Distance to health-care facilities: implication for under-five mortality in Nigeria • Sunday Adedini, University of the Witwatersrand ; Clifford O. Odimegwu, University of the Witwatersrand ; Olusina Bamiwuye, Obafemi Awolowo University ; Opeyemi Fadeyibi, Obafemi Awolowo University ; Sunday T. Omoyeni, Obafemi Awolowo University

The changing household size and structure in Iran • Akbar Aghajanian, Fayetteville State University

Cash transfers to mothers or fathers: educational and health impacts of a randomized experiment in Burkina Faso • Richard Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Damien de Walque, World Bank Group ; Harounan Kazianga, Oklahoma State University

Access to and utilization of reproductive health services by women with disabilities in rural Uganda • John M. Atwebembeire, Makerere University

Fertility decline and economic development in Iran • Ali Ayaseh, Kermanshah Azad University ; Sajede Vaezzade, Jahad-e Daneshgahi Kermanshah ; Ali asghar Moghadas, Shiraz University ; Akbar Aghajanian, Fayetteville State University

The ‘positive turn’? Women’s activity status and childbearing in Poland and Spain • Marcin Bągard, Warsaw School of Economics ; Marta Ibáñez Pascual, University of Oviedo ; Iga Sikorska, Warsaw School of Economics

Semi-super and super-centenarians in Italy: implementation of a longitudinal database • Marco Battaglini, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Giorgia Capacci, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Gianni Corsetti, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Marco Marsili, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

Is the mortality convergence between East and West Germany a result of selection? • Robert Beise, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Determining profiles of Turkish families by number of children: an application of data mining technique • Sebnem Bese Canpolat, Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) ; Kadir Korhan Babadag, Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat)

Expert opinions on precarious employment in Flanders • Kim Bosmans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Stefan Hardonk, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Christophe Vanroelen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Fred Louckx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The demographic decline of southern Italy • Marcantonio Caltabiano, Università di Messina ; Alessandro Rosina, Università Cattolica, Milan

Rural urban connectedness and commuting for work • S. Chandrasekhar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) ; Ajay Sharma, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)

Primary Health Care (PHC), maternal and child mortality in Nigeria: issues and implications • Shalom Chinedu, Covenant University ; Dominic E. Azuh, Covenant University

Men, women and baby longing: cross-national differences • Beatrice Chromková Manea, Masaryk University ; Anna Rotkirch, Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto ; Ladislav Rabusic, Masaryk University

The effect of retirement on self-reported health: a gender comparison in Italy • Lucia Coppola, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Daniele Spizzichino, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

Before or after fertility? Antecedents of the low schooling level achieved by a cohort of young mothers in Campinas, Brazil • Humberto Corrêa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Teenage fertility trends and poverty: implications for adolescent mothers in Ghana • Mavis Dako-Gyeke, University of Ghana ; Phyllis Dako-Gyeke, University of Ghana

Optimizing use of health system generated poor quality data: evidence using MCTS/HMIS data in improving maternal and child health outcomes in lowest performing state of Bihar, India • Arup Das, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Seasonality of death in a historical population • Mireia Esparza, Universitat de Barcelona ; Neus Martínez-Abadías, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Torstein Sjovold, Stockholm University ; Rolando González-José, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ; Clara E. Garcia-Moro, Universitat de Barcelona ; Anais Rivas, Universitat de Barcelona ; Miguel Hernández, Universitat de Barcelona

Gender differences among the immigrant population attended in primary care in downtown Barcelona • Esther Esteban, Universitat de Barcelona ; Olga Hladun, Institut Català de la Salut ; Robert Carreras-Torres, Universitat de Barcelona

Love boats: family formation and migration histories in Lombardy • Giuseppe Gabrielli, Università degli Studi di Bari ; Laura Terzera, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca ; Salvatore Strozza, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II ; Anna Paterno, Università degli Studi di Bari

Seventeen-year time trend in poor self-rated health in older adults: changing contributions of chronic diseases and disability • Henrike Galenkamp, VU University Medical Center ; Arjan Braam, Altrech Institute for Mental Health Care ; Martijn Huisman, VU University Medical Center ; Dorly J.H. Deeg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Gender differences on the mortality pattern on causes of death in Spain: recent signs of change • Juan Manuel García González, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja ; Rosa Gomez-Redondo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) ; Aina Faus Bertomeu, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Mothers’ labour force attachment in Europe: evidence from a multi-country survey • Anne H. Gauthier, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

Migrant women in Italy through the economic crisis: the role of female entrepreneurship • Cristina Giudici, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" ; Benedetta Cassani, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Historical reconstruction of the forces shaping the religious composition of the population of Vienna from 1951 to 2001 • Anne Goujon, Vienna Institute of Demography and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) ; Ramon Bauer, Vienna Institute of Demography ; Richard Gisser, Vienna Institute of Demography

Food accessibility and infant birth weight in Kenya: identifying vulnerable women before and during pregnancy • Kathryn Grace, University of Utah ; Molly Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Exploring the interactions between health, partnership and early life conditions • Jordi Gumà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Rocio Treviño-Maruri, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Antonio D. Cámara, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Sexual health of adolescents in India: a female scenario from NFHS-3 • Ratna Deep Gupta ; Temsumeren Longkumer

Disability in Bulgaria - ten years later • Kaloyan Haralampiev, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Forecast of education attainment of population in the Czech Republic to the year 2050 • Vladimir Hulik, Ministry of Education, Prague ; Klara Hulikova, Charles University in Prague

Effects of multiple roles on the psychosocial well-being of working mothers in Ghana • Ummu Ibrahim, University of Ghana ; Mavis Dako-Gyeke, University of Ghana

Commercialization of migration: the case of international traders from Lagos, Nigeria • Godwin O. Ikwuyatum, University of Ibadan

Cause of death mortality in Greece: regional variations and spatial patterns • Stamatis Kalogirou, Harokopio University of Athens ; Cleon Tsimbos, University of Piraeus ; Georgia Verropoulou, University of Piraeus ; George Kotsifakis, Hellenic Statistical Authority

The Japanese family system: continuity and change in the twentieth century • Akihiko Kato, Meiji University

Intergenerational correlations of health among older adults: empirical evidence from Indonesia • Younoh Kim, University of Southern California ; Bondan Sikoki, SurveyMETER ; John Strauss, University of Southern California ; Firman Witoelar, World Bank Group

Evolution of inequalities in cancer mortality in Hungary: a process interpreted in the context of epidemiological transition • Katalin Kovács, Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

Food insecurity and BMI: exploring mechanisms among American children • Lori Kowaleski-Jones, University of Utah ; Jessie X. Fan, University of Utah ; Ming Wen, University of Utah

Separated dads: determinants of father-child contact in Germany • Michaela Kreyenfeld, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Heike Trappe, University of Rostock ; Katja Köppen, University of Rostock

Childbearing intentions and outcomes among Finnish women • Lassi Lainiala, Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto ; Anneli Miettinen, Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto ; Anna Rotkirch, Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto

Breastfeeding and child survival in Ethiopia: evidence from 2005 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey • Gulilat Teshome Lake, USAID Deliver Project, Ethiopia

Cuban and Uruguayan life expectancy. Decomposing the differences between and within countries • Esther María León Díaz, Oficina Nacional de Estadisticas, Cuba ; Victoria Prieto Rosas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Madelín Gómez León, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED)

Marital separation and home ownership: a longitudinal analysis of life course dependencies • Philipp Lersch, University of Bremen ; Sergi Vidal, University of Bremen

Competition between gender and racial discriminations. The reason of the understatement of gender discriminations in quantitative surveys? • Maud Lesné, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Gender and relationship quality later in life: remarriage, cohabitation and non-cohabiting relationships • Alisa C. Lewin, University of Haifa

Fecundity and family structure in Spain • Mar Llorente, Universidad de Oviedo ; Montserrat Diaz, Universidad de Oviedo

Substance use and risky sexual behavior among the middle and late adolescent migrant college students in Shillong: a study in northeast, India • Temsumeren Longkumer

Recent demographic and territorial transformations in the Madrid and Barcelona metropolitan regions: the centre and periphery dichotomy • Cristina López, Universitat de Barcelona ; Isabel Pujadas, Universitat de Barcelona ; Jordi Bayona-i-Carrasco, Universitat de Barcelona

Housing quality and welfare regimes: does householder’s age matter? • Julián López-Colás, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) ; Juan A. Módenes, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Brenda Yépez-Martínez, Universidad Central de Venezuela

Gender- and cadre-specific distributional inequality of the Tanzanian health workforce • Angelina Lutambi Mageni, Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) ; Amon Exavery, Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) ; Godfrey Mbaruku, Ifakara Health Institute (IHI)

Women's employment and the realisation of fertility intentions in Hungary and in France • Zsuzsanna Makay, Demographic Research Institute

Exploring world demography on line: a new freely accessible online tool for interactive mapping of population and demographic indicators • Hélène Mathian, UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, CNRS ; Gilles Pison, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Christine Plumejeaud, UMR 5217 LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble ; Jérôme Gensel, UMR 5217 LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble

Studying poverty over time: an analysis by gender and age in Europe • Daria Mendola, University of Palermo ; Annalisa Busetta, University of Palermo

Migrants selectivity and the effects on environmental-induced migration project in Sanjiangyuan area in China • Xiangjing Meng, Renmin University of China

The incompatibility between labour force participation and fertility for women in Spain • Pau Miret-Gamundi, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) ; Elena Vidal-Coso, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Older boom: differences, processes and response policies in selected developing and developed countries • Mahmoud Moshfegh, Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and the Pacific ; Mohammad Javad Mahmoudi, Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and the Pacific ; Shahla Kazemipour Sabet, Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and the Pacific ; Ghorban Hosseni, Population Studies and Research Center for Asia and the Pacific

Do female same-sex unions still have a higher risk of divorce than male same-sex unions? The case of Norway 1993 to 2010 • Turid Noack, Statistics Norway ; Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik, Statistics Norway ; Ane Seierstad, Statistics Norway

Socio-economic impact of labour migration on households: a case study of Malolwane Village, Kgatleng District (Botswana) • Bobby B.M. Paledi, University of Botswana

When married sons leave home: household fission in an agricultural society • Lisa D. Pearce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Jessica Pearlman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Taylor Hargrove, Vanderbilt University

Accessing the best possible neighborhood: family types and residential cross-segregation • David Pelletier, Université de Montréal

Religious differences in women’s fertility and labour force participation in France • Nitzan Peri-Rotem, Oxford University

Wavelet estimates for graduating demographic rates • Paraskevi Peristera, Stockholm University ; Anastasia Kostaki, Athens University of Economics and Business

Geographical divergence of mortality in Ukraine • Svitlana Poniakina, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Contextual determinants of internal migration of Latin Americans in Spain (1998-2010) • Doris Cristina Quintero Lesmes, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Joaquin Recaño Valverde, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Men and their roles regarding sex, contraception, childbearing and childrearing • Ladislav Rabusic, Masaryk University ; Beatrice Chromková Manea, Masaryk University

Households headed by women: all poor and vulnerable? The case of south eastern Madagascar • Jossie Randriamiandrisoa, UMI Résiliences (France) and CRD-UCM (Madagascar)

A district level analysis of utilization of health services and RCH status in Uttar Pradesh, India • Manju Rani, Government Degree College, Chhaprauli ; Ravendra K. Sharma, Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (ICMR), India ; Ashok Kumar, Population Council ; Atvir Singh, Chaudhary Charan Singh University

Pattern of obstetric morbidity, its correlates and treatment seeking behaviour in Bihar, India • Rajiv Ranjan, Independent Researcher

Health transition of international migrants: a study of Indian and Chinese immigrants in the US • Lopamudra Ray Saraswati, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The recent evolution of mortality patterns over age across Europe • Filipe Ribeiro, Universidade de Évora ; Maria Mendes, Universidade de Évora

Ageing and health in Portugal (1970-2030). Politics and practise • Teresa Rodrigues, CEPESE ; Carla Leão, CEPESE

Influence of labour migration on economic and social situation of households and family relations (on an example of migrants from Tajikistan) • Sergey V. Ryazantsev, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Elena E. Pismennaya, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Roman Manshin, Russian Academy of Sciences ; Alexander A. Grebenyuk, Moscow Psychology-Social University ; Ekaterina A. Borisova, Moscow Psychology-Social University

Practices of essential newborn care among tribes of central India: a case study of Bhils of Madhya Pradesh, India • Kalyan B. Saha, Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (ICMR), India ; Ravendra K. Sharma, Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (ICMR), India ; Dinesh Kumar, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) ; Surendra Kumar, Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (ICMR), India

Do birds of a feather flock together? Effects of socio-economic homogamy on divorce risks in Sweden 1960-1962 • Glenn Sandström, Umeå University

Net fertility and socioeconomic status: the Swedish case at the onset of fertility decline. A preliminary look at 1890 and 1900 censuses data • Francesco Scalone, Università di Bologna ; Martin Dribe, Lund University

Who are the Spaniards and Swedes that marry foreign born people? • Joana Serret, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Female relative income and continued childbearing in Sweden (1968 to 2009) • Ernesto Silva, Lund University

Employment situation among various social groups in India • Vini Sivanandan, Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, India ; Arokiasamy Perianayagam, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Changes in the perception of family formation and development and the relationship between generations in Poland • Ewelina Slotwinska-Roslanowska, Warsaw School of Economics

New factors of population ethnic structure formation • Eugeny Soroko, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Regional disparities of German immigration to Switzerland • Ilka Steiner, University of Geneva

Religious demography of emerging economies. Age structures and fertility in the BRIC countries and the global religious consequences of their economic growth • Marcin Stonawski, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Cracow University of Economics ; Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) ; Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Center ; Brian J. Grim, Pew Research Center and Boston University

Lower unemployment, higher wages or open-door policy? The triggers of labour emigration from “new” to “old” EU member states after EU enlargement • Pawel A. Strzelecki, Warsaw School of Economics

Women’s economic activity and the marital stability in Poland • Marta Styrc, Warsaw School of Economics ; Anna Matysiak, Warsaw School of Economics

Peculiarities of divorce in Georgia in 1960-2009 • Avtandil Sulaberidze, Institute of Demography and Sociology, Georgia ; Vano Shushtakashvili, Institute of Demography and Sociology, Georgia ; Tamar Shinjiashvili, Institute of Demography and Sociology, Georgia ; Mariam Sulaberidze, Demographic Society of Georgia

Main family policy dilemmas in contemporary Poland - postulated directions of changes in the light of some European experiences • Joanna Szczepaniak-Sienniak, Wroclaw University of Economics

Women’s well-being in Kerman province of Iran • Azadeh Tashakori, Shiraz University ; Mehrnaz Hekmat, Azad University of Science and Technology ; Dariush Bustani, Kerman University

Nutritional deficiencies and childhood obesity in Turkey • Sabahat Tezcan, Hacettepe University ; Tuğba Adalı, Hacettepe University ; Elif Yiğit, Hacettepe University

Portugal: South or East European country? • Lidia Tomé, Universidade de Évora ; Maria Mendes, Universidade de Évora

Dual citizenship and integration of descendants of immigrants in Luxembourg • Jérôme Tourbeaux, CEPS/INSTEAD and IEDUB

Models of demographic behavior • Mare Vähi, University of Tartu ; Ene-Margit Tiit, University of Tartu

Injury mortality patterns in Estonia: enduring the breakdown of the Soviet world and riding through the global recession • Peeter Värnik, Estonian Institute for Population Studies ; Luule Sakkeus, Tallinn University

Return to work or transition to the next child? The behavior of eastern Germans, western Germans and East-West migrants • Anja Vatterrott, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Michaela Kreyenfeld, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Does public spending level mortality inequalities? Findings from East Germany after the unification • Tobias C. Vogt, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Fanny Kluge, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Age-specific proportion of shifted deaths and the tempo effect in period mortality • Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU)

Race and age discrimination in the treatment of cardiac diseases in Indonesia • Karina Wibowo, Jacobs University Bremen

Trends in mortality inequalities across UK local areas between 1991 and 2007 • Pia N. Wohland, Newcastle University ; Philip H. Rees, University of Leeds ; Carol Jagger, Newcastle University

Individual and social influence correlates of unprotected sex among female entertainment workers in China: a repeated measures analysis • Xiushi Yang, Old Dominion University ; Guomei Xia, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences