نتایج جستجو برای: demographic data

تعداد نتایج: 2463148  

2013
Leena Merdad Kenneth Hill Wendy Graham

BACKGROUND Over the past several decades the efforts to improve maternal survival and the consequent demand for accurate estimates of maternal mortality have increased. However, measuring maternal mortality remains a difficult task especially in developing countries with weak information systems. Sibling histories included in household surveys (most notably the Demographic and Health Surveys (D...

2013
Tabish Hazir Khadija Begum Shams el Arifeen Amira M. Khan M. Hamidul Huque Narjis Kazmi Sushmita Roy Saleem Abbasi Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman Evropi Theodoratou Mahmuda Shayema Khorshed Kazi Mizanur Rahman Sanwarul Bari M. Mahfuzul Islam Kaiser Samir K. Saha A. S. M. Nawshad Uddin Ahmed Igor Rudan Jennifer Bryce Shamim Ahmad Qazi Harry Campbell

BACKGROUND Antibiotic treatment for pneumonia as measured by Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is a key indicator for tracking progress in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Concerns about the validity of this indicator led us to perform an evaluation in urban and rural settings in Pakistan and Bangladesh. METHODS AND FINDINGS Caregivers ...

Journal: :The Gerontologist 1991
J S Grigsby

Developed countries with low fertility and mortality rates are already experiencing population aging and will continue to do so. Some developing countries undergoing demographic transitions are beginning to acknowledge the issues of population aging. The projected declines in fertility in other developing countries will mean substantial population aging in the future. Alternative measures for p...

2013
Md Rafiqul ISLAM Md Mahfuzar RAHMAN Md Obaidur RAHMAN

Childhood mortality is one of the sensitive indices of health as well as development which often reflect the standard of living of a country. Moreover, it is considered as an interesting topic for researcher in Bangladesh because of high childhood mortalit mortality through from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) classified by age of mothers. Moreover, it i average parities per wom...

2013
Günther Fink Isabel Günther Kenneth Hill ETH Zurich

High urban mortality delayed transitions to low mortality in 19th century Europe, but an urban mortality advantage emerged as European transitions progressed into the 20th century. Recent analysis has suggested that high mortality in the rapidly growing urban slums of developing countries might once again delay transitions to low mortality in the 21st century. In this paper we use data from Dem...

2010
Nidhiya Menon Yana van der Meulen Rodgers Yuan Dong Maria Floro Joyce Jacobsen Ana María Ibáñez Londoño Olga Shemyakina

This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women’s employment decisions. Results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women’s employment probabilities were substantially highe...

2013
Joseph R. Cummins Tania Barham Jorge Agüero

This paper addresses the problem of model misspecification bias when estimating cohort-level determinants of child height-for-age zscore (HAZ) using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). I show that the combination of DHS survey design and the biological realities of child health in developing countries create an artifact that can strongly bias regression estimates when identifica...

2010
Luca Mancini

The paper compares measures of socio-economic inequality between population groups in Ghana and Nigeria using nationally representative survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). In particular, the paper focuses attention on the politically salient north-south divide. Different dimensions of inequality such as education, employment, household wealth and child mortality as well a...

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