Poster Session 4: Aging, Population Trends and Methods, Religion and Gender

Friday, May 2 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Grand Ballroom A 3rd Floor

1.	Census 2000 as a Source of Data on Disability  •   John Haaga, Population Reference Bureau

2.	Cognitive Impairment as a Predictor of Functional Declines; Japanese Cohort Study  •   Hiroko H. Dodge, University of Pittsburgh; Takashi Kadowaki, Shiga University of Medical Science; Takehito Hayakawa, Shiga University of Medical Science; Hirotsugu Ueshima, Shiga University of Medical Science

3.	Social Environment and Cognitive Function in an Elderly Population  •   David A. Landau, Georgetown University; Maxine Weinstein, Georgetown University; Shu-Hui Lin, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan

4.	Disability Transition Risk: Estimates from Russian Panel Data with Modifications for Kazakhstan  •   Charles Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder; Irina Merkuryeva, St. Petersburg State University

5.	A Geographic Assessment of Changes in Elderly Disability in the US: 1990-2000  •   Ge Lin, West Virginia University

6.	Changes in the Prevalence of ADL Limitation among Older Asians: A Cross-Country Comparison  •   Mary Beth Ofstedal, University of Michigan; Angelique Chan, National University of Singapore; Albert Hermalin, University of Michigan; Josefina Natividad, University of the Philippines

7.	Ageing of the Dying, Ageing of Experiencing Death  •   Alain Monnier, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Sophie Pennec, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

8.	Socio-Demographic Determinants of Comorbidity at the Time of Death in Four Asian American Groups  •   Mira M. Hidajat, Pennsylvania State University

9.	The Impact of Worklife Patterns on Health at Older Ages  •   Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland

10.	Relative Deprivation and Health among the Elderly in Taiwan  •   Jennifer Dowd, Princeton University

11.	A Study of Elderly Care and the Well-being of the Elderly in China  •   Peiyun She, University of California, Berkeley

12.	Mobility Difficulty among Older Persons in India: Evidence from the National Sample Survey  •   Manisha Sengupta, Johns Hopkins University; Emily M. Agree, Johns Hopkins University

13.	Is an Impaired Nutritional Status Passed on from One Generation to the Next? A Case Study among adolescents and their parents in Matlab, Bangladesh  •   Alinda Bosch, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

14.	Do Intergenerational Transfers Reduce Household Income Inequality among Older People in Peninsular Malaysia?  •   Julie DaVanzo, RAND; Shahina Amin, University of Northern Iowa

15.	Work Participation and Decision Making Pattern of Rural Women in South India- A Micro Level Analysis  •   Jyothi Santhosh, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore; Gracy Paily, University of California, Berkeley

16.	Various Motives of Bequest in Indonesia  •   Turro Wongkaren, University of Hawaii at Manoa

17.	Attitude toward Reliance on Children as Old Age Suport in Transitional Taiwan  •   Li-Shou Yang, University of Michigan

18.	Racial Difference in Family Lineages in the United States  •   Rongjun Sun, Cleveland State University; Sarah Matthews, Cleveland State University

19.	Race and the Living Arrangements of Elderly Brazilians 1970-1998  •   Susan De Vos, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Flavia Andrade, University of Wisconsin at Madison

20.	Living Arrangements of Older Women and Men in Egypt  •   Kathryn M. Yount, Emory University

21.	Living Arrangements of the Elderly in South Africa  •   Amadou Noumbissi, University of Pennsylvania; Chuks Mbamaonyeukwu, University of Pennsylvania

22.	Examining Living Arrangements of Widows in India Using Core National Family Health Survey Data  •   Pushpanjali Swain, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare

23.	Korean American Elderly Transitions to Independent Living  •   Jibum Kim, University of Chicago

24.	Women, Ethnicity and Ageing in the UK  •   Mahmood Messkoub, Leeds University

25.

An Ethnic Comparison of the Economic Situation of Widows: Longitudinal Evidence from the H-EPESE and AHEAD  •   Jacqueline L. Angel, University of Texas at Austin; Cynthia Buckley, University of Texas at Austin; Ronald Angel, University of Texas at Austin; Maren Andrea Jimenez, University of Texas at Austin

26.	Race Inequities in Women’s Retirement: An Evaluation of the Intervening Effects of Health, Wealth, and Work and Family Histories  •   Tyson Brown, University of Florida

27.	About the Imbalance of Power between Men and Women – A Case Study from Austria  •   Irene M. Tazi-Preve, Austrian Academy of Sciences

28.	Social Security, Employment, and Retirement Outcomes for Single Mothers  •   Richard W. Johnson, Urban Institute; Melissa M. Favreault, Urban Institute

29.	Retirement and Work, Work and Retirement: How Do We Know?  •   John Scott, University of Maryland

30.	Securing Family Benefits: Social Security Reform in the 21st Century  •   Pamela Herd, University of Michigan

31.	What's Acceptable to Ask? Exploring Questions about Sexual Behavior with Women in North India  •   Shelah S. Bloom, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sunita Singh, Banaras Hindu University; Kaushalendra K. Singh, Banaras Hindu University

32.	Religion and the Ideal Number of Children in Developed Countries  •   Alicia Adsera, University of Illinois at Chicago

33.	On the Effects of Presence of Others during Interview in a Large Scale National Family Health Survey in India  •   Krishna Mohan P.V.T., Surat NHL Municipal Medical College

34.	Methods for Measuring Pregnancy Intentions: Examining Intentions of Women’s First, Last and Current Pregnancies in a Sample of Women from New Orleans  •   Ilene S. Speizer, DynCorp; John S. Santelli, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Aimee Afable, Tulane University

35.	A Spatial Microsimulation Model for Rural Ireland—Evidence from the 2002 Irish Census of Population  •   Emily Wiemers, Rural Economy Research Centre, Ireland; Dimitris Ballas, University of Leeds; Graham Clarke, University of Leeds

36.	Adjusting the Age Distribution of the Population Age 85 and over in the 1990 Census  •   Monique B. Williams, U.S. Census Bureau

37.	Will the Long Term Historical Database at the Census Tract Level Improve the Accuracy of the Long Term Population Projection for Census Tracts?  •   S. Simon Choi, Southern California Association of Governments; Jung Won Son, University of California, Los Angeles

38.	Core Based Statistical Areas, 1960-2000  •   Todd K. Gardner, U.S. Census Bureau

39.	Future Household Transportation Demand: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Austria  •   Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Leiwen Jiang, Peking University; Brian C. O'Neill, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

40.	On the Indirect Estimation Method and Application of Age-Specific Fertility Rate and Total Fertility Rate  •   Guangzhou Wang, China Population Information and Research Center (CPIRC)

41.	Population Momentum under Gradual Demographic Transitions and Ultimate Population Size  •   Sushil Khanal, Centre for Research Development Programme; I.P. Panthee, ; Rabi Khanal,

42.	The Statistical Modeling of the Fertility of Chinese Women  •   Dudley L. Poston, Texas A&M University

43.	Hindu-Muslim Differentials in Fertility: A Visit to Minority Hypothesis  •   Aparajita Chatterjee, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Ram B. Bhagat, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Tarun K. Roy, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

44.	Many Faiths of Many Regions: Exploring County-Level Religion Statistics in the United States  •   Clifford Grammich, RAND

45.	Explaining Fertility Differentials in the Contemporary Jewish Population  •   Dawn S. Hurst, Ohio State University; Frank Mott, Ohio State University

46.	Is Fertility Impaired among the Longevous Women? Testing the Evolutionary Theories of Aging  •   Natalia S. Gavrilova, University of Chicago; Leonid A. Gavrilov, University of Chicago; Galina N. Evdokushkina, Ministry of Health, Russia; Victoria G. Semyonova, Ministry of Health, Russia

47.	Effects of Heterogeneity on the Spread of HIV/AIDS among Intravenous Drug Users in a Spatially Structured Environment  •   John R. D'Souza, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Lysander M. Menezes, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

48.	Demographic Constraints on Regional Development in the EU's Periphery  •   David A. Swanson, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration

49.	The Characteristics of Wisconsin Communities That Increased Household Size between 1990 and 2000  •   Donald Harrier, State of Wisconsin; David A. Egan-Robertson, State of Wisconsin

50.	Tenure Shift in Contemporary Urban China: A Longitudinal Analysis  •   Youqin Huang, University at Albany, State University of New York

51.	The Birth of a Nation: The Demography of East Timor  •   Thomas M McDevitt, U.S. Census Bureau; Peter Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau

52.	Higher Decadal Population Growth Rate in Bihar, Northern State in India, during 1991-2001: An Investigation for Possible Reasons from the Preliminary Census 2001 Data  •   Ajay Pandey, National Commission on Population (NCP)

53.	Assessing the Socio-Demographic Impact of Hurricane Floyd in Eastern North Carolina: Combining Quantitative, Qualitative, and Spatial Methods  •   Daniel H. de Vries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

54.	Analysis of Demographic Segmentation of Local Residents in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area: A GIS Approach for the Potential Park Visitors  •   Bob D. Lee, Pennsylvania State University; Alan Graefe, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Burns, University of Florida

55.	Changes in Status and Autonomy of Women in the Brazilian Demographic Processes  •   Jose Eustáquio Diniz Alves, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)

56.	Determinants and Manifestations of Women’s Autonomy in Bolivia and Nicaragua  •   Tina Huntsman, Brigham Young University; Dallan F. Flake, Brigham Young University; Tim B. Heaton, Brigham Young University

57.	Agreement between Husband and Wife Reports of Domestic Violence: Evidence from Poor Refugee Communities in Lebanon  •   Marwan Khawaja, American University of Beirut; Mylene Salem, American University of Beirut

58.	Violence against Women and Self-Reported Reproductive Morbidity: Relationship Examined  •   Gurumurthy Rangaiyan, Population Council; Ravi K. Verma, Population Council; Rajib Acharya, ORC Macro and Johns Hopkins University; Madhumita Das, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

59.	Measuring Gender Differentials in Migration  •   Benoy Peter, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

60.	The Demography of Demography: Gender Transformation of a Social Science  •   Simona Bignami, University of Pennsylvania; Meredith A. Kleykamp, Princeton University; Ann Morning, Princeton University

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