Gender Policy and HIV in China
Catalyzing Policy Change
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Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Transgender and Cisgender Populations in the U.S
In this chapter we undertake a series of empirical analyses of the prevalence and the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the transgender and cisgender populations in the United States. We employ ...
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The Overseas Chinese Communities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
In this chapter we present historical overviews and analyses of current data on the overseas Chinese populations in the three Southeast Asian countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and in the th...
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26 Ecological Demography
Ecology may be defined as the “study of the interrelationships of organisms with their environment and each other.” The term human ecology was first used in 1924 by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess in their Introdu...
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Son Preference of Immigrants to the United States: Data from U.S. Birth Certificates, 2004–2013
Son preference has existed for centuries in many cultures and societies. In some Asian countries, including China and India, the sex ratio at birth (SRB, number of male infants divided by number of female infa...
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The Conceptualization and Measurement of the Homosexual, Heterosexual, and Bisexual Populations in the United States
In this chapter we conceptualize and measure sexuality and sexual orientation. We discuss the two main approaches used by social scientists to conceptualize sexual orientation, namely, essentialism and social ...
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Are China’s Minority Nationalities Still on the Margins?
In 2010, the population of China totalled 1.33 billion people, of which an overwhelming majority (91.6 % of the total) were members of the Han nationality. The remaining 112 million (almost 8.4 %) were members...
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Demographic Structure and Process in Rural China
This chapter covers the major issues of rural demography in the People’s Republic of China. We first provide some perspective for our discussions by presenting an overview of China, its history and recent emer...
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Introduction
China’s concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one in several regions of the country. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexua...
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China’s Unbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth: How Many Surplus Boys Have Been Born in China Since the 1980s?
In recent decades China has experienced an extremely rapid fertility reduction from more than six children per woman in the early 1960s to just over 1.6 children per woman in 2005 (Fig. 3.1). This fertility tr...
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Patterns of Sexually Transmitted Infections in China
The analysis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is a topic of major interest in demography, sociology and other disciplines. Indeed the STI phenomenon itself has resulted in recent years in the creation...
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Population Aging in the Koreas
Auguste Comte, the French mathematician, philosopher and the founder of sociology, is believed to be the first person to write that, “Demography is destiny”. Although Comte focused mainly on the effects on the...
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The U.S. census and congressional apportionment
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Socioeconomic development, family planning, and fertility in China
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Manipulating population counts
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A note on stability in the U.S. Metropolitan system: 1950–1970
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Indigenous labor supply, sustenance organization, and population redistribution in nonmetropolitan america: An extension of the ecological theory of migration
The ecological theory of migration asserts that change in sustenance organization, to the extent that it produces changes in the opportunities for living, necessitates a change in population size. Migration ma...
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Socioeconomic status, value orientations, and fertility behavior in India
This paper examines the role assumed by value orientations in the explanation of fertility behavior. Specifically the concern is with the extent to which value orientations intervene between, or mediate, the r...
