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Integration At Late Life: Inclusion, Participation, And Belonging Among The Elderly, Zenaida R. Ravanera, Rajulton Fernando

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Family Transformations And The Well-Being Of Children: Recent Evidence From Canadian Longitudinal Data, Don Kerr

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This paper uses longitudinal data to examine negative child outcomes among young children in Canada. In following a cohort of children as they move through their early elementary school years, a slight decline in hyperactivity is documented, as is a slight increase in internalizing difficulties. After introducing a longitudinal dimension to our analysis, both family structure and income poverty are found to have a weaker effect on child outcomes than was initially anticipated. The current analysis also demonstrates the utility of LISREL’s “weighted least squares” estimation procedure in the development of structural equation models while working with ordinal and/or censored …

Missing Data In Quantitative Social Research, S. Obeng-Manu Gyimah

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Almost invariably, the data available to the social scientist display one or more characteristics of missing information. Even though reasons for non response are varied, most frequently, they reflect the unwillingness of respondents to provide information on undesirable social behaviours and on issues considered as private. Besides these, sloppy research designs often leads to ambiguous and poorly structured survey questions which provide a recipe for low response. Longitudinal surveys also suffer from incompleteness due to attrition resulting from death and emigration, while in retrospective surveys, memory effect might be a major source of non-response.

While there is no consensus among …

Intergenerational Support And Family Cohesion, Rajulton Fernando, Zenaida R. Ravanera

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Child Morbidity In Kenya: Does Women’S Status Matter?, D. Walter Rasugu Omariba

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This paper utilises data on women from the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey to examine the conditions under which children under the age of five remain healthy or become ill with three fatal diseases, namely, malaria, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infection. The major objective of the paper was to identify the principal determinants of child morbidity and to pinpoint possible areas where current health programmes could be improved to secure greater child survival. Logistic regression is applied on the data to examine the relationship between women status as indicated by various social and economic factors and the morbidity status …

Family Relations, Low Income And Child Outcomes: A Comparison Of Canadian Children In Intact, Step And Lone Parent Families, Don Kerr, Roderic Beaujot

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This paper examines conditions that are more likely to lead to positive or negative child outcomes in intact, female lone parent and reconstituted families. Family type is found to be more important than low income in predicting a set of behavioural, emotional and psychological difficulties. After establishing measurement equivalence across family types, multiple group analysis using structural equation modelling shows that the explanatory factors also operate differently in the various family settings. In particular, low income has a significant impact on childhood difficulties in lone parent and stepfamilies, but not in intact families. Family functioning has less impact on children’s …

The Sociology Of Risk And Social Demographic Change, David Hall

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Earning And Caring: Demographic Change And Policy Implications, Roderic Beaujot

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Seeking to define families as groups of people who share earning and caring activities, we contrast theoretical orientations that see advantages to a division of labour or complementary roles, in comparison to orientations that see less risk and greater companionship in a collaborative model based on sharing paid and unpaid work, or co-providing and co-parenting.

It is important to look both inside and outside of families, or at the changing gendered links between earning and caring, to understand change both in families and in the work world. It is proposed that equal opportunity by gender has advanced further in the …

Perspectives On Below Replacement Fertility In Canada: Trends, Desires, And Accomodations, Roderic Beaujot, Alain Bélanger

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Earnings Implications Of Person Years Lost Life Expectancy Among First Nations Peoples, Paul S. Maxim, Jerry P. White, Paul C. Whitehead, Daniel Beavon

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Teaching The Fundamentals Of Demography: A Models-Based Approach To Family And Fertility, Thomas K. Burch

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An Interpretation Of Family Change, With Implications For Social Cohesion, Roderic Beaujot, Zenaida Ravanera

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Data on family change point to a greater flexibility in the entry and exit from relationships, a delay in the timing of family events, and a diversity of family forms. These changes have undermined the complementary-roles model as women gained equal opportunities in a variety of domains. Children have been affected such that their interests are no longer paramount in the structuring of adult lives. On the whole, the family has been de-institutionalized with less function and less power.

An interpretation of the changes suggests that the family has shifted from a unit of survival in which relations were based …

Toward An Index Of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential For Successful Program Transfer, Paul S. Maxim, Jerry P. White, Paul C. Whitehead

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