birth cohort

Birth cohorts play an influential role in the process of social change.

The completed family size is also shown in figure 4.1 for real birth cohorts of women.

That way the cumulative birth cohort effect would be limited to only 5 years.

For women, a pattern of gradual increase was seen by birth cohort in all age groups.

Beginning in 1974, this study has continuously followed a birth cohort of approximately 500 offspring.

The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time.

Elderhood refers to those individuals who live past the life expectancy of their birth cohorts.

If any effects of birth cohort are minimal, further evaluation with a randomized trial would not be warranted.

There were slight differences in the characteristics of women who returned for follow-up versus the original birth cohort (Table 1).

Assumption 2 depends on the cumulative effect of birth cohort from ages a to b .

How do housing price booms and busts affect home ownership for different birth cohorts?

Enrollment of birth cohort and child follow-up.

Compared with the original birth cohort, the women who returned for follow-up tended to be those who were slightly older at the time of enrollment.

The concept of a generation is also used to locate particular birth cohorts in specific historical and cultural circumstances, such as the "Baby Boomers."

Research focuses mostly on whether point or period prevalence is increasing with time; cumulative incidence is sometimes used in studies of birth cohorts.

However, the Lothian Birth Cohort Study has such data.

Here, a researcher observes members of different birth cohorts at the same time, and then tracks all participants over time, charting changes in the groups.

Every birth cohort appears to be at greater risk from HPV and oral cancers than the group born before them.

For several years, Bohman had been studying the behavior of a large birth cohort of children born in Stockholm.

Birth cohort gap?

Birth cohort studies in Britain include four long-term medical and social studies, carried out over the lives of a group of participants, from birth.

Polly Toynbee: Birth cohort studies will reveal the full story of Tory social vandalism.

From 1989 to 1990, Coupland lived in the Mojave Desert working on a handbook about the birth cohort that followed the baby boom.

CLS houses three of Britain's internationally-renowned birth cohort studies: