W Parker Frisbie
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 20357 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W Parker Frisbie |
| NOMBRES | W Parker |
| APELLIDO | Frisbie |
| FIRMA | FRISBIE W P |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 543 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Sociological Human Ecology
This chapter discusses the development of Amos H. Hawley’s theoretical perspective on sociological human ecology, focusing on his 1950 book, although some of his other work will also be identified and discussed in order to place his ideas within the proper perspective. It examines the two major theoretical models or paradigms which are pre-eminent in contemporary sociological human ecology: the ecological complex model and the sustenance organiza…
Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Differentials and Changes in Cause-Specific Infant Deaths in the Context of Declining Infant Mortality in the U.S
Paradox found (again)
Recent research suggests that the favorable mortality outcomes for the Mexican immigrant population in the United States may largely be attributable to selective out-migration among Mexican immigrants, resulting in artificially low recorded death rates for the Mexican-origin population. In this paper, we calculate detailed age-specific infant mortality rates by maternal race/ethnicity and nativity for two important reasons: (1) it is extremely un…
Race/Ethnic differences and age-variation in the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality in the U.S
This paper investigates the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality for non-Hispanic white, black, and Mexican-American females in the U.S. (1995-1998). Proportional hazard models with age-varying effects of continuous birth outcome measures rev
Nativity, Duration of Residence, and the Health of Hispanic Adults in the United States
This article examines subgroup differences in the health status of Hispanic adults in comparison to non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic lacks. We pay particular attention to the influences of nativity and duration of residence in the United States. Data are pooled from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for 1989–94. Puerto Ricans exhibited the worst health outcomes of any group (including whites and blacks) for each of the three health …
The increasing racial disparity in infant mortality
Although substantial declines in infant mortality rates have occurred across racial/ethnic groups, there has been a marked increase in relative black-white disparity in the risk of infant death over the past two decades. The objective of our analysis was to gain insight into the reasons for this growing inequality on the basis of data from linked cohort files for 1989–1990 and 1995–1998. We found a nationwide reversal from a survival advantage to…
Race/Ethnicity, Apgar and Infant Mortality
Hispanic Pregnancy Outcomes
In light of major changes over the past decade or two in the structure of infant mortality in the United States, the primary objectives of this article are to document recent variation in pregnancy outcomes in specific Hispanic populations compared with non‐Hispanic Whites and to estimate the contemporaneous association of ethnicity with risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and infant mortality. The primary data employed are the 1995–1997 NCH…
Immigration and the Health of Asian and Pacific Islander Adults in the United States
The authors used the 1992–1995 National Health Interview Survey to examine the effect of immigrant status (both nativity and duration of residence in the United States) on the health of Asian and Pacific Islander adults by constructing models in which national origin was also specified. In logistic regression models adjusted for age, marital status, living arrangement, family size, and several socioeconomic indicators, immigrants were found to be…
Prenatal Care Utilization Among Non-Hispanic Whites, African Americans, and Mexican Americans
Race/Ethnic-Specific Variation in Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization
This article examines the effects of various demographic and biomedical covariates on the level of prenatal care utilization (Kotelchuck's APNCU) received by U.S. resident women giving birth between the years 1989 and 1991 (N≈ 10 million). Results from multinomial logistic regression models for thirteen different race/ethnic groups show a strikingly consistent pattern of effects between covariates and the level of prenatal care obtained. Across r…
Race/ethnic differentials in heavy weight and cesarean births
Intra-Ethnic diversity in hispanic child mortality, 1890–1910
Using a representative sample of the Hispanic population of the United States based on the manuscripts of the 1910 census, we estimate childhood mortality for the period from approximately 1890 to 1910. We find high child mortality in the Hispanic population, higher than for non-Hispanic whites but not significantly different than among nonwhite non-Hispanics (mostly African Americans). Hispanic rural farm populations in California, Texas, and Ar…
Intra-Ethnic Diversity in Hispanic Child Mortality, 1890-1910
Using a representative sample of the Hispanic population of the United States based on the manuscripts of the 1910 census, we estimate childhood mortality for the period from approximately 1890 to 1910. We find high child mortality in the Hispanic population, higher than for non-Hispanic whites but not significantly different than among nonwhite non-Hispanics (mostly African Americans). Hispanic rural farm populations in California, Texas, and Ar…
Demographic Models of Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality
Most demographic studies use 2,500 grams of birth weight and 37 weeks of gestation as cutpoints for evaluating the effects of adverse birth outcomes on infant mortality. We propose an alternative strategy, which relies on continuous measures of birth outcomes, identifies an optimal combination of birth weight and gestational age for infant survival, and estimates the effects of adverse birth outcomes in terms of their departure from this "optimal…
Demographic models of birth outcomes and infant mortality
Most demographic studies use 2,500 grams of birth weight and 37 weeks of gestation as cutpoints for evaluating the effects of adverse birth outcomes on infant mortality. We propose an alternative strategy, which relies on continuous measures of birth outcomes, identifies an optimal combination of birth weight and gestational age for infant survival, and estimates the effects of adverse birth outcomes in terms of their departure from this “optimal…
A New Look at the Hispanic Population of the United States in 1910
With regard to the US Hispanic population in 1910 two maps indicate the location of Hispanic oversample counties both nationwide and in California Arizona New Mexico Texas and Kansas. The following tables are presented: the estimated size of the Hispanic population in 1910; initial sample counties for 1910 Hispanic oversample; additional sample counties for 1910 Hispanic oversample; sampling fraction and sample weights for Hispanics in the 1910 c…
Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Infant Mortality in the United States
Birth outcome, not pregnancy process
In a recent article (Frisbie. Forbes. and Pullum 1996) we documented racial/ethnic differences in birth outcomes according to a more fine-grained classification than has typically been employed in the demographic literature. In his commentary, van der Veen focuses on the measurement of one of the dimensions of that classification, maturity of the infant. as proxied by the fetal growth ratio. The crux of the critique is easily seen in van der Veen…
Racial and ethnic differences in determinants of intrauterine growth retardation and other compromised birth outcomes
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the extent of variation by race/ethnicity in the prevalence of adverse birth outcomes, whether differentials persisted after other risk factors were controlled for, and whether the direction and magnitude of relationships differed by type of outcome. METHODS: A revised system of measurement was used to estimate multinomial logistic models in a large, nationally representative US data set. RESULTS: Considerable raci…
Compromised birth outcomes and infant mortality among racial and ethnic groups
Research based on hospital records demonstrates that many births classified as normal according to conventional demographic measurement are intrauterine growth-retarded (IUGR) when evaluated clinically; also, in addition to birth weight and gestational age, it is necessary to focus on a third dimension, maturity, in analyses of birth outcomes. Although clinical studies allow more precise classification, the small number of cases tends to result i…
Spanish Surname and Anglo Infant Mortality
Using a half-century of death records from San Antonio/Bexar County, Texas, we examine the timing and cause structure of Spanish surname and Anglo infant mortality. Our findings show that despite the substantial disparities between ethnic-specific infant mortality rates in the early years of the study, there have been consistent declines in overall, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality for both groups, as well as a major convergence of mortality …
Rural-to-Urban Transition and the Division of Labor
Ecological theory proposes that the evolution of societies from rural-based to urban-based forms of organization occurs as cities coordinate a widening territorial division of labor. This research assesses the efficacy of this model in Saudi Arabia and represents a crucial test of the generalizability of ecological theory. The rural-to-urban transition in that country did not proceed, as it did in much of the rest of the world, in the context of …
Harvest of Confusion
Handbooks Past and Present
Paradox found (again)
Recent research suggests that the favorable mortality outcomes for the Mexican immigrant population in the United States may largely be attributable to selective out-migration among Mexican immigrants, resulting in artificially low recorded death rates for the Mexican-origin population. In this paper, we calculate detailed age-specific infant mortality rates by maternal race/ethnicity and nativity for two important reasons: (1) it is extremely un…
Nativity, Duration of Residence, and the Health of Hispanic Adults in the United States
This article examines subgroup differences in the health status of Hispanic adults in comparison to non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic lacks. We pay particular attention to the influences of nativity and duration of residence in the United States. Data are pooled from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for 1989–94. Puerto Ricans exhibited the worst health outcomes of any group (including whites and blacks) for each of the three health …
Inequality and the Relative Size of Minority Populations
Socioeconomic differentials separating whites and blacks have been shown to correlate positively with the percentage of blacks in a population. However, in multiracial or multiethnic populations, it is necessary to take into account the effects of the relative size of each minority present in nonnegligible numbers. In the research reported here, the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and the proportion of Mexican Americans and blacks i…
Phenotype and Life Chances Among Chicanos
Data from a national Chicano survey with nearly 1000 respondents were examined to test the hypothesis that because of internal (intragroup) and external (intergroup) discrimination, both past and present, Mexican Americans with a European physical appearance will have more enhanced life chances as measured by higher socioeconomic status than Mexican Americans with an indigenous Native American physical appearance. Two variables, skin color and ph…
Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Infant Mortality in the United States
Components of Sustenance Organization and Nonmetropolitan Population Change
An assumption basic to human ecological theory, as developed by Gibbs, Hawley, Martin and others, states that a significant relationship exists between sustenance organization and population growth or decline. The present investigation transforms this assumption into an empirically verifiable hypothesis. Several components of sustenance organization are operationalized and found to account for a substantial proportion of the variation in relative…
The increasing racial disparity in infant mortality
Although substantial declines in infant mortality rates have occurred across racial/ethnic groups, there has been a marked increase in relative black-white disparity in the risk of infant death over the past two decades. The objective of our analysis was to gain insight into the reasons for this growing inequality on the basis of data from linked cohort files for 1989–1990 and 1995–1998. We found a nationwide reversal from a survival advantage to…
Compromised birth outcomes and infant mortality among racial and ethnic groups
Research based on hospital records demonstrates that many births classified as normal according to conventional demographic measurement are intrauterine growth-retarded (IUGR) when evaluated clinically; also, in addition to birth weight and gestational age, it is necessary to focus on a third dimension, maturity, in analyses of birth outcomes. Although clinical studies allow more precise classification, the small number of cases tends to result i…
Demographic models of birth outcomes and infant mortality
Most demographic studies use 2,500 grams of birth weight and 37 weeks of gestation as cutpoints for evaluating the effects of adverse birth outcomes on infant mortality. We propose an alternative strategy, which relies on continuous measures of birth outcomes, identifies an optimal combination of birth weight and gestational age for infant survival, and estimates the effects of adverse birth outcomes in terms of their departure from this “optimal…
Racial and ethnic differences in determinants of intrauterine growth retardation and other compromised birth outcomes
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the extent of variation by race/ethnicity in the prevalence of adverse birth outcomes, whether differentials persisted after other risk factors were controlled for, and whether the direction and magnitude of relationships differed by type of outcome. METHODS: A revised system of measurement was used to estimate multinomial logistic models in a large, nationally representative US data set. RESULTS: Considerable raci…
Spanish Surname and Anglo Infant Mortality
Using a half-century of death records from San Antonio/Bexar County, Texas, we examine the timing and cause structure of Spanish surname and Anglo infant mortality. Our findings show that despite the substantial disparities between ethnic-specific infant mortality rates in the early years of the study, there have been consistent declines in overall, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality for both groups, as well as a major convergence of mortality …
Sustenance Differentiation and Population Redistribution
This paper examines the extent to which sustenance differentiation— an important dimension of the division of labor—influences the redistribution of the population through net migration in the nonmetropolitan counties of the United States during the 1960s. An ecological explanation of this type is shown to be most viable, even when controls for a number of competing explanations are introduced. The evidence provided in this paper supports the lon…
The Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mexican Immigrant Status Groups
Based on Warren and Passel's (1984) estimate that nearly two-thirds of Mexican-born noncitizens entering the U.S. during 1975–80 and included in the 1980 Census are undocumented immigrants, this article uses the 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican origin immigrant status groups — post 1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. The patter…
Trend Studies With Survey Sample and Census Data
The sociological literature has long been replete with statements about the need for more studies with a temporal dimension. Until recently, however, a large majority of published sociological studies have had only limited temporal depth, at best, and thus have tended to give a static view of the phenomena studied. Only in the past few years has there been a substantial increase in studies that utilize data collected over a period of years or dec…
Hispanic Pregnancy Outcomes
In light of major changes over the past decade or two in the structure of infant mortality in the United States, the primary objectives of this article are to document recent variation in pregnancy outcomes in specific Hispanic populations compared with non‐Hispanic Whites and to estimate the contemporaneous association of ethnicity with risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and infant mortality. The primary data employed are the 1995–1997 NCH…
Variation in Patterns of Marital Instability among Hispanics
Marital disruption among the three largest Hispanic populations in the United States is analyzed. The focus of the study is a comparison between the low levels of marital disruption observed among Mexican Americans and indicators for other Hispanic populations. The results indicate substantial diversity among the Hispanic populations observed with regard to marital stability and instability. The importance of socioeconomic factors is emphasized. …
The Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mexican Immigrant Status Groups
Frank D. Bean, Harley L. Browning, W. Parker Frisbie, The Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mexican Immigrant Status Groups: Implications for Studying Undocumented Mexicans, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, Special Issue: Irregular Migration: An International Perspective (Autumn, 1984), pp. 672-691
Race/Ethnicity/Nativity Differentials and Changes in Cause-Specific Infant Deaths in the Context of Declining Infant Mortality in the U.S
A New Look at the Hispanic Population of the United States in 1910
With regard to the US Hispanic population in 1910 two maps indicate the location of Hispanic oversample counties both nationwide and in California Arizona New Mexico Texas and Kansas. The following tables are presented: the estimated size of the Hispanic population in 1910; initial sample counties for 1910 Hispanic oversample; additional sample counties for 1910 Hispanic oversample; sampling fraction and sample weights for Hispanics in the 1910 c…
Race/ethnic differentials in heavy weight and cesarean births
Intra-Ethnic diversity in hispanic child mortality, 1890–1910
Using a representative sample of the Hispanic population of the United States based on the manuscripts of the 1910 census, we estimate childhood mortality for the period from approximately 1890 to 1910. We find high child mortality in the Hispanic population, higher than for non-Hispanic whites but not significantly different than among nonwhite non-Hispanics (mostly African Americans). Hispanic rural farm populations in California, Texas, and Ar…
Recent Changes in Marital Instability among Mexican Americans
Differences in Marital Instability among Mexican Americans, Blacks, and Anglos
A comparative analysis of differences in marital instability, carried out over time as well as cross-sectionally, indicates that the relative frequency of marital disruption of ever-married women is low among Mexican Americans, followed by Anglos and Blacks in ascending order. Introduction of controls for age, age at first marriage, and other potential determinants of marital solidarity does not alter the ranking by ethnicity. The results suggest…
Race/Ethnic differences and age-variation in the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality in the U.S
This paper investigates the effects of birth outcomes on infant mortality for non-Hispanic white, black, and Mexican-American females in the U.S. (1995-1998). Proportional hazard models with age-varying effects of continuous birth outcome measures rev
Race/Ethnicity, Apgar and Infant Mortality
New Converts to the American Dream? Mobility Aspirations of Young Mexican Americans. Celia S. Heller
Components of Sustenance Organization and Nonmetropolitan Population Change
An assumption basic to human ecological theory, as developed by Gibbs, Hawley, Martin and others, states that a significant relationship exists between sustenance organization and population growth or decline. The present investigation transforms this assumption into an empirically verifiable hypothesis. Several components of sustenance organization are operationalized and found to account for a substantial proportion of the variation in relative…
Minority Migrants in the Urban Community
Differences in Marital Instability among Mexican Americans, Blacks, and Anglos
A comparative analysis of differences in marital instability, carried out over time as well as cross-sectionally, indicates that the relative frequency of marital disruption of ever-married women is low among Mexican Americans, followed by Anglos and Blacks in ascending order. Introduction of controls for age, age at first marriage, and other potential determinants of marital solidarity does not alter the ranking by ethnicity. The results suggest…
Urban Latin America
Trend Studies With Survey Sample and Census Data
The sociological literature has long been replete with statements about the need for more studies with a temporal dimension. Until recently, however, a large majority of published sociological studies have had only limited temporal depth, at best, and thus have tended to give a static view of the phenomena studied. Only in the past few years has there been a substantial increase in studies that utilize data collected over a period of years or dec…
Inequality and the Relative Size of Minority Populations
Socioeconomic differentials separating whites and blacks have been shown to correlate positively with the percentage of blacks in a population. However, in multiracial or multiethnic populations, it is necessary to take into account the effects of the relative size of each minority present in nonnegligible numbers. In the research reported here, the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and the proportion of Mexican Americans and blacks i…
The Demography of racial and ethnic groups
Sustenance Differentiation and Population Redistribution
This paper examines the extent to which sustenance differentiation— an important dimension of the division of labor—influences the redistribution of the population through net migration in the nonmetropolitan counties of the United States during the 1960s. An ecological explanation of this type is shown to be most viable, even when controls for a number of competing explanations are introduced. The evidence provided in this paper supports the lon…
Technology in Evolutionary and Ecological Perspective
The Demography of Racial and Ethnic Groups
Further Notes on the Conceptualization of Technology
Urban Sociology in the United States
Determinants of Fertility in Advanced Societies
This book is an overall review of the research and theories on the social factors determining fertility in advanced countries. The question is both how to beget enough children and not too many. Measures of fertility are standard: age-specific birth rate crude birth rate. The theories of fertility are Malthuss theory of population; demographic transition; and economic theory. Determinants of fertility in centuries preceding the modern period are …
Recent Changes in Marital Instability among Mexican Americans
Measuring Change
Recently Collxer and Semyonov attempted to link more closely diachronic theory and research by decomposing change scores into four components. They applied their measures to 1960-1970 socioeconomic status change among Long Island suburbs. The present article applies these and other alternative measures to suburban income change between 1970 and 1975 in the suburbs of all the largest U.S. urbanized areas for which data were available and tests pro…
Suburban Differentiation
This study seeks to establish the contemporary relevance of type of suburb (whether it is residential or “employing”), suburb age, and size for suburban differentiation. First, data are examined in replication of Schnore’s (1965) study of suburban differentiation. Second, the functions, age, and size of suburbs are explored as possible explanations for the socioeconomic and demographic differences among suburbs. The findings indicate that, for pr…
Sustenance Organization and Migration in Nonmetropolitan America
Metropolitan Function and Interdependence in the U.S. Urban System
Central to the ecological theory of urban systems is the notion of a territorial division of labor based on differentiation and interdependence and mediated by large urban centers performing metropolitan, i.e., control and coordination, functions. The hypothesis of a positive relationship between performance of metropolitan functions and extensiveness of involvement in the web of interdependence (the latter measured by volume and variety of trade…
Potential Labor Force Supply and Replacement in Mexico and the States of the Mexican Cession and Texas
Benjamin S. Bradshaw, W. Parker Frisbie, Potential Labor Force Supply and Replacement in Mexico and the States of the Mexican Cession and Texas: 1980-2000, The International Migration Review, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 394-409
Potential Labor Force Supply and Replacement in Mexico and the States of the Mexican Cession and Texas
Efforts to anticipate and account for future migration patterns would seem to hinge on an examination of the potential for the supply, demand and replacement of labor. In Mexico, the projected number of males entering the labor force ages will be about 48 percent larger in the 1980s than in the 1970s and entrants will outnumber departures by a labor force replacement ratio of 407 to 100—a fifty year high. Fertility declined significantly in Mexic…
Transitions and Social Change
The Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mexican Immigrant Status Groups
Frank D. Bean, Harley L. Browning, W. Parker Frisbie, The Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mexican Immigrant Status Groups: Implications for Studying Undocumented Mexicans, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, Special Issue: Irregular Migration: An International Perspective (Autumn, 1984), pp. 672-691
The Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mexican Immigrant Status Groups
Based on Warren and Passel's (1984) estimate that nearly two-thirds of Mexican-born noncitizens entering the U.S. during 1975–80 and included in the 1980 Census are undocumented immigrants, this article uses the 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican origin immigrant status groups — post 1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. The patter…
Population Change and Social Policy
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