We use household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 44 surveys (in 35 countries) to document different patterns in the enrollment and attainment of children from rich and poor households. We overcome the lack of income or expenditure data in the DHS by constructing a proxy for long-run wealth of the household from the asset information in the survey using the statist...

I find that when people talk about water, they how feel are around it—the tranquil sense achieve as look at the ripples on a lake, crashing waves beach, or meandering bends in river. They share their joy of swimming fishing it, boating it. Rarely, however, do engineering marvel delivering water to home place business. What does tell us? AWWA's Water 2050 program is charting future year 2050. It...

objective: to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice variables and obstetric fistula status in ethiopia. materials and methods: the most recent ethiopia demographic and health survey conducted in 2005 is used to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice and obstetric fistula. we use both univariate and ...

Statistics obtained from a national sample of visits to organized family planning clinics are presented for women under age 20 years. Patients are described in terms of social and demographic characteristics in relation to pregnancy history, contraceptive use before and after the visit, and types of medical services received. A comparison of the pregnancy history and contraceptive use of teenag...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to investigate the modelling of different processes that could account for the link between psychopathology, cognitive social and demographic risk factors and enacting assault by husband. method: this article reports a test using data on 230 males who participated in a family violence survey study. the sample was selected by a multiclustral samplin...

Population demographic history may be learned from contemporary genetic variation data. Methods based on aggregating the statistics of many single loci into an allele frequency spectrum (AFS) have proven powerful, but such methods ignore potentially informative patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between neighboring loci. To leverage such patterns, we developed a composite-likelihood framew...

This paper analyzed the impact of domestic violence on HIV vulnerability using the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. Fuzzy set method was used to construct indices of HIV vulnerability and its correlates were determined by Tobit regression. It was found that among the selected HIV vulnerability attributes, the number of other wives contributed the most (10.30 percent) to HIV vulner...