistical Bulletin, Vol. 77, No. 4, Oct-Dec 1996. 2-13
pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The author describes the
characteristics of the Hispanic population in the United States.
Aspects considered include population growth since 1980, age, ethnic
groups, state of residence, social and economic characteristics,
education, and occupation.
Correspondence: J. H. del Pinal,
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10636 Furer, Jean-Jacques; Boruvka,
Jan. Romansh in danger? Trends and prospects. [Le
romanche en péril? Evolution et perspective.] Statistique de la
Suisse, ISBN 3-303-16038-4. 1996. 334, [14] pp. Bundesamt für
Statistik: Bern, Switzerland. In Fre. with sum. in Ger.
The authors
use data from the 1990 and earlier censuses to analyze trends in the
speaking of the Romansh language in Switzerland over the past century,
the current distribution and usage of Romansh, and its prospects for
future survival.
Correspondence: Bundesamt für
Statistik, Hallwylstrasse 15, 3003 Bern, Switzerland. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10637 Owen, David. The spatial
and socio-economic patterns of minority ethnic groups in Great
Britain. Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1995.
27-35 pp. Glasgow, Scotland. In Eng.
"This paper considers the
manner in which people from minority ethnic groups relate to the
spatial and socio-economic organisation of Great Britain. It presents a
classification of local authority districts based on 1981 and 1991
Census data and explores the distribution of nine minority ethnic
groups across the eight types of district identified. The
socio-economic characteristics of minority ethnic groups in each
cluster are then examined in order to determine the types of locality
in which minority ethnic groups fare relatively well or
badly."
Correspondence: D. Owen, University of
Warwick, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, Coventry CV4 7AL,
England. Location: New York Public Library, New York, NY.
63:10638 Pawliczko, Ann L.
Ukraine and Ukrainians throughout the world: a demographic and
sociological guide to the homeland and its diaspora. ISBN
0-8020-0595-0. 1994. xxxiii, 508 pp. University of Toronto Press:
Toronto, Canada. In Eng.
"A surprising number of the world's
58 million Ukrainians have settled in Europe, North and South America,
Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
This...work...offers a survey of this...population. It is at once a
demographic hand book that provides up-to-date statistical data and an
ethnographic study of a people struggling to preserve their identity
despite decades of denationalization policies in the homeland and the
forces of assimilation abroad. The opening chapters offer an overview
of contemporary Ukraine and its ties with Ukrainians who have
emigrated. Individual articles...focus on the numerous Ukrainian
settlements throughout the world. The authors explore each local
populations's immigration history and community life, as well as its
economic, political, professional, and social participation in the
country of settlement. Theories of assimilation, problems of ethnic
group survival, and the future of Ukrainians as an ethnic group are
among the topics discussed in detail."
Correspondence:
University of Toronto Press, Front Campus, Toronto, Ontario M5S
1A1, Canada. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10639 Price, Charles. Ethnic
intermixture of migrants and indigenous peoples in Australia.
People and Place, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1996. 12-6 pp. Clayton, Australia. In
Eng.
"Claims concerning the size of ethnic and indigenous
communities need to be considered in the light of intermixture with
other communities. Intermixture levels are in fact high for most of
Australia's ethnic and indigenous peoples."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
63:10640 Rao, K. V. Growth and
structure of Asian Indians in the United States: a census
analysis. Demography India, Vol. 25, No. 1, Jan-Jun 1996. 35-60
pp. Delhi, India. In Eng.
"In this paper, we have examined the
growth and structure of [the] Asian Indian population in the United
States since 1980. The PUMS of 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census were the
primary sources of this study....It was apparent from our analysis that
there was more confusion about the term employed to describe people of
India with that of American Indians." Aspects considered include
population size, spatial distribution, marital status and education,
earnings, fertility and family size preferences, and education and
fertility.
Correspondence: K. V. Rao, Bowling Green State
University, Department of Sociology, India Network and Research
Foundation, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10641 Shantakumar, G. The
Indian population of Singapore: at the cross roads of development.
Population Review, Vol. 40, No. 1-2, Jan-Dec 1996. 43-72 pp. La Jolla,
California. In Eng.
This is an analysis of the demographic and
socioeconomic characteristics of the population of Singapore of Indian
origin. Some comparisons are made with the country's other main ethnic
groups.
Correspondence: G. Shantakumar, National University
of Singapore, Department of Economics and Statistics, 10 Kent Ridge
Crescent, Singapore 119260. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
63:10642 Sun, Huaiyang; Li, Xiru.
The evolution and current status of China's Tibetan
population. Chinese Journal of Population Science, Vol. 8, No. 2,
1996. 221-9 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"Through analyses
on the changes in the mortality rate, total population size, regional
population distribution, gender-specific age structure, and the
population nationality structure in major habitats of Tibetan residents
since the founding of the People's Republic, this article shows that
the Tibetan population size has been on the steady increase, mortality
rate has seen marked decrease, and the rights of existence of Tibetan
people have been fully guaranteed since the establishment of the
Communist Government in 1949."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
63:10643 Trocsanyi, Andras. The
linguistic pattern of Hungarian population. Population Geography,
Vol. 16, No. 1-2, Jun-Dec 1994. 1-10 pp. Chandigarh, India. In Eng.
"This study focuses on some aspects of the linguistic
geography of Hungary....Hungary today is a small country having a
relatively homogeneous ethnic composition. However, it shows several
interesting peculiarities when examined in terms of its linguistic
pattern. The main goal of the study is to reveal these peculiarities
and to find explanations for the great territorial differences therein.
Along with a universal use of Hungarian as the first language, an
east-west, a core-periphery and a north-south dichotomy is observed in
respect of the second language knowledge."
Correspondence:
A. Trocsanyi, University of Pécs, Department of General
Human Geography and Urbanistics, Pécs, Hungary. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
