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from all the far corners of the global want state and animate a time
as primo they can, lacking war and reflection. This was the just what the doctor ordered of
the Statue of Liberty and several of our ancestors worked tricky and yearlong
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While we are a state of masses nationalities, we are not the world's Creator
or the police force pay for both civilization that is out location. If aid is needful or
assistance for humane reasons, afterwards yes, since we are all human
beings, we have a demand to abet others - but not to position territorial army all completed the
world, to snoop and produce governments to be overthrown and start off
conditions for riots and upheavals.
We are the youngest state say and as a result we do not have
all the answers to ameliorate all the earth's wounds. In addition, we do not have the
God-given justified to oblige our ideals, ways, and conclusion systems on everyone
else. We can serve but not modify. We can assist but not repeat. Many of the
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Our legal document in this orb we survive in is to minister to and tender our friendship - not
decide what is rightly or unsuitable for each one other. Each land has their
needs, their ways, and they do have their self-importance of descent. Who are we,
truly, to make up one's mind all the issues facing every nation, swing our soldiers and personnel
in hundreds of new countries, determining who should or should not win
elections, and if not active our way, to inflame and overthrow? No one informed
the world that God died and the cosmos is not superficial for a refill.
We should laurels the ways of others, but be nearby if they condition food, medical
equipment, or a few administrative division has distinct that their neighbor should be wiped out
and the associates (the agreed both day man or adult female) would be in backache. We
do not own or should we envy all the supplies of the planetary. We do not have the
expertise, even still our senate truly believes they do, to money
entire cultures into our photo. They are not "us" and we need to have the service
to afford them the rightly to singing as they choose, lacking our foreign policy and without
giving capital and indoctrination to the cross we acknowledge is correct. The relations of all of
the countries we meddle next to are not man specified the unsystematic to run their
own lives, their land, or settle on what they ache. Most assuredly, our
country should never trespass its bounds and make poor the citizens of the planetary
from their choices and their decisions.
Just representation other rural area future present (and no, they are not on all thoroughfare
corner and at every contact sport game, as the media would have you accept),
distributing leaflets from the air nearly overthrowing our government, around
the Great Lakes and the oceans with ships and warplanes (just bailiwick
training) and next deciding to come in our province even on the other hand we never stepped linear unit on
their terrain or threw one weaponry at them. Not simply did we come in Iraq, but we do
not mean to head off. We were not at hand to win black maria - we sought oil and we
wanted to take over the Middle East.
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Millions are mortal put into an embassy to private residence Americans in Iraq for God forever,
and now we poverty missile bases where we quality the entail - even although it puts
other nations on wary and causes rifts and worries. We are the rulers of the
universe and you either are near us or against us. Hopefully, Rome, Germany,
and another large cultures can develop and inform the citizens what can start when
world instruction is the mandate and our way or no way is the slogan. The private residence of
cards will time of year and consequently the remaining nations will manifestation distant because they stood by
us because of fear, not good relations. We scared and vulnerable bombing so
they called themselves allies, but in the end, fearfulness does not cultivate friendships.
Our roads is crumbling, our families are in rags to shreds, tuition is a by-
product and in attendance is more force present then of all time earlier. Guns are human being carried
as in the Old West, inhabitants sprout all remaining basically because they are there, and evildoing
has get uglier and bloodier than ever in our past. More men and women are
crippled from the war and they do not get the backing or medical fame they
deserve. Yet backdown is not an opportunity because of airs voiced as washout. In reality,
we don't poorness to suffer so our puppylike impart their liquid body substance and visual aspect the earth with
their daring.
TV shows our vulnerable that cheating and fictitious are quantity of the game, and the
commercials exploit the thirst to buy more even nonetheless you don't status it. Women
are shown in gear that has no shame, but afterwards each one wonders why brassica napus
and other than sexual crimes are at an incomparable giant. Men have nowhere to be found high regard for women
as women and use their mettle to pour scorn on and harm. Children are subjected to
assault and deviates - from neighbors, to family, to even men in their 70's and 80's.
Even the departed are not at peace as disorderly teens attack and mutiliate robert graves
and crypts.
There are rallies and demonstrations by "illegal aliens" and no bring up is ready-made of
the unendorsed whereabouts they have understood. They necessity rights here in our region not in
theirs because they cognise their regime has washed their custody of helping their
own population because the U.S. will help yourself to perfectionism of it. We instruct their children, impart
them learned profession care, and jobs. This allows companies not to have to pay a flesh and blood salary
to its own citizens because tuppeny toil is profuse and cries of "No American desires
the job" brings TV cameras and daily interviews. The region that should be
handling these technical hitches and devising inroads for their own population do not use their
resources because the U.S. has genuinely understood completed. We feed, clothe, educate, and
give status to their general public spell lots Americans do minus.
Gentleness and behaviour
are few and far between, and society will snuff to get that second dollar on the table. If
another has to starve, miss everything because of learned profession emergencies, and
children as cured as families are homeless, the bottom dash is that the oil billionaries
are raking it in by unheard of income. "Me first" is on everyone's oral cavity and offspring
are state told "to kick ass." Childhood sports are howling matches for parents
and masses holiday resort to punches and even propulsion of the separate haunch. Our family
do not understand in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny but bow downbound to bad
monsters representing avengers and annihilation.Shooting and pandemonium are the
rites of massage, not construction castles in the sand and imaginativeness during lukewarm
summer years. Childhood is losing out time minuscule adults are short of and
pulled as parents run antagonistic each else. A young person the massiveness of a small has
already seen more hostility past tons adults did in their rapidly increasing time of life.
Holidays get in the way of jobs and fair events, and brood are no longer latch-
key but are simply alone - in their homes, in their vicinity and even in their
hearts. People are sued if they reprimand a tike who may have run into the street, or
broke a skylight - parents interact beside lawyers and jewels is the answer.
Bullies bring in their parents proud, patch the older are neglected
and relegated to tending homes and facilties. School shootings are no longer a
shock. They have become items of communication.
Our countryside wishes our land to tending nearly its people, to pass income on those
who obligation it inside our own borders. The world will crumple and wreck us as symptomless
as the top soil if we don't do our factor for the state of affairs. Animals are seemly
extinct, municipality position has no limits, and noise, air, and wet impurity is uncontrolled.
Drug companies match pills lords, dispensing pills to get up you, put you to sleep,
let you get through your day, prefer when you impoverishment to die, find out how your
children will look, and so off. There is a lozenge for definitely everything
but the determining factor is that nearby is enormously little research and maximum of it is unfair or hidden,
and the products are found to result in more than medical technical hitches and disasters.
Our silage is spoiled beside additives and chemicals and tubbiness is prevalent patch
video games replace exertion and exterior play. We say in attendance is no instrumentality race,
yet the budget allows for recovered nuclear arms and facilities. There is no
dictatorship, yet Congress and the Senate do the dictation when the Ruler
nods his person in charge or pats them on their wallets. We should be location fences of
friendship or else of concealed suffering camps in separate lands and more prisons.
We dismiss the Geneva Convention and Kyoto but we will do anything for more
oil and matter. We extravaganza the lifeless and mutilated bodies of the opposite side, but are
adament that our unresponsive not be ashamed. They have been in the worse way -
a war that should ne'er had happened, and one that was brought more or less by lies
and falsehoods fully clad up in suits and report conferences.
The Catholic Church is going in receivership and closing parishes because of sex crimes
and lies, debauchery and hunger encompass our elected representatives and well-mannered servants. Soldiers
are placed in harm's way and shoot to exterminate no event the motivation because of deformation
and fear, but at hand is no forthcoming household or an end to the war. Congress, the Senate
and your electoral officials are committed to continue the desires of their people, yet they
do as they are told and rear off of the really critical issues because of "politics"
It fair doesn't look accurate to object to bad decisions and cart a stand - as an alternative
go where on earth the votes are and profligate in the burial patch you can. The celebration term
is all that matters because the right is the purpose - not the population and sincere
What has happened to a construct of a pastoral wherever race were active to be happy,
healthy, and lead lives that allowed each one a helping of the pie? It's out in attendance some-
where, probably in the off the hook of one of the oil or tablets corporations so that they can
just digit out a way to do distant with it - but they can't. It is in our long whist and souls,
and patch we may be in a linctus stupor or fed lies three times a day and now our minds
are brumous and our decisions faulty, we will preponderate. We are Americans and we won
our rights - we are all in this equally - we just forgot how to do it . The population of the
other lands that occupy loam have the self rights - to choose, decide, and before a live audience
the way they impoverishment to - without our interference, judgment, and trauma. We pay
for the senate to battle the war on crime, drugs, and the terrorists - yet, it is
in the very walls of the hollow halls of the White House.
What is the reply - we let have your home so we can live in. We minister to where on earth we can but depart
the big decisions to the nations to postulate with, and to transportation out. We battle with the sole purpose
when energy and member of those are at percentage - such as AIDS, and kill - but
we hang about out of elections. We are not the brightest stars in the heavens, because
there are others who stock the outer space. When we antiseptic up our own wager on yards,
and brand name the repairs to ourselves and our parkland - then and lone later are we
ready to be echt guardians of the soil. When we can unpack the mortification
and strain caused by golf stroke downfield the American Indians, those who support
against issues, and those who are in send to prison even although innocent, next we are
ready and all in your prime. Until afterwards our escalating striving should payoff up our case
and opportunity. We will last but we essential let others live on. We will win but we
must let others run the competition and evaluation as well. We are a intense commonwealth among
many - we are as good as to all quality beings, we are not gods and goddesses,
and later and just consequently will we be really relieve. We essential exterior at our past and cram.
We must watch at the international earlier period and see the deterrent signs that led to flop.
Each man, woman, and tike in this lands is beloved and should be at the forepart
of all we do - yet egoes, and agendas as symptomless as momentum gluttony have eaten up
decency and political theory. Look enclosed and the answers are all near - filch the
time to truly embark on your opinion and really see what is on.
It is not too slow - but the watch is ticking. We are fashioning enemies instead
of bonding friendships. We are using war and arms alternatively of dexterity
and appendage shakes. We are the solitary ones to variation course of study - we have through it
before and we can do it once more - for those previously us and peculiarly for those
here and now.
©Arleen M. Kaptur
June, 2007


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Japanese society has developed rapidly since the end of World War Two, and the standard of living of the Japanese people has steadily increased. However, many Japanese feel that the degree of affluence they enjoy lags behind their country's economic power. In this chapter we shall investigate what has and what has not been achieved in 50 post-war years with respect to the lifestyles of the Japanese people.
(The Aging Population)
The Japanese population is rapidly aging as a result of decling birth and death rates. Comparing Japan's population pyramid at two points in time, namely 1950 and 1990, we see that the 1950 pyramid was conical with declining populations in older age groups, whilst the 1990 pyramid is more "bulb-shaped" with lower populations in young age groups and larger populations in the middle age groups.
(See Figure I-1-1.)
(The Changing Generational Structure)
Accordingly, the generational structure of Japanese society has also changed in the 50 years since the end of World War Two. The proportion of the Japanese population born after the war rose from just over half (50.6%) in 1975 to 66.5% in 1994. Furthermore, the percentage of "baby boomers" in the population, namely those born after 1971 when high speed growth had rendered Japan an affluent society, reached 29.9% in 1994, or almost one third of the population. An affluent generation increasingly constitutes the mainstream of Japanese society.
(Rising Income Levels)
Japanese society has steadily emerged from its post-war ruins to become one of the world's leading economic powers. In dollar terms, average Japanese per capita income overtook that of Britain in 1972, and, as a result of the yen's rapid appreciation, that of the United States in 1987, to achieve the highest level of major advanced countries. (See Figure I-1-7.)
Real income per capita also grew rapidly reaching roughly eight times pre-war levels (1934-6 average) by 1993. Also, Japan achieved average annual GDP growth of 3.6% in the post- First Oil Crisis period (1974-93) exceeding that of any other major economy.
(The Rise in Japan's Global Economic Standing)
Japan's share of aggregate global GDP rose from 4.1 % in 1960 to 18.3% in 1993. (See Figure I-1-15.) Also, although Japan's post-war reconstruction was made possible by official aid from the United States, the World Bank and other sources, Japan had itself become a donor of overseas aid by the mid-1950s. Today, as one of the world's largest economies, Japan is the world's leading donor of official aid.
(See Figure I-1-18.)
he shift away from primary industries towards tertiary industries is evident in both Japan's industrial and employment structure, and has resulted in an overall shift towards a service-oriented economy. Also, a major change in Japan's social environment has been the inexorable rise of the white-collar worker or "salaryman". Finally, changes in the employment structure have supported the participation of women in the labor market.
The shift in Japan's industrial structure towards manufacturing and services has created many jobs in urban areas, resulting in a population flow from agricultural areas to cities. If one excludes the wartime evacuation period, the proportion of the Japanese population residing in urban areas has been increasing since 1920, resulting in the urbanization of Japanese society. However, because of the large-scale merging of cities towns and villages between 1953 and 1960, many cities have come to embrace agricultural areas, making urbanization figures based on the proportion of the population living in cities an unreliable measure of this trend. If we consider instead statistics for densely inhabited districts (DIDs), we see that the proportion of the population living in such districts increased sharply after 1947, and thus the immediate post-war years can be taken as the start of urbanization in Japan. The process of urbanization led to an increase in smaller households such as nuclear families, and the average size of a family unit has been declining since 1955.
Rising income levels in Japan have made higher education more popular in Japan. The proportion of students entering high school has grown dramatically in the post-war era, exceeding 90% in 1974, and reaching 95.7% in 1994. The proportion of students proceeding to university or junior college has likewise swollen. The number of female students entering university or junior college first overtook the figure for male students in 1989, with the proportions in 1994 being 40.9% for males and 45.9% for females. Also, the number of students proceeding to graduate education began to increase from the early 1980s. The trend towards higher education has led to greater outlays on educational expenses. A breakdown of household expenditure on education shows that the proportion spent on supplementary education, including "Juku" schools, rose from 5.1% in 1960 to 25.4% in 1994.
(Rising Consumption Levels)
Rising income levels have led to increased consumption in Japan, with the result that the Engel's Coefficient for Japan fell from 63% in 1947 to 24% in 1994. At the same time, household expenditure on "Transportion and Communication" rose substantially, as did that on either items falling under "Other Consumption Expenditure", such as "Reading and Education" and "Entertainment". Expenditure household electrical goods also increased dramatically over this period, while the diffusion ratio of airconditioners and automobiles has also risen steadily.
(Declining Regional Disparities)
Inter-regional disparities have shrunk steadily over the post-war period. Per capita income disparities between prefectures in Japan, for example, began to decline after 1961. Also, plotting average per capita prefectural income in 1955 on the horizontal axis against per capita income growth between 1955 and 1992 on the vertical axis shows that the poorer the prefecture in 1955, the greater has been its income growth over the period. (See Figure I-1-32.)
(Changes in the Housing Environment)
Wartime destruction of housing in Japan resulted in an extreme dearth of housing units in the immediate aftermath of the war, but active housing construction thereafter led to a steady rise in the total number of housing units. In 1968, when the total number of housing units first exceeded the total number of households, Japan entered an era of one housing unit per household.
An analysis of ownership status shows that the number of owner occupiers has declined while the number of rental occupiers has increased. Regarding the type of housing, the proportion of detached and semi-detached/terraced housing units has fallen, while that of apartment-style housing units has risen. Also, the average living space per person, which showed no improvement in the pre-war period, grew significantly in the post-war period, and by 1993 had reached 2.2 times the 1934-6 average in the Tokyo area and 2.7 times for Japan as a whole. (See Figure I-1-36.) As a result of both the increase in per capita living space and declining household size, the number of persons per room fell from 1.16 in 1963 to 0.62 in 1993, demonstrating the growing desire for individual privacy. The improvement in housing facilities is witnessed by the growing proportion of housing units having their own bathrooms, and by the proportion with separate toilets and kitchens.
The evidence above shows that while the quality and size of housing units has steadily improved, the actual acquisition of a housing unit has emerged as a problem. Housing prices for Tokyo and Japan as a whole continue to rise, and the gap between average annual household income and housing prices remains stubbornly large.
Total annual working hours in Japan's manufacturing industry exhibit a clear declining trend, according to both the Management and Coordination Agency's "Manpower Survey" of individuals and the Ministry of Labor's "Monthly Labor Survey" of corporations. (See Figure I-1-40.) The Ministry of Labor's Survey finds that total annual individual working hours fell below 2000 for the first time in 1993, reaching 1,957 for the manufacturing industry (or 1,904 for all industries surveyed) in 1994.
The main cause of the decline in total working hours lies not so much in less overtime hours, which is a function of prevailing economic conditions, as in the long term decline in the actual number of working days. In particular, the widespread adoption of a five-day working week between the first half of the 1970s and that late 1980s / early 1990s had a significant impact. However, although there is a clear downward trend in total annual working hours, a problem persists with respect to paid holidays, namely that while individuals' paid holiday entitlement has increased slightly, the number of days actually taken has remained almost flat.
This section will consider the current state of Japanese society through an international comparison and through a survey of individual attitudes in Japan, and thereby identify important issues to be addressed toward the achievment of a more affluent Japanese society.
(The Price Differential Between Japan and Other Countries)
The price differential between Japan and other countries is a major reason why Japanese people do not feel they enjoy a degree of affluence in keeping with their country's economic power. Historically estimating this price differential shows that the problem emerged in the second half of the 1980s. (See Figue I-1-42.) Until the1960s, Japanese price levels were half those of the United States, but at the current time they are approximately 1.5 times higher. Also, if we compare American and Japanese price levels for 1994 by expenditure category in dollar terms, we find that Japanese prices are far higher in all categories, except medical and insurance expenditure, where Japanese government support works to reduce price levels. In particular, price levels of food, drink, housing construction, engineering works and non-electrical products are particuarly high in Japan.
Japanese per capita incomes in dollar terms are the highest of all major countries. However, the result is quite different if one considers per capita consumption expenditure adjusted for purchasing power parity of consumer goods and services, which factors in this international price differential. In these terms, Japan lay below the United States, Germany and other countries in 1994. Whilst the exchange rate, in the long run, is determined by the productivity of traded goods, domestic consumption levels depend upon the productivity of consumer goods and services.
(Social Infrastructure Provision)
The state of social infrastructure provision in Japan has steadily improved over the post-war period, as demonstrated by the upward trend in four representative indicators of social infrastructure provision, namely the percentage of sewered population, the diffusion ratio of flush toilets, the proportion of the population with running water, and the percentage of paved roads. (See Figure I-1-45.) However, even if one considers Japan's particular historical and geographical circumstances, the level is still not satisfactory.
Running water is now almost universally provided, with 95.3% of the population enjoying this service in 1993. In contrast, only 71.9% of Japan's roads were paved by the same year. Also, whilst the percentage of sewered population is increasing, the figure only crossed the 50% threshold in 1994. The diffusion ratio of flush toilets stood at 75.6% in 1993.
A simple international comparison of social infrastructure provision is difficult since definitions vary from country to country, but Japan's achievments in the diffusion of sewerage services and flush toilets certainly falls short of other major countries. Also, the amount of open per space per capita in the Tokyo area is the lowest amongst major countries, although the situation is somewhat ameliorated by including land attached to detached houses, as well as temples and shrines.
Since the first half of the 1970s, Japan's public investment as a percentage of gross domestic product has been above the major country average. However, in addition to extremely high land prices (to be discussed below), public investment confronts the same natural obstacles of topography, ground quality and earthquakes, as other industries. This is one reason why, despite high public investment, the provision of social infrastructure in Japan lags behind other countries. Finally, the failure to upgrade such elements of the social infrastructure as roads and ports also impacts price differentials between Japan and other countries by raising transportation and other related costs.
Although the Japanese people enjoy some of the world's highest income levels, Japan still lags in such areas as housing and social infrastructure provision. How then has this affected people's attitudes?
On this issue, the "Public Opinion Survey on the National Lifestyle" conducted yearly by the Prime Minister's Office asks the question, "How do you feel your lifestyle is perceived by those around you?" In 1967, 89.2% of respondents answered "average" and the percentage has remained almost unchanged to date. The Survey also asks, "Do you feel your lifestyle has improved from the same time last year?" For the sake of simplicity let us consider the results of this question by subtracting, for each year, the percentage of respondents answering, "It has deteriorated," from the percentage answering, "It has improved." This indicator turned negative in 1974, the year of the First Oil Crisis, and has remained negative ever since. (See Figure I-1-51.)
For our purposes, the most pertinent question in the survey is probably that enquiring into the degree of satisfaction people feel towards their lifestyles. Following the approach above, we subtract the percentage answering "unsatisfied" from the percentage answering "satisfied" to derive a simple indicator of lifestyle satisfaction. Whilst this indicator declined sharply around the First Oil Crisis, it returned thereafter to an upward trend. (See Figure I-1-52.) Even without the soaring income levels of the high growth period, individuals have registered no noticeable dissatisfaction with their lifestyles.
The Management and Coordination Agency's "World Youth Survey" considers the lifestyle satisfaction felt by Japan's younger generation in particular and offers an international comparison. (See Figure I-1-53.) The overall degree of lifestyle satisfaction registered by Japan's youth is not particularly high. The degree of satisfaction regarding workplace lifestyles is particularly low, with that registered towards family lifestyles also being relatively low. Meanwhile, the degree of satisfaction with the general lifestyle of Japanese society was not so low in comparison to other countries.
Japan's economic achievments in the post-war era have been dazzling. Japan's per capita income, expressed in dollars, is higher than that of the United States. However, if one considers people's attitudes to their lifestyle, the relative sense of improvement is weak, with general dissatisfaction regarding economic performance having grown ever since the advent of the stable growth period which followed the First Oil Crisis. Whilst Japanese remain relatively dissatisfied with their lifestyles in international comparison, the trend is now improving. All in all, most Japanese do not feel an affluence or degree of satisfaction with their lifestyles in keeping with their country's economic growth record.
The gap between per capita income levels in dollar terms and the real purchasing power over goods and services which determines lifestyle quality is a problem of the price differential between Japan and other countries. Regarding this problem, the relationship between increased efficiency and lifestyle improvement was stressed many years ago in the 1967 White Paper on the Japanese Economy. This year's White Paper on the Japanese Economy meanwhile focusses on the need to promote deregulation, the modernization of traditional business practices, and other such measures, in order to correct or reduce this price differential. With regard to improvement of the social infrastructure, it also stresses the need to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
In contrast, this FY1994 White Paper on the National Lifestyle focusses not on these economic aspects, but on the attitudes of the Japanese people which economic measures cannot grasp, and which exhibit a less positive trend than the obective rise in the Japanese standard of living. It will compare objective improvements with individual attitudes in three areas, namely the workplace, the family and Japanese society in general.
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2 Statistical Background
|2.1 DLB Data
In order to fix ideas, consider the hypothetical sample in Table 1. Suppose that a survey is taken at time t, and that each of six women reports her age (a), and the number of months since her last live birth. These data appear on the left-hand side of the table. In many data sets (including the public use samples of the Brazilian census that we use later in the paper), DLB data are available only in integer-truncated form; this version appears in the table in the "Years" column. From this point forward we will treat the number of years, rather than the number of months, as if it were the DLB data observed by the researcher.
Fertility information from too far in the past may be unrepresentative of current patterns. It is therefore desirable to restrict the analysis to the relatively recent past. The researcher can do this by considering only woman-years lived within T years of the survey, where T is a value selected by the researcher. The value of T should be chosen after weighing the benefits of increased sample sizes against the costs of possible biases (see [8]). In Table 1 we use T=5.
The column labeled (u) displays the number of complete years since last birth, truncated at the upper limit of T=5. This variable appears in many subsequent calculations. By construction u Î {0,1,...,T}, and the researcher observes MIN(T,u+1) woman-years from each individual sampled.
The set of columns under the heading "Five-Year History" illustrates the available fertility histories from this sample. Each of the five right-hand columns corresponds to a one-year period. Cells for which histories are known contain the woman's age at the end of the year; other cells are blank. Woman-years that include births are emphasized with bold face and brackets. The column labeled (d) contains a dummy indicator, equal to one if the woman had a birth within the five-year period, and equal to zero otherwise.
All women in the sample contribute one person-year of exposure to the rightmost column, corresponding to the period (t-1,t]. Each woman's age at the end of this period is simply a, her age on the survey date. All women with uł1 also contribute information about fertility in the period (t-2,t-1], all women with uł2 contribute information about (t-3,t-2], and so forth.
Standard methods for deriving age-specific fertility rates from a sample like that in Table 1 use only the rightmost column. For each age group, the researcher sums the births in the past year only, and divides by the number of women in that age group on the survey date. For Table 1 these calculations are trivial. Because there is only one birth recorded in the year before the survey (to woman #6) all estimated fertility rates would be zero, except f30-34=0.50. This is an unrealistic age schedule for fertility, of course, the main cause of which is the very small sample size.
As Table 1 makes clear, however, there is considerably more fertility information embedded in the (a,u,d) data than the last year alone reveals. The rightmost column corresponding to the year before the sample contains 6 woman-years and 1 birth. In contrast, the available information from the same women for the last T=5 years contains 20 woman-years and 4 births.
2.2 Estimating a Simple Fertility Schedule with DLB Data
The previous paper [8] showed that using the expanded sample of woman-years from a DLB data set can substantially reduce the sampling variance of estimators for small samples. Furthermore, if the researcher restricts the sampling period to five or fewer years before the survey (as in Table 1 above), potential biases caused by unobserved heterogeneity and time trends in fertility rates appear to be small.
For one simple fertility schedule - a piecewise-constant function with no restrictions on the pattern of fertility across different age groups - estimation with DLB data is extremely simple. Specifically, for the fertility schedule
the previous paper [8] demonstrated that maximum likelihood estimates for parameters l1...lG from DLB data are
where Bg and Yg are the counts of births and woman-years, respectively, for age group g. As an example, in the five-year DLB information in Table 1, B25-29=2 births (woman #1 and #2 each had a birth in this age group) and Y25-29=5 (1 year each from women #1 and #5, and 3 years from woman #2). The estimated l25-29 is 0.40, compared to the estimate of zero from the last-year only data.
The estimators in {3} are simple and familiar. However, they are somewhat counterintuitive, because much of the measured exposure (Y) occurs after, rather than before, the measured events (B). Despite this inversion of the usual order of time, the maximum likelihood estimators are still familiar-looking event/exposure ratios. Allison [1] showed that similar counterintuitive results hold for backward recurrence times (times since last event) in many stochastic models.
2.3 Summary Indices for Piecewise-Constant Models
One very important aspect of {3} is that maximum likelihood estimation requires only a handful of summary indices (B1...BG,Y1...YG), rather than the full set of individual-level DLB data. This section demonstrates that this is a property of any fertility model in which the age schedule is piecewise-constant across age groups, a fact that simplifies the estimation of many parametric models, including Coale-Trussell.
For any model with piecewise-constant rates, fertility at age a may be written as:
where lg is the model's fertility level for age group g, and Ig(a) is an indicator function equal to 1 if age a belongs to group g, and equal to zero otherwise. The age-group rates l1...lG may be unrestricted, as in {2}, or they may be required to conform to some parameterized schedule lg=lg(q). The important point for the exposition is that fertility levels are identical at all ages within each group.
From [8], the log likelihood for an individual observation (ai,ui,di) is
The first term in this equation corresponds to the probability of a birth at age ai-ui (if di=1 and a birth was reported), and the second term corresponds to the probability of surviving without a birth over the age interval (ai-ui,ai). When the model fertility schedule is piecewise-constant, this may be rewritten in terms of age groups as
Summing over observations i yields the sample log likelihood
or, more intuitively,
The derivation of {8}shows that the indices (B1...BG,Y1...YG) contain all the information necessary for maximum likelihood estimation of any piecewise-constant fertility model from last-birth data. Event and exposure totals for each age group are sufficient summaries of the observable fertility histories.
2.4 Poisson Estimation
Equation {8} is closely related to the Poisson distribution. The natural logarithm of the probability that a Poisson process with rate l generates B events in Y years is
where C = B ln Y - ln B!. Except for the C terms (which do not vary with l), the log likelihood in {8} is a sum of the logs of G Poisson probabilities, one per age group. Thus, for any individual-level model with piecewise-constant fertility levels, one can calculate maximum likelihood estimators for parameters by pretending that the aggregate-level DLB data have distributions
This estimation procedure, derived here for open-interval DLB data, is identical to that used by Broström [3] for standard fertility data.
2.5 Discussion
The distributional result in {10} leads us to one of this paper's main points. A researcher using DLB data may use standard methods for estimating rates or fertility parameters. Estimation procedures for open-birth interval (DLB) or last-year (BLY) data differ only in the manner in which the data sets are assembled, not in the quantitative methods used. DLB data require no special statistical techniques, despite the unusual sampling scheme that generates the DLB versions of Yg, Bg, or other data summaries.
This conclusion held for the simple model presented in [8] (Equations (2) and (3)), and the exposition here shows that it is equally true for any fertility model in which rates are a function of age group. Furthermore, because age groups may be arbitrarily narrow, we expect (although we have not formally proven it here) that the main result - i.e., that appropriate estimation methods are identical for BLY and DLB data - also applies to models in which f(a) is a continuous function of exact age.
|Estimating Parametric Fertility Models
with Open Birth Interval Data
Carl P. Schmertmann
André Junqueira Caetano
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