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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Mozambique, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Mozambique, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Namibia, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Namibia, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Nicaragua, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Nicaragua, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Niger, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Niger, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Paraguay, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Paraguay, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Peru, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Peru, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Philippines, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Philippines, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Rwanda, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Rwanda, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Senegal, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Senegal, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Tanzania, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Tanzania, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Togo, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Togo, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Turkey, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Turkey, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Zambia, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Zambia, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Zimbabwe, Population Council Jan 2003

Selected Dhs Data On 10–14-Year-Olds: Zimbabwe, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey—Statistical tables for program planning"

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Adolescent And Youth Sexual And Reproductive Health: Charting Directions For A Second Generation Of Programming, Population Council Jan 2003

Adolescent And Youth Sexual And Reproductive Health: Charting Directions For A Second Generation Of Programming, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with the Population Council, convened a three-day workshop May 1–3, 2002, at the Population Council’s headquarters in New York. The workshop provided an opportunity to review research and programs in the area of adolescent reproductive health and development (the “first generation”) and to think critically about key lessons learned from this work as we move forward into the “second generation” of work with this important population. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from that workshop. Key points are gathered into two clusters: those that underscore principles of program planning, design, and …

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Phosphatase Regulation Of Cftr, John W. Hanrahan, Tang Zhu, L. Daniel Howell Jan 2003

Phosphatase Regulation Of Cftr, John W. Hanrahan, Tang Zhu, L. Daniel Howell

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) chloride channel is tightly regulated by the opposing actions of protein kinases and phosphatases. Its phosphorylation and activation by protein kinases A (PKA) and C (PKC) have been studied in some detail but phosphatase regulation of the channel has received less attention. Several phosphatases may control CFTR in various cell types, however in epithelia most deactivation is mediated by a membrane-bound phosphatase with functional properties resembling those of PP2C, the prototypic member of the PPM gene family of serinelthreonine phosphatases. The PP2C-like phosphatase requires Mg2+, is insensitive to the inhibitors okadaic acid and …

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Stochastic Game Approach To Air Operations, Ben G. Fitzpatrick, William M. Mceneaney, Istvan G. Lauko Jan 2003

Stochastic Game Approach To Air Operations, Ben G. Fitzpatrick, William M. Mceneaney, Istvan G. Lauko

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

A Command and Control (C2) problem for Military Air Operations is addressed. Specifically, we consider C2 problems for air vehicles against ground based targets and defensive systems. The problem is viewed as a stochastic game. In this paper, we restrict our attention to the C2 level where the problem may consist of a few UCAVs or aircraft (or possibly teams of vehicles); less than say, a half-dozen enemy SAMs; a few enemy assets (viewed as targets from our standpoint); and some enemy decoys (assumed to mimic SAM radar signatures). At this low level, some targets are …

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Evidence-Based Development Of Health And Family Planning Programs In Bangladesh And Ghana, James F. Phillips, Tanya C. Jones, Frank K. Nyonator, Shruti Ravikumar Jan 2003

Evidence-Based Development Of Health And Family Planning Programs In Bangladesh And Ghana, James F. Phillips, Tanya C. Jones, Frank K. Nyonator, Shruti Ravikumar

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper describes two initiatives that have used experimental studies to guide the development of community-based health and family planning programs. In Bangladesh and Ghana, factorial experiments were implemented in stages. An exploratory phase developed a service system for community-based health care; an experimental phase assessed the demographic impact of the system; a replication phase examined the transferability of the experimental program to a non-research setting; and a scaling-up phase facilitated the extension of the new system to the national health care program. All stages were guided by research, with questions, mechanisms, and outcomes shifting as the process developed. Large-scale …

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Determinants Of Old-Age Mortality In Taiwan, Zachary Zimmer, Linda G. Martin, Hui-Sheng Lin Jan 2003

Determinants Of Old-Age Mortality In Taiwan, Zachary Zimmer, Linda G. Martin, Hui-Sheng Lin

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Relationships among socio-demographic characteristics, general assessments of health, and old-age mortality are well established in developed countries. There is also an increasing focus on the connection between early-life experiences and latelife health. This paper tests these and other associations using representative survey data from Taiwan on the population aged 60 and older in 1989, 1993, and 1996 that have been linked to data on deaths between 1989 and 1999 from a national death registry. The study also explores the possible influence of Taiwan’s Universal Health Insurance Program, instituted in 1995, and whether or not the survival of some groups of …

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Estimating Mean Lifetime, John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney Jan 2003

Estimating Mean Lifetime, John Bongaarts, Griffith Feeney

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The life expectancy implied by current age-specific mortality rates is calculated with life table methods that are among the oldest and most fundamental tools of demography. We demonstrate that these conventional estimates of period life expectancy are affected by an undesirable “tempo effect.” The tempo effect is positive when the mean age at death is rising and negative when the mean age is declining. Estimates of the effect for females in three countries with high and rising life expectancy range from 1.6 years in the United States and Sweden to 2.4 years in France for the period 1980-95.

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Completing The Fertility Transition In The Developing World: The Role Of Educational Differences And Fertility Preferences, John Bongaarts Jan 2003

Completing The Fertility Transition In The Developing World: The Role Of Educational Differences And Fertility Preferences, John Bongaarts

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This study summarizes patterns of educational differentials in wanted and unwanted fertility at different stages of the fertility transition based on data from DHS surveys in 57 less developed countries. As the transition proceeds, educational differentials in wanted fertility tend to decline and differentials in unwanted fertility tend to rise. An assessment of fertility patterns in more and less developed countries with low fertility concludes that these differentials are likely to remain substantial when less developed countries reach the end of their transitions. This finding implies that the educational composition of the population remains a key predictor of overall fertility …

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The Ghana Community-Based Health Planning And Services Initiative: Fostering Evidence-Based Organizational Change And Development In A Resource-Constrained Setting, Frank K. Nyonator, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, James F. Phillips, Tanya C. Jones, Robert A. Miller Jan 2003

The Ghana Community-Based Health Planning And Services Initiative: Fostering Evidence-Based Organizational Change And Development In A Resource-Constrained Setting, Frank K. Nyonator, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, James F. Phillips, Tanya C. Jones, Robert A. Miller

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an impact on what national health programs actually do. An approach to evidence-based policy development has been launched in Ghana that bridges the gap between research and program implementation. The Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative employs strategies tested in the successful Navrongo experiment to guide national health reforms that mobilize volunteers, resources, and cultural institutions to support community-based primary health care. Over the 1999 to 2002 period, 100 out of the 110 districts in Ghana adopted a CHPS initiative. This paper reviews features of the initiative …

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Primary Schooling In Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Trends And Current Challenges, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Paul C. Hewett Jan 2003

Primary Schooling In Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Trends And Current Challenges, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Paul C. Hewett

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

At the dawn of the twenty-first century we estimate that more than 37 million young adolescents aged 10-14 in sub-Saharan Africa will not complete primary school. Our estimates are based on data from nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys from 26 countries, collectively representing 83 percent of the sub-Saharan youth population. This number is nearly twice the entire population of children aged 10-14 in the United States, virtually all of whom will complete primary school. Reducing the number of uneducated African youth is a primary objective of the United Nations as laid out in the Millennium Development Goal for education, …

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The Feasibility Of Computer-Assisted Survey Interviewing In Africa: Experience From Two Rural Districts In Kenya, Paul C. Hewett, Annabel Erulkar, Barbara Mensch Jan 2003

The Feasibility Of Computer-Assisted Survey Interviewing In Africa: Experience From Two Rural Districts In Kenya, Paul C. Hewett, Annabel Erulkar, Barbara Mensch

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper explores the use of an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) methodology in a household survey of adolescents in two districts of Kenya. Computer software was developed as part of a research project comparing audio-CASI with traditional methods of interviewing about sensitive behaviors, including sexual initiation, risky sexual behavior, coerced sex, and drug and alcohol use. The paper describes the experience of carrying out a household-based study using computers and explores the technical challenges faced by the data collection teams. Few problems emerged with the computer hardware and software, despite the difficult interviewing conditions. The adolescent respondents easily adapted to …

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Condom Use And Abstinence Among Unmarried Young People In Zimbabwe: Which Strategy, Whose Agenda?, Ravai Marindo, Steve Pearson, John B. Casterline Jan 2003

Condom Use And Abstinence Among Unmarried Young People In Zimbabwe: Which Strategy, Whose Agenda?, Ravai Marindo, Steve Pearson, John B. Casterline

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper compares the views about abstinence and condom use expressed by young people in Zimbabwe in focus-group discussions with the views underlying national policies and religious and traditional beliefs. Young people’s decisions to adopt one or the other of these risk-reduction strategies may not necessarily indicate genuine individual choices, but rather their deference to adults’ interests as they understand those interests. Policymakers and traditional and Christian leaders promote abstinence as the exclusive strategy for all young people, whereas nongovernmental organizations and the private sector promote condom use. Evidence from the focus-group discussions indicates that adolescents are aware of this …

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Wage Work And Marriage: Perspectives Of Egyptian Working Women [Arabic], Sajeda Amin, Nagah Hassan Al Bassusi Jan 2003

Wage Work And Marriage: Perspectives Of Egyptian Working Women [Arabic], Sajeda Amin, Nagah Hassan Al Bassusi

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper explores young working women’s perceptions of marriage and work in contemporary Egypt at a time when an increase in age at marriage was evident from national survey data. Data from two nationally representative labor surveys, the Labor Force Sample Survey of 1988 and the Egypt Labor Market Survey of 1998, show that working conditions and employment opportunities declined significantly for young women even as their educational attainment increased. Indepth interviews were conducted with young women working in a range of salaried jobs in three locations: a rural village in Mansoura, a periurban district near Cairo, and in the …

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Population And Development: An Introductory View, Geoffrey Mcnicoll Jan 2003

Population And Development: An Introductory View, Geoffrey Mcnicoll

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

A brief overview of the relationships between population change and economic development, written for readers unfamiliar with the subject. The paper touches on the scale and pace of world development, the economic consequences of population size and rate of growth, patterns of demographic transition, and the scope for policy measures aimed at speeding that transition.

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Population And Development: An Introductory View [Arabic], Geoffrey Mcnicoll Jan 2003

Population And Development: An Introductory View [Arabic], Geoffrey Mcnicoll

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

A brief overview of the relationships between population change and economic development, written for readers unfamiliar with the subject. The paper touches on the scale and pace of world development, the economic consequences of population size and rate of growth, patterns of demographic transition, and the scope for policy measures aimed at speeding that transition.

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Rural Schools In America: Will No Child Be Left Behind? The Elusive Quest For Equal Educational Opportunities, Judith A. Winston Jan 2003

Rural Schools In America: Will No Child Be Left Behind? The Elusive Quest For Equal Educational Opportunities, Judith A. Winston

Nebraska Law Review

This article focuses on how the struggle for educational quality and equality in rural public education is faring today and the degree to which the new federal law, the No Child Left Behind Act, promises a better future for rural schools. Part II provides a composite portrait of the lives of rural students and the communities in which they live. Part III establishes a legal context and brief history of the as yet elusive quest for equality in these communities. Part IV outlines the components of the federal effort to reform education nationally and addresses whether the reform effort is …

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The Campus Crime And Security Report, V. 7 (Fall 2002), Illinois State University Police Department Jan 2003

The Campus Crime And Security Report, V. 7 (Fall 2002), Illinois State University Police Department

Clery Act Annual Security Report

Illinois State University Police Department Annual Security Report

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