Family Matters No.63 Spring/Summer 2002 Australian Institute of Family Studies 14 gradual fertility decline from 1.91 in 1990 to 1.73 in 2001. Overall, the fertility rate has halved from 3.55 to 1.73 in a period of just 40 years. Changes in fertility do not occur in isolation from other social, cultural and economic changes. Although it is often difficult to establish cause and effect patterns,...

PURPOSE The study was conducted to assess the marital status and fertility in adults with epilepsy. METHODS The study group consisted of 240 subjects with epilepsy aged 15 and above, Unmarried males (m) 55, unmarried females (f) 73 and married males 48, married females 64. Data was collected according to standard protocol regarding age, sex, age at marriage and onset of seizure, effect of epi...

The relationship between female education and fertility is varied and complex but extensively discussed in the literature. This article re-assesses the relationship between female education and fertility using data from Demographic and Health Surveys. Fifty-eight countries are explored. One problem with education variable in DHS data is the inconsistencies in the definition of education categor...

It is widely known that shifts of cohort fertility schedule can produce misleading trends in period TFR. This note shows that such a “tempo bias” can occur in age-specific mortality as well: if the age distribution of cohort deaths shifts toward older (younger) ages, the period age-specific death rate is biased downward (upward). 1 Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Av...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality has declined significantly since 1990. While better access to emergency obstetrical care is partially responsible, women's empowerment might also be a contributing factor. Gender equality composite measures generally include various dimensions of women's advancement, including educational parity, formal employment, and political participation. In this paper, we com...

BACKGROUND During the last three decades, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has fallen considerably; from 6.5 per woman in 1983 to 1.89 in 2010. This paper analyzes the extent to which economic determinants at the micro and macro levels are associated with the number of children in Iranian households. METHODS Household data from the 2010 Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) is ...

It is predicted that Japan and European Union will soon experience appreciable decreases in their populations due to persistently low total fertility rates (TFR) below replacement level (2.1 child per woman). In the United States, where TFR has also declined, there are ethnic differences. Caucasians have rates below replacement, while TFRs among African-Americans and Hispanics are higher. We re...

OBJECTIVE Serum levels of the soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) vary depending on the erythropoietic activity and iron status. In vitro, sTfR shed in the incubation medium correlates well with cellular TfR, but this relationship has never been established in vivo. To determine the value of serum sTfR as a quantitative marker of the body mass of tissue TfR, we designed experiments to examine t...

BACKGROUND Compromised bone stock and heavily impaired structural integrity after multiple endoprosthetic revision surgeries can lead to a comparable condition as encountered in musculoskeletal tumor surgery. Total femoral replacement (TFR) can restore femoral integrity and allow patients to resume ambulation. Even though several authors reported their results of TFR, so far many questions are ...