Poster Session 1: Poster Session

Friday, June 23 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Mountford Hall

1.	Projections of living arrangements of the elderly by sex, age, and household position in Poland  •  Anita Abramowska, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics

2.	Economic consequences of immigration from Turkey  •  Bulent Acma, Anadolu University, Turkey

3.	Determinants of unintended pregnancy among currently married women in Nepal  •  Ramesh Adhikari, Center for Research on Environment, Health and Population Activities (CREHPA); Kusol Soonthorndhada, IPSR, Thailand; Pramote Prasartkul, Mahidol University

4.	Disability in India: an overview  •  Praween Kumar Agrawal, Johns Hopkins University and Collaborative Centre, Lucknow, India

5.	Women’s autonomy and its impact on fertility decision making: a study in rural Haryana, India in the perspective of low child sex ratio  •  Sutapa Agrawal, Independent Consultant

6.	Practicing preachers: reproductive behavior of rural health workers in Iran  •  Shirin Ahmadnia, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology, Iran; Amir-Houshang Mehryar, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran; Nahid Salehi, Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific

7.	Reproductive health knowledge and attitudes among Iranian adolescents  •  Shirin Ahmad-Nia, Ministry of Science, Iran

8.	Reasons of postponement of births: comparison of Estonia and Finland  •  Mare Ainsaar, Tartu University; Pirjo Paajanen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki

9.	Administrative sources and population statistics  •  Fiona Aitchison, Office for National Statistics, UK

10.	Fatherhood in Russia - Evaluation of biological and fanthropological assumptions with demographic data  •  David Alich, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

11.	Trends on diabetes and obesity prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of the literature and new estimates  •  Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

12.	Factors affecting attitude toward safe sex and reproductive health among Shiraz City youth  •  Farah Asna-Ashari, Ministry of Education, Iran; Habib Ahmadi, Shiraz University, Iran

13.	Population environment and development: some issues in sustainability of Indian mega-cities of New Delhi and Kolkata(Calcutta)  •  Anuradha Banerjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Sharmistha Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University

14.	Residential mobility of foreign population in Barcelona, 2000-2004  •  Jordi Bayona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Antonio López, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

15.	Kinship relationships and reproductive biographies in Italy  •  Laura Bernardi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Paola Di Giulio, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

16.	Knowledge and use of developmental thinking about societies and families among teenagers in Argentina  •  Georgina Binstock, Centro de Estudios de Población; Arland Thornton, University of Michigan

17.	A different understanding of probability in a probabilistic population projection model and its outcomes  •  Christina Bohk, University of Rostock; Thomas Salzmann, University of Rostock

18.	Marital union dissolution in East and West Germany - The impact of women's labour force participation on marital stability  •  Karin Böttcher, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

19.	Pathway to a third child in France. impact of family policy and sociodemographic factors  •  Didier Breton, Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg 2 and Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); France Prioux, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

20.	Projecting the immigrant population of Norway by age, sex and country background  •  Helge Brunborg, Statistics Norway; Inger Texmon, Statistics Norway

21.	Health attitudes and behaviour as predictors of self-rated health in relation to mortality patterns (17 year follow-up in Polish elderly - Cracow study)  •  Piotr Brzyski; Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk

22.	Age at menopause and menopausal transition: perspectives of Indian rural women  •  Hussain Khan C. G., Karnatak University, Dharwad; Jyoti S Hallad, JSS Institute of Economic Research, Dharwad, India

23.	The heirs of sexual revolution  •  Marcantonio Caltabiano, Università di Padova; Francesco C. Billari, Università Bocconi; Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, University of Padua

25.	The economics of population ageing in Turkey: a country at the onset of population ageing  •  Sebnem Canpolat, Hacettepe University

26.

Concentration of mortality increase among manual workers in soviet Latvia and Russia  •  Elwood Carlson, Florida State University; Evgeni Andreev, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Rasmus Hoffmann, University of Rostock; Tatiana Kharkova, Russian Academy of Science; Vladimir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

27.	The decline of fertility in Scotland compared with England  •  Patrick Carroll

28.	Induced abortion and contraception in central Asian states and Turkey  •  Alanur Cavlin Bozbeyoglu, Hacettepe University

29.	Data quality assessment of birth history data in Turkey demographic and health surveys  •  Yadigar Coskun, Hacettepe University

30.	Men and women after a union dissolution. Gender differences in economic and living condition  •  Alessandra De Rose, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; Daniele Spagnoli

31.	Mortality and life expectancy of elderly people after World War II in Hungary  •  Erzsébet Debreceni, Center for Social Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

32.	Factors affecting the population fertility level: an evaluation of the factor “difficulties reconciling work and family” in Navarra (Spain)”  •  Nuria Del Olmo, University of Navarra; Carolina Montoro, University of Navarra; Dolores Lopez, University of Navarra

33.	The evolution of fertility in Europe: a parity analysis  •  Daniel Devolder, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

34.	Breast-feeding pattern and its impact on post-partum non-susceptible period of currently married women(15-49) in an Indian state using multivariate hazard model and life table techniques  •  Shankar Dihidar, Indian Statistical Institute

35.	Method of nested linear convolutions for estimating the population's health quality  •  Marina Djakovich, Institute of industrial medicine and human Ecology, Russia; Ivan Finogenko, Institute of Industrial Medicine and Human Ecology, Russia

36.	Adult mortality in a rural area of Senegal: trends and causes of death  •  Géraldine Duthé, Institut national d'études démographiques (INED); Gilles Pison, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

38.	Modernization and fertility inhibiting strategies of socieconomic and cultural groups in Turkey  •  Mehmet Ali Eryurt, Hacettepe University

39.	Transitioning motherhood: entering adulthood with a baby  •  Ann Evans, Australian National University

40.

The demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences  •  Gustav Feichtinger, Vienna University of Technology; Maria E. Winkler-Dworak, Vienna Institute of Demography; Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography; Inga Freund, Vienna Institute of Demography; Vladimir Veliov, Vienna University of Technology

41.

Exploring demographic differences in health status and health services use by older adults. A comparative study between Canada and Spain  •  Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas, Institute of Economics and Geography. Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Mark W Rosenberg, Queen's University, Australia; Fermina Rojo-Perez, Institute of Economics and Geography. Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Maria-Eugenia Prieto-Flores, Institute of Economics and Geography. Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Jennifer Goy, Queen's University, Australia; Cecilia Esparza-Catalan, Institute of Economics and Geography. Spanish Council for Scientific Research

42.	Economics, multiculturalism, and gender:competing factors influencing women’s economic behaviour in multicultural setting  •  Yaghoob Foroutan, Australian National University

43.	Sociological roots and epistemological evaluations of populaton theories  •  Yuri Frantsuz, University of Minnesota

44.

Changes in the selected life course events of the Polish Females and Males. Evidence from two Polish Retrospective Surveys: 1991 and 2001  •  Ewa Fratczak, Warsaw School of Economics; Janina Jozwiak, Warsaw School of Economics; Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska, Warsaw School of Economics; Kamil Sienkiewicz, Warsaw School of Economics; Urszula Gach-Ciepiela, Warsaw School of Economics

45.	Understanding low fertility in Athens and London: a comparative ethnographic study  •  Katerina Georgiadis, University College London

46.	Levels, differentials and determinants of morbidity in West Bengal, India  •  Soumitra Ghosh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

47.

Disparity in injury morbidity and mortality among one-four year children- findings from bangladesh health and injury survey: implication for developing countries  •  M Sheikh Giashudddin, Center for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh; A Rahman, Institute of Child and Mother Health; AKM Fazlur Rahman, Center for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB)

48.	Social networks and social capital in the immigration process into Hungary  •  Irén Gödri, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

49.	Gender and family attitudes in early adulthood in Sweden. What is happening to the adult children of Iimmigrants?  •  Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University; Fran Goldscheider, Brown University; Eva Bernhardt, Stockholm University

50.	Does space/time dynamics influence the decision to cohabit? Regional patterns of cohabitation in Spain, 1990-2005  •  María José González, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; Pau Baizán, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Amy Hsin, University of California, Los Angeles

51.	Russian married women and men in ageing: demographic and social characteristics  •  Irina Gorchkova, Moscow Lomonosov State University

52.	Alternative measurements of the ageing of the labour force. Demo-economic dependency ratios in the case of Italy (2000-2050)  •  Francesca Greguoldo, Univeristy of Rome, La Sapienza

53.

Integration and second generation of immigrants in Italy: an empirical analysis according to the social network perspective  •  Antonella Guarneri, Università La Sapienza-Roma; Luisa Natale, Università di Cassino; Giulia Rivellini, Università Cattolica, Milan; Maura Simone, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

54.	Application of remote sensing and GIS for population explosion and land transformation studies in Jaipur region-India  •  Rupesh Gupta, University of Delhi,Delhi,India

55.	Spatial homogamy in the Netherlands: mapping distances between partners  •  Karen Haandrikman, University of Groningen; Leo van Wissen, University of Groningen and Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); Carel Harmsen, Statistics Netherlands; Inge Hutter, University of Groningen

56.	Disability in Bulgaria – Does it increase or decrease during the period 1992-2004?  •  Kaloyan Haralampiev, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

57.	Fertility change and its proximate determinants in Bangladesh  •  Abu Hasanat Mohammad kishowar Hossain, University of Dhaka

58.	Educational differences in the timing of childbearing in Hungary  •  Ildikó Husz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

59.	An analysis of determinants of internal migration in Russia  •  Vladimir Iontsev, Moscow State University; Ivan Aleshkovski, Moscow State University

60.	Effective factors on different attitudes of two successive generations towards marriage and fertility. case study: women in Shiraz Iran  •  Jalil Iranmahboob, Centre for Population Studies & Research, Iran; Sahel Taherianfard, Centre for Population Studies & Research, Iran

61.	Sexual and health behaviour of female floating sex workers in Bangladesh: an emerging health issue  •  M. Mazharul Islam, University of Dhaka

62.	Contraceptive discontinuation, failure and switching behavior in Bangladesh: levels, trends, determinants and policy implications  •  M. Mazharul Islam, University of Dhaka; Nitai Chakroborty

63.	Men’s awareness of pregnancy care in Bangladesh: a multilevel data analysis  •  Mohammad Amirul Islam, University of Southampton; Sabu S. Padmadas, University of Southampton; Peter W.F. Smith, University of Southampton

65.	Overcoming hegemonic norms and binaries in demography: gender, ‘race’ and sexuality within academic demographic discourse  •  Nadja Jacubowski, University of Groningen; Ajay Bailey, University of Groningen; Inge Hutter, University of Groningen

66.	Suicidal mortality in Russia and Ukraine  •  Diana L Jdanova, Independent Consultant; Nataliya M Levchuk, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

67.	Measures of widowhood in contemporary China  •  Quanbao Jiang, Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Shuzhuo Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University

68.	International migration and Russia  •  Andrey Kamenskiy

69.

Sterilization in Iran: wide use of a radical method in a fundamentalist Islamic society  •  Shahla Kazemi-pour Sabet, Faculty of Social Sciences,Tehran University; Amir-Houshang Mehryar, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran; Bahram Delavar, Ministry of Science, Iran.; Hassan Eini Zinab, Regional Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific; Sahel Taherianfard, Centre for Population Studies & Research, Iran

70.	Demographic transition and marital status of women in Iran  •  Shahla Kazemi-pour Sabet, Faculty of Social Sciences,Tehran University; Mohammad Mirzaie, University of Tehran; Abtin Rahimian, Population Studies and Research Center, Iran

71.	The fertility pattern among non-Estonians in Estonia follows the trends in St. Petersburg  •  Katja Kesseli, University of Helsinki; Mika Gissler, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES)

72.

Does fertility decrease the welfare of households? An analysis of poverty dynamics and fertility in Indonesia  •  Jungho Kim, Vienna Institute of Demography; Henriette Engelhardt, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography; Arnstein Aassve, University of Essex

73.	Demographic differentials and demographic integration of Turkish and Kurdish populations in Turkey  •  Ismet Koc, Hacettepe University; Alanur Cavlin Bozbeyoglu, Hacettepe University

74.	Comparative determination of factors that affect fertility for Turkish and Kurdish populations according to the usage of contraceptive methods  •  Güler Kocberber; Sebnem Canpolat, Hacettepe University

76.	Living arrangements of the elderly in Poland  •  Jolanta Kurkiewicz, Cracow University of Economics

77.	Some immigrants are more transnational than others: transnationalism as differential factor of integration  •  Carmen Lamela, Universidade da Coruña

78.	Cohort fertility patterns and education in the Nordic countries  •  Trude Lappegård, Statistics Norway; Gunnar Andersson, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Aalborg University; Marit Rønsen, Statistics Norway

79.	Where is education in a transition economy heading? The case of Latvia  •  Zane Leduskrasta, University of Latvia

80.	Living Arrangements of Elderly Persons from Migrant Populations in Belgium  •  Edith Lodewijckx, Population and Family Study Centre, Brussels

81.	Mortality and causes of death among persons over 85 in the European Union  •  Laura Lorenzo, Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Elisa Suárez, Spanish Council for Scientific Research

82.	Modern pattern of migration from Uzbekistan to the European countries  •  Lyudmila Maksakova, Center for Effective Economic Policy, Uzbekistan

83.	The multiresidential system of the inhabitants of the Barcelona metropolitan area. The migratory trajectories as explanatory factor  •  Ajenjo Marc; Joan Alberich, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

84.	Nonconsensual marital sex and reproductive health among Filipino youth  •  Maria Paz N. Marquez, University of the Philippines

85.	Attitudes toward gender emancipation and family formation patterns in EEC region  •  Ausra Maslauskaite, Demographic Research Center, Lithuania; Vlada Stankuniene, Demographic Research Center, Lithuania

86.	Who follows whom? Female part-time employment in West Germany, East Germany and Poland  •  Anna Matysiak, Warsaw School of Economics; Stephanie Steinmetz, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and Mannheim University

87.	Living arrangements after marital dissolution: findings from the European Community Household Panel  •  Stefano Mazzuco, Università di Padova; Silvia Meggiolaro, Università di Padova; Fausta Ongaro, Università di Padova

88.

Human development, reproductive behavior and fertility: an analysis of provincial differences in Iran  •  Amir-Houshang Mehryar, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran; Hassan Eini Zinab, Regional Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific; Nader Motie -Haghshenas, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran; Shirin Ahmadnia, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology, Iran

89.	Childless at age 30  •  Anneli Miettinen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki; Pirjo Paajanen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki

90.	Present trends of birth rate in Siberia: an attempt at analysis at macro and micro levels  •  Anna Mikheeva, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

91.	The instrumental character of demographic transition in Republic Of Macedonia  •  Goran Miladinov, Independant Consultant

92.

Female-headed households in a male-dominatedsSociety, Iran  •  Elahe Mirzaee, Regional Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific; Amir-Houshang Mehryar, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran; Gholam Ali Farjadi, Regional Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific

93.	Dimensions of population ageing in Iran and its socioeconomic and health implications: new prospects  •  Nader Motie -Haghshenas, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran

94.	School-to-work transition: gender differences in the choices of the Italian secondary school graduates  •  Paola Muccitelli, Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT); Rottino Fabio Massimo, Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT); Azzurra Tivoli, Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

95.	Cancer mortality is higher among taller men in two cohorts of US Army officers  •  Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg; Allan Mazur, Syracuse University; Afiafi Marie Renee Afanou, University of Marburg

96.	Is investing in population health indeed good for economic growth?  •  Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg; Joerg W. Fromme, Independent Consultant; Ursula F Trummer, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for the Sociology of Health and Medicine, Vienna University; Roberto Lorbeer, University of Marburg

97.	Life span and career outcome in several cohorts of US navy and US army officers - directions of causality  •  Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg; Tobias Biegel, University of Marburg; Kerstin Walter, University of Marburg

98.	Does the “maternal altruism hypothesis” hold true among poor populations in southern India?  •  Sivakami Muthusamy, Institute for Social and Economic Change

99.	Economic and non-economic aspects of individual fertility choices – an example from Poland  •  Monika Mynarska, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

100.

Health transition in Iran: results of the 18 Province study of mortality by cause of death  •  Mohsen Naghavi, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran; Abolghasm Pour Reza, Regional Center for Population Reseach & Studies in Asia and the Pacific; Amir-Houshang Mehryar, Ministry of Science, Research & Technology of Iran

101.

Does reproductive health care srvices reduce the risk of neonatal death among religious minority In Matlab, Bangladesh  •  Lutfun Nahar, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research; Abdur Razzaque, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research; AHM Golam Mustafa, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research

102.	Family structure outcomes of alternative family definitions  •  Charles B. Nam, Florida State University; Kathryn H. Tillman, Florida State University

103.	Health, maternal mortality and morbidity: mother to child survival at higher risk for young women and teenage mothers  •  Onyinye belinda Ndubuisi, Development Partnership International, Nigeria; Comfort Ikechi Uzoho, Development Partnership International, Nigeria

104.	Family policies and fertility in Europe. Fertility policies at the intersection of gender policies, employment policies and care policies  •  Gerda Neyer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

105.	The impact of population mobility on the availability and the adqeuacy of basic services in resettlement camps arround greater Khartoum  •  Osman Nour

106.	Culture and feeding practices: major underlying causes of childhood malnutrition in developing countries  •  Olasupo P. Ogunjuyigbe, Obafemi Awolowo University; Ebenezer Ojofeitimi, Obafemi Awolowo University

107.	Economic consequences of marital dissolution in Italy: findings from European Community Household Panel  •  Fausta Ongaro, Università di Padova; Silvia Meggiolaro, Università di Padova; Stefano Mazzuco, Università di Padova

108.	Highly educated women and reasons to become a mother at different phases of life  •  Pirjo Paajanen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki; Anneli Miettinen, The Population Research Institute, Helsinki

109.	Political borders and demographic trends in Europe  •  Roberta Pace, University of Bari; Lucrezia Andria, University of Bari

110.	Mortality changes Among elderly in Kerala and India: 1970–2000  •  Ramachandran Paida, Sri Venkateswara Univeristy; Jareena Shaik, Sri Venkateswara University

111.	Roma/Gypsy population in Bulgaria as a challenge for the policy relevance  •  Alexey Pamporov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

113.	The disassociation between the onset of sexual and marital life of the urban women and men in Mexico  •  Adriana Pérez Amador, National Institute of Statistics Geography and Informatics (INEGI)

114.	The division of household labour among dual-earner parents in Norway - The effect of employment schedules  •  Silje Vatne Pettersen, Statistics Norway

115.	Portrait of ageing of population in Georgia  •  Nato Pitskhelauri, Tbilisi State University; Nino Chikhladze, Tbilisi State University; Tamar Shinjiashvili, Tbilisi State University

116.	Unemployment and matrimony in the territorial aspect in Poland, 1998-2004  •  Malgorzata Podogrodzka, Warsaw School of Economics

117.	“Reproduction of the species is not compatible with industrial society" (Kingsley Davis, 1937): New Zealand(NZ), a case-study english-speaking country (ESCS)  •  Ian Pool, University of Waikato; Janet Sceats, Portal Consulting and Associates Ltd.; A Dharmalingam, Monash University

118.	Sequencing norms in transition to motherhood in two generations of Slovak women  •  Michaela Potancokova, Charles University, Prague

119.	Advance or delay of the onset of disability among Spanish elderly? 1994-2004  •  Maria Dolores Puga, CSIC, Spain; Antonio Abellán

120.	Mortality orecasting by causes of death in the framework of multistate population projection  •  László G. Radnóti, Hungarian Central Statistical Office

121.	Tourism and sexual behavior: experiences of youths in Goa, India  •  Usha Ram, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

122.	Migration and fishing in West Africa  •  Sara Randall, University College London

123.	Child morbidity and breastfeeding status in India  •  Rajiv Ranjan, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Balram Paswan, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

124.	Reproductive tract infections among recently pregnant women in Rural India. An Evidence from Reproductive and Child Health survey  •  Rajiv Ranjan, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Laishram Ladusingh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

125.	The Influences of economic conditions on fertility intentions of Russian men  •  Dorothea Rieck, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

126.	Analysis of waves of immigration to Israel, 1989-2001  •  Ilan Riss, Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics

127.	Aging, longevity and lonely households in the south of Europe: the Spanish case  •  Elena Robles, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; Rosa Gómez-Redondo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

128.	Estimation of the life expectancy of persons with down’s syndrome through a longitudinal survival model  •  Aldo Rosano, Italian Institute of Social Medicine

129.	Social contagion of the "delay syndrome" in Italy  •  Alessandro Rosina, Università Cattolica, Milan; Paola Di Giulio, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

130.	Contraceptive frailty: an analysis of prospective contraceptive histories, France, 2000-2004  •  Clementine Rossier, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Jean-Marie Le Goff, Université de Lausanne

131.	Polish households savings for future life on pension  •  Malgorzata Roszkiewicz, Warsaw School of Economics; Jolanta Perek-Bialas, Jagiellonian University

132.	Are Czech children a matter of concern?  •  Jitka Rychtarikova, Charles University, Prague; Jaroslav Kraus, Charles University, Prague

133.	Trends and differentials in life expectancies in India: an analysis based on NFHS data  •  Sulaja S, Futures Group, India; Jayachandran V, Futures Group, India

134.	Atlas of reproductive and child health (RCH) in India  •  Mocherla S.R. Murthy, Sri Venkateswara University; Putcha Venkata, Kings College, London

135.	Participation of males in decision making as an index of their perceived involvement in reproductive and child health in Tamil Nadu, India  •  Ravi Sankar, Annamalai University

136.	Reaching the unreached: older women and the RCH programme in India, the challenges ahead  •  Syamala T. Sankaranarayanan, Institute for Social and Economic Change

137.	Population pressure on development and environment in India  •  Dayanand G Satihal, Indian Institute of Health Management (IIHMR); LD Vaikunthe, Indian Institute of Health Management (IIHMR)

138.	A survey on social effective factors on women's job security: a case study of private hospitals of Shiraz City (Iran)  •  Arezou Sayadi, Shiraz University, Iran; saaid Zahed.Zahedani, Shiraz University, Iran; Jalil Iranmahboob, Centre for Population Studies & Research, Iran

139.	Population projections in Belgium and in France since the 1930s. Confrontation to reality and identification of errors  •  Bruno D. Schoumaker, Université Catholique de Louvain; Amel Bahri, Université Catholique de Louvain; François Peltier, Université catholique de Louvain

140.	The changing meaning of cohabitation: evidence from Bologna, Italy  •  Christin Schroeder, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

141.	Using routine databases of statutory sickness funds for population wide analysis of depressive morbidity in Germany  •  Friedrich W. Schwartz, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover; Thomas G Grobe, ISEG; Anke Brahmesfeld, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

142.	Fertility: the dynamic of birth interval in Bangladesh  •  Abdul Hannan Shaikh

143.	Value of children, fertility behavious and contraception use in an Agricultural society in Uttar Pradesh, India  •  Ravendra K. Sharma, Indian Council of Medical Research

144.	Spread of western marital behavior in Georgia  •  Tamar Shinjiashvili, Tbilisi State University; Nino Chikhladze, Tbilisi State University; Ketevan Asatashvili, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg

145.	Italian people abroad: problems and methods  •  Angela Silvestrini, Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT); Giovanni Cariani, Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT); Pier Paolo Pace, Instituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

146.	Village size and Development in India  •  Abhishek Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Tarun K. Roy, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Sandip Chakraborty, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

147.	Couples reproductive goals in two culturally contrasting states of North Eastern India  •  Abhishek Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Faujdar Ram, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

149.	Fetters in advancement of education and employment: a case study of SC/ST population in India  •  Vini Sivanandan, Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, India; Sajikumar S, University of Kerala, India

150.	The demography of lone parenthood in the UK  •  Alexandra J Skew, University of Southampton

151.	Depopulation, disappearance and resurgence: the population history of the Aboriginal people of Victoria  •  Len Smith, Australian National University; Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne; Ian Anderson, University of Melbourne

152.	Reproductive health problems among urban women :a study of four metro cities in India  •  Ruchi Sogarwal, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

153.	The procreative behaviours of the generations born in 1942 - 1966 in Poland in the context of their plans and aspirations  •  Ewa Soja, Cracow University of Economics

154.	Be clear before gettitng involved in sex: the impact of sex before marriage amongst young people in Cambodia  •  Tong Soprach, University of Cambodia

155.	Internet and multimedia demography: what's new?  •  Eugeny Soroko, Russian Academy of Sciences

156.	The situation of the aged people in Benin  •  Fortuné Sossa, National Institute of the Statistical and the Economic Analysis, Bénin

157.	Regional cause-of-death mortality in Spain in 1960 and 1970: A multivariate analysis and tentative explanations  •  Jeroen JA Spijker, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Amand Blanes

158.	People mobility and its model  •  Oleg V Staroverov, CEMI RAS, Russia

159.	Human capital on the ageing labour market - methods of measurement on example of Poland  •  Marcin Stonawski, Cracow University of Economics

160.	Why on average is not enough? - The microsimulation projection of the pension distribution in Poland  •  Pawel Strzelecki, Warsaw School of Economics

161.	At the margins of the welfare state: living arrangements and housing conditions of immigrants in Spain  •  Elisa Suárez, Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Laura Lorenzo, Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Teresa Castro Martin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

162.	Old age with and without children: economic implications in Italy  •  Maria-Letizia Tanturri, University of Pavia; Gustavo De Santis, Università di Messina; Chiara Seghieri, University of Florence

163.	An analysis of the most recent national workshops on Italian population studies accordingtTo a network perspective  •  Laura Terzera, Università Milano, Bicocca; Giulia Rivellini, Università Cattolica, Milan

164.	Family formation in France: between preferences and social constraints  •  Maria Rita Testa, Vienna Institute of Demography; Laurent Toulemon, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

165.	Psychosocial work conditions as a predictors of quality of life at the beginning of older age  •  Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk; Piotr Brzyski

166.	Socio-demographic analysis of early age mortality in the southeastern part of Turkey  •  Kazım Tuğ, Hacettepe University

167.	Peculiarities of migration processes in post-Soviet Georgia  •  Mirian Tukhashvili, Tbilisi State University; Tamaz Zubiashvili, Tbilisi State University

168.	Intergenerational transmission of fertility, review of up to date research and some new evidence from Bejsce parish register reconstitution study, 18th – 20th centuries, Poland  •  Krzysztof Tymicki, Warsaw School of Economics

170.	Women's view on women's employment: the case of Afghan migrants in Mashad/Iran  •  Sajede Vaezzade, Jahad-e Daneshgahi

171.	Family name and family structure : which perceptions ?  •  Marie-France Valetas, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

172.	Trends in fertility and population ageing in multiethnic Transylvania (Romania)  •  Valér Veres, Babes-Bolyai University

173.	Physical accessibility to government health facilities and health outcomes: a study of selected states based on NFHS-2, 1998-99  •  Kanwaljeet Virdi, Jawaharlal Nehru University

174.	The impact of internal migration on italian fertility  •  Michael J. White, Brown University; Anna Paterno, Università di Bari; Giuseppe Gabrielli, Università di Bari

175.	Children’s experiences of the work/life balance  •  Helena L Wilson, University of Liverpool

177.	Fertility transition and the progression to third birth in Turkey  •  Sutay Yavuz, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

178.	Female sterilization in Turkey  •  Elif Yiğit, Hacettepe University

179.	Male involvement in contraceptive use in Turkey  •  Elif Yiğit, Hacettepe University

180.	Benefits of women's education within marriage: evidence from South Africa  •  Haochi Zheng, University of Minnesota

181.	The phenomenon of patterns: gender gaps in mortality  •  Nadine Zielonke, Vienna Institute of Demography; Marc Luy, University of Rostock

182.	Is the allocation of kidney-transplants among MEDICARE patients in the US maximizing the total gain in health expectancy among all potential recipients ?  •  Monique Zimmermann-Stenzel, University of Marburg; Ulrich Mueller, University of Marburg

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