Age structure by province in 2003

Province Total po(ppuelrastoionn) (pe0r-s1o4n ) (pe1rs5o-6n4) (pers6o5n+) National 1,260,498 256,344 896,908 107,246 Beijing 14,070 1,486 11,008 1,576 Tianjin 9,956 1,390 7,478 1,088 Hebei 66,569 12,778 48,760 5,031 Shanxi 32,558 7,476 22,769 2,313 Inner Mongolia 23,510 4,288 17,427 1,796 Liaoning 41,549 6,108 31,409 4,032 Jilin 26,684 4,067 20,736 1,881 Heilongjiang 37,693 5,971 29,217 2,505 Shanghai 16,061 1,415 12,017 2,630 Jiangsu 72,967 12,418 52,271 8,278 Zhejiang 45,934 7,400 33,254…     

Demographic changes by province in 2003

Province (year-enTdo, tmali l lpioonp). Birth r(a‰te) Death r(a‰te) Natural irnactree (as‰e) National 1,292.27 12.41 6.40 6.01 Beijing 14.56 5.10 5.20 -0.10 Tianjin 10.11 7.14 6.04 1.10 Hebei 67.69 11.43 6.27 5.16 Shanxi 33.14 12.26 6.04 6.22 Inner Mongolia 23.80 9.24 6.17 3.07 Liaoning 42.10 6.90 5.83 1.07 Jilin 27.04 7.25 5.64 1.61 Heilongjiang 38.15 7.48 5.45 2.03 Shanghai 17.11 4.85 6.20 -1.35 Jiangsu 74.06 9.04 7.03 2.01 Zhejiang 46.80 9.66 6.38 3.28 Anhui 64.10 11.15 5.20 5.95 F…     

Projection of the World Population by Region

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The Percentage of Economically Active Elderly by Sector

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Top Ten News in 2013 Selected by NHFPC

正On January 7,2014,the State Council Information Offi ce held a press conference,at which,Mao Qun’an,news spokesman and director of Department of Publicity of National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC)announced the Top Ten News for China’s Health and Family Planning in 2013selected by NHFPC.     

Is Subjective Status Influenced by Psychosocial Factors?

Objective Associations between subjective status and health are still relatively unexplored. This study aimed at testing whether subjective status is uniquely confounded by psychosocial factors compared to objective status, and what factors that may predict subjective status. Design A cross-sectional analysis of a population-based, random sample of 795 middle-aged men and women from the southeast of Sweden. Questionnaires included subjective status, objective measures of socioeconomic status, life satisfaction, and a battery of psychosocial factors. Associations were controlled for effects of age and sex. Results Both subjective status and occupation were significantly associated with self-rated health also after control for psychosocial factors. Stepwise regression showed that subjective status was significantly influenced by self-rated economy, education, life satisfaction, self-esteem, trust, perceived control, and mastery. Conclusion The association between subjective status and self-rated health does not seem to be uniquely confounded by psychosocial factors. Both resource-based measures and psychological dimensions seem to influence subjective status ratings. Comparative studies are required to study whether predictors of subjective status vary between countries with different socio-political profiles.     

China''''s Population Controlled within 1.3 Billion by 2003

China continued to achieve a low fertility level in 2003, with a birth rate of 13.37 per thousand, a natural increase rate of 7.25 per thousand, and a net increase of no more than 10 million. At the end of 2003, the total population was controlled at 1.294 billion, according to estimates of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC). However, despite a low fertility level, the total number of newly increased population remains high. Meanwhile, the imbalance between dif…     

World Population Aged 60 and Over by Region

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Taiwan＇s Economy Adversely impacted by Dichotomous Migration Pattern

A survey of 2,002 unmarried women under 24 years of age who requested abortions in four Chinese cities indicates that reproductive tract infection (RTI) has become a major factor affecting the reproductive health of unmarried women having abortions.     

Technicians and Family Planning Workers Are Most Favoured by Farmers

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Project of Happy Smile Implemented by China Population Welfare Foundation

In the remote and impoverished areas in China,many families are incapable of paying operation expense as they are poor;their children are bearing the discrimination from the society and huge pressure thereof as they cannot afford for the operation for curing their cleft palate.As lacking of money,many children suffering from this disease have lost their best time for the repairing surgery.     

Ceilings or floors? Gender wage gaps by education in Spain

This paper analyzes the gender gap throughout the wage distribution in Spain using data from the European Community Household Panel. Quantile regression and panel data techniques are used to estimate wage regressions. In contrast with the steep increasing pattern found in other countries, the flatter evolution of the Spanish gender gap hides an intriguing composition effect. For highly educated workers, in line with the conventional glass ceiling hypothesis, the gap increases as we move up the distribution. However, for less-educated workers the gap decreases. We label this novel fact as a floor pattern and argue that it can be explained by statistical discrimination exerted by employers in countries where less-educated women have low participation rates.

Lifespan Variation by Occupational Class: Compression or Stagnation Over Time?

Cross-sectional analyses of adult lifespan variation have found an inverse association between socioeconomic position and lifespan variation, but the trends by social class are unknown. We investigated trends in lifespan variation over four decades (1971–2010) by occupational social class (manual, lower nonmanual, upper nonmanual, other) using Finnish register data. We performed age and cause-of-death decompositions of lifespan variation for each sex (a) by occupational class over time and (b) between occupational classes at a shared level of life expectancy. Although life expectancy increased in all classes, lifespan variation was stable among manual workers and decreased only among nonmanual classes. These differences were caused by early-adult mortality: older-age lifespan variation declined for all the classes, but variation in early-adult mortality increased for all classes except the highest. The manual class’s high and stagnant lifespan variation was driven by declines in circulatory diseases that were equally spread over early mortality-compressing and older mortality-expanding ages, as well as by high early-adult mortality from external causes. Results were similar for men and women. The results of this study, which is the first to document trends in lifespan variation by social class, suggest that mortality compression is compatible with increasing life expectancy but currently achieved only by higher occupational classes.     

Destroyed by Slavery? Slavery and African American Family Formation Following Emancipation

This study introduces a new sample that links people and families across 1860, 1880, and 1900 census data to explore the intergenerational impact of slavery on black families in the United States. Slaveholding—the number of slaves owned by a single farmer or planter—is used as a proxy for experiences during slavery. Slave family structures varied systematically with slaveholding sizes. Enslaved children on smaller holdings were more likely to be members of single-parent or divided families. On larger holdings, however, children tended to reside in nuclear families. In 1880, a child whose mother had been on a farm with five slaves was 49 % more likely to live in a single-parent household than a child whose mother had been on a farm with 15 slaves. By 1900, slaveholding no longer had an impact. However, children whose parents lived in single-parent households were themselves more likely to live in single-parent households and to have been born outside marriage.     

Mean Age of the Ethnic Population in Yunnan Increases by 36 years

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Multistate projections by level of education for Portugal, 2011–2031

Educational attainment is an attribute that leads to a great distinction between the members of a population, including when considering their health and well-being, which are features to pursue within an aging society. The aim of this work was to produce demographic projections for the Portuguese population by sex, age group and level of educational attainment, for the period 2011–2031. Considering fertility, mortality and migration differentials by level of education, the population was projected using the multistate cohort-component method with a block Leslie matrix. Two scenarios were considered, one where educational attainment before 2011 remains constant and another in which educational attainment will follow the trend observed over the last decade, being the trend in the state proportion modelled using continuation ratio models. The results show an increase in the proportion of individuals who complete higher educational levels in almost all age groups of both sexes. Among women, only 13.6 % had completed some level of higher education in 2011, a figure that will rise to approximately 23.4 % in 2031, whereas among men this value was only 9.7 % and will also rise by 2031, reaching 15.5 %. We can expect the proportion of people with higher educational levels to continue to rise as the education of younger cohorts seems to evolve positively. This work will be particularly useful to study how the aging population and the rising levels of education can contribute to the planning and monitoring of public policies, although these findings can also be used in other research contexts.     

Displacement and household adaptation: insured by the spouse or the state?

We investigate the added worker effect in a setting where female labour supply is high and the welfare state is generous. We trace couples’ labour supply and income development following the husband’s job displacement. We find no support for the added worker effect for the full sample of households. However, the added worker effect seems to be at work for subsamples characterised by households where the spouses are not working in the same industry and where the wife did not work full time pre-displacement. When using a measure of total household income, which includes public transfers, we find that the negative income impact of displacement is reduced by approximately 60 to 70 % when we also adjust for lower tax payments. Results suggest that income loss due to displacement is mitigated more by social welfare payments than by labour supply responses of the spouse.