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Living to old age
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decrease in infant mortality
falling maternal mortality? increase in fertility (led to median age falling in u.s)-more people in younger category |
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categorical variable
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descriptive gender race
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continous varibale
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age. income?
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factors that affect age distribution
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mortality (infant mortality)
migration fertility* most important |
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age dependeny ratio
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number of 65+/number of 20-64
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lower fertility
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pill (1960)
abortion women's changing social roles |
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violation of age dependent ratio
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20 yr old not in workforce
65 yr in workforce unemployment rate |
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fertility rate highest in u.s?
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1960
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fertility rate for steady replacement/stable pop, not including migration
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2.1
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youth ratio
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persons 0-19/ per 100 20-64 persons *100
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elderly ratio
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ppl >65/per 100 ppl 20-64 *100
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life course
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change in social roles of people/change over time
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APC
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age period cohort problem
know 2, make predictions about 3rd. P= A+ C |
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cross sectional surveys
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less costly
fast data (e.g. response to crisis) cannot say aging fact don't indicate age related patterns, but difference in age. |
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cohort centrism
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observed in duke studies
studying elderly can't assume about younger cohorts. using experience of one cohort to judge others/ |
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synthetic cohort analysis
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measures of variable in surveys in repeated crosssections of US
not longitudinal; survey different ppl in cohort every time; = not intra internal change but successive ages. |
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what you might see in aging effect
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same behavior of each cohort over same age span.
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cohort effect
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same effect across years and thus age
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t or f:
period effects affect everybody regardless of age? |
TRUE!
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activity theory
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type of normative theory
addresses right way for people to age more active in old age, happier they'd be. the more social roles elderly people have, the happier they'd be. |
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disengagement theory
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cumming and henry 1961
-decreases in number and amount of social interactions as we age (except kin) -qualititative change in social interactions (e.g. elderly are social boss) change in individual personality (more preoccupied with themselves, decreased responsiveness to social norms). - |
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(ordered) cohort flow
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different people in cohort due to mortality not birth
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allocation
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admissions at college
links people who are different ages and roles open to people at given age sorting ppl into roles |
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socialiazation
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what people can do at different ages.
two kinds, primary and secondary primary is self care secondary people's life learning expecations |
