Thomas W Pullum
Biographic Data
| ID | 222379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Pullum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Pullum |
| SIGNATURE | PULLUM T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8859-8144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Trends in socioeconomic inequality in mortality during childhood between 1993 and 2021 in India
INTRODUCTION: In India, most child deaths now occur within the first 28 days of birth. Trends in socioeconomic disparities in death during these early and late neonatal stages over the past few decades have been understudied. This paper elucidates these trends in early neonatal and late neonatal mortality by household wealth and maternal education. We also examined these trends for post neonatal and child mortality, thereby examining the risk of …
Prevalence of severe and moderate anthropometric failure among children in India, 1993–2021
Though child anthropometric failure (CAF) is a persistent problem in India, previous studies have often neglected state-level variance and aggregated moderate and severe CAF categories. This study addresses this gap by examining moderate and severe malnutrition across India's states and union territories (UTs) from 1993 to 2021. Data of children under 2 years old from five waves of National Family Health Surveys, a representative cross-sectional …
Variance estimation for effective coverage measures
BACKGROUND: Effective coverage research is increasing rapidly in global health and development, as researchers use a range of measures and combine data sources to adjust coverage for the quality of services received. However, most estimates of effective coverage that combine data sources are reported only as point estimates, which may be due to the challenge of calculating the variance for a composite measure. In this paper, we evaluate three met…
Population Dynamics
Preface from the New Editor-in-Chief
Homogamy by education and migration status in Monterrey, Mexico
A spatial analysis of childhood mortality in West Africa
It is suggested that environmental or geographical factors (e.g. population density, climate and disease environment) play an important role in determining infant and child survival above and beyond that played by individual and household level factors. Only recently, however, have relevant spatial data become available and have demographic survey data systematically recorded geographical location of surveyed households, or has the technology to …
Three Eras of Young Adult Home Leaving in Twentieth-Century America
Myron P. Gutmann, Sara M. Pullum-Pinñón, Thomas W. Pullum; Three Eras of Young Adult Home Leaving in Twentieth-Century America, Journal of Social History
A multivariate analysis of homogamy in Montevideo, Uruguay
This paper develops multivariate models to describe homogamy or, more generally, marriage preferences, for corresponding characteristics of brides and grooms. The purpose of these models is to obtain interpretable measures of the degree of homogamy (or marriage preference) on one dimension and to adjust these measures for homogamy on other dimensions. The models are applied to a sample of marriages in Montevideo, Uruguay, with pairs of correspond…
Family Dynamics in China
Child Mortality in the 1890s
Correlations between frequencies of kin
Recent years have seen the development of formal and microsimulation models of the structure and dynamics of kin networks. These models generally assume uncorrelated fertility within and across generations. Several sets of real data, however, show positive correlations between the frequencies of various categories of kin. This paper uses formal models to calculate the correlations that will exist between certain categories of kin even if mothers …
Alternative Estimates of Fertility Control by Using Parity Distributions
1988) proposed a procedure for inferring the existence of fertility control by using parity distributions. 1 There is a need for such procedures to complement those that use age-specific marital fertility rates The reasoning and techniques developed by David et al. constitute a major and promising step in this direction
Sociological Methodology 1989
Measuring change and continuity in parity distributions
Procedures are developed to allocate the change in mean fertility to the change in specific parities or groups of parities. One procedure uses the proportion at each parity and another uses parity progression ratios. Both are based on the delta method for approximating change in a function of several variables. Drawing on an analogy to survival in a life table, the relational logit model is applied to parity progression. This method allows severa…
Adapting Fertility Exposure Analysis to the Study of Fertility Change
Fertility exposure analysis was developed recently by Hobcraft and Little in order to evaluate the relative importance of the various proximate determinants upon levels of current fertility. In the present paper we extend the analysis to the study of changes in fertility between two cross-sectional surveys. We show how to express fertility change as a product of terms which represent changes in the proximate determinants. The model of change is a…
Fertility in Pakistan during the 1970s
A survey conducted in 1975, as part of the World Fertility Survey programme, provided evidence that fertility began to decline in Pakistan during the early 1970s. Because of the low level of contraceptive use recorded in that survey, the fertility decline was attributed to delayed marriage. However, a second and similar survey conducted approximately 5 years later showed almost exactly the same pattern of very recent decline, and indeed a reducti…
Blacks in the coronary artery surgery study (Cass)
For patients enrolled in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS), surgery was recommended for 46.5 per cent of Blacks and 59.4 per cent of Whites, despite similar clinical and angiographic characteristics. Of those recommended, 80.5 per cent of Blacks and 90.4 per cent of Whites had bypass surgery. These differences were most apparent for Black laborers. Overall, only 38.0 per cent of Blacks had coronary artery bypass surgery, whereas 58.4 per c…
Population estimates from longitudinal records in otherwise data-deficient settings
Existing methods for estimating population parameters in settings of data deficiency do not provide techniques for analysis of commonly available longitudinal data. In settings where complete population data is unavailable, longitudinal data recorded for only a subset of the total population are often available (e.g., event registers, genealogies). In this article we present and evaluate models which derive population parameters for the populatio…
The Eventual Frequencies of Kin in a Stable Population
Associated with every real birth cohort of women is a set of probabilities {fk} of eventually having k daughters. With a variant of stable population theory, these probabilities are used to generate the entire probability distributions, as well as all moments, for all categories of kin who are female and female-related. With additional assumptions, a full two-sex model for all kin also is given. The two-sex model is applied to a cohort of U.S. wo…
Estimating fertility trends from retrospective birth histories
In the birth history section of the Core Questionnaire adopted by the countries participating in the World Fertility Survey a question on the date of birth of each child born to the respondent is asked. When the woman cannot provide a date, as is often the case in many developing countries, she is asked how many 'years ago' the birth occurred. If the default is used, the month and year of the birth is imputed by a computer program: However, there…
An Introduction to Linear Programming and Matrix Game Theory
The General Linear Model and Direct Standardization
A formal comparison is made between direct standardization and three cross- classified data structures: tables of means which are linear additive; tables of means which are log-linear additive; and tables of frequencies which are log-linear addi tive and can be converted to tables of proportions which are logit-linear additive. Standardization is an appropriate method of summarizing the data if the differ ences between standardized means and so o…
Parametrizing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
Measuring Occupational Inheritance
Blacks in the coronary artery surgery study (Cass)
For patients enrolled in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS), surgery was recommended for 46.5 per cent of Blacks and 59.4 per cent of Whites, despite similar clinical and angiographic characteristics. Of those recommended, 80.5 per cent of Blacks and 90.4 per cent of Whites had bypass surgery. These differences were most apparent for Black laborers. Overall, only 38.0 per cent of Blacks had coronary artery bypass surgery, whereas 58.4 per c…
Three Eras of Young Adult Home Leaving in Twentieth-Century America
Myron P. Gutmann, Sara M. Pullum-Pinñón, Thomas W. Pullum; Three Eras of Young Adult Home Leaving in Twentieth-Century America, Journal of Social History
A spatial analysis of childhood mortality in West Africa
It is suggested that environmental or geographical factors (e.g. population density, climate and disease environment) play an important role in determining infant and child survival above and beyond that played by individual and household level factors. Only recently, however, have relevant spatial data become available and have demographic survey data systematically recorded geographical location of surveyed households, or has the technology to …
The Eventual Frequencies of Kin in a Stable Population
Associated with every real birth cohort of women is a set of probabilities {fk} of eventually having k daughters. With a variant of stable population theory, these probabilities are used to generate the entire probability distributions, as well as all moments, for all categories of kin who are female and female-related. With additional assumptions, a full two-sex model for all kin also is given. The two-sex model is applied to a cohort of U.S. wo…
A multivariate analysis of homogamy in Montevideo, Uruguay
This paper develops multivariate models to describe homogamy or, more generally, marriage preferences, for corresponding characteristics of brides and grooms. The purpose of these models is to obtain interpretable measures of the degree of homogamy (or marriage preference) on one dimension and to adjust these measures for homogamy on other dimensions. The models are applied to a sample of marriages in Montevideo, Uruguay, with pairs of correspond…
Correlations between frequencies of kin
Recent years have seen the development of formal and microsimulation models of the structure and dynamics of kin networks. These models generally assume uncorrelated fertility within and across generations. Several sets of real data, however, show positive correlations between the frequencies of various categories of kin. This paper uses formal models to calculate the correlations that will exist between certain categories of kin even if mothers …
Mathematical Sociology
Homogamy by education and migration status in Monterrey, Mexico
Measuring change and continuity in parity distributions
Procedures are developed to allocate the change in mean fertility to the change in specific parities or groups of parities. One procedure uses the proportion at each parity and another uses parity progression ratios. Both are based on the delta method for approximating change in a function of several variables. Drawing on an analogy to survival in a life table, the relational logit model is applied to parity progression. This method allows severa…
The General Linear Model and Direct Standardization
A formal comparison is made between direct standardization and three cross- classified data structures: tables of means which are linear additive; tables of means which are log-linear additive; and tables of frequencies which are log-linear addi tive and can be converted to tables of proportions which are logit-linear additive. Standardization is an appropriate method of summarizing the data if the differ ences between standardized means and so o…
Inequality
Alternative Estimates of Fertility Control by Using Parity Distributions
1988) proposed a procedure for inferring the existence of fertility control by using parity distributions. 1 There is a need for such procedures to complement those that use age-specific marital fertility rates The reasoning and techniques developed by David et al. constitute a major and promising step in this direction
Adapting Fertility Exposure Analysis to the Study of Fertility Change
Fertility exposure analysis was developed recently by Hobcraft and Little in order to evaluate the relative importance of the various proximate determinants upon levels of current fertility. In the present paper we extend the analysis to the study of changes in fertility between two cross-sectional surveys. We show how to express fertility change as a product of terms which represent changes in the proximate determinants. The model of change is a…
Parametrizing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
A Mathematical Model for Determining Effectiveness of Family Planning Clinics
This paper uses a mathematical model to determine the differential success of some family planning clinics operated by a private organization in Colombia. Success is measured in terms of new recruits. Profamilia a private family planning organization was founded in Bogota Colombia in 1966. An examination of 22 clinics operated by Profamilia reveals that there are 2 current trends: 1) clinics in which the number of new acceptors recruited monthly …
Estimating fertility trends from retrospective birth histories
In the birth history section of the Core Questionnaire adopted by the countries participating in the World Fertility Survey a question on the date of birth of each child born to the respondent is asked. When the woman cannot provide a date, as is often the case in many developing countries, she is asked how many 'years ago' the birth occurred. If the default is used, the month and year of the birth is imputed by a computer program: However, there…
A vital statistics-based procedure for estimating conception rates
A method for estimating conception rates, using vital statistics data, is developed and applied to data on five-year age groups of California women for 1971. The approach is deterministic and allocates total exposure time to the known pregnancy outcomes of live birth, spontaneous abortion, and induced abortion. The population at risk is defined to exclude women who are known to be sterile or sexually inactive. Early fetal loss, premarital concept…
Effectiveness of abortion as birth control
The Mathematics of Collective Action. James S. Coleman
A Comparison of Book Reviewing by the AJS and the ASR
A Comparison of Book Reviewing by the AJS and the ASR
What can Mathematical Models Tell us About Occupational Mobility
A description is given of most models and methods which have recently been proposed for describing aggregate movement over a set of occupational categories, both during a single interval of time and over a sequence of intervals; contingency tables and Markov chains are emphasized. Substantial movement (in an aggregate sense) is 'explained' by simple effects of supply, demand, age of respondent, etc., without knowledge of nondemographic variables …
Elements of Mathematical Sociology. Murray A. Beauchamp
Inequality
Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships
A Mathematical Model for Determining Effectiveness of Family Planning Clinics
This paper uses a mathematical model to determine the differential success of some family planning clinics operated by a private organization in Colombia. Success is measured in terms of new recruits. Profamilia a private family planning organization was founded in Bogota Colombia in 1966. An examination of 22 clinics operated by Profamilia reveals that there are 2 current trends: 1) clinics in which the number of new acceptors recruited monthly …
Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships
Effectiveness of abortion as birth control
Mathematical Sociology
The Mathematics of Collective Action. James S. Coleman
Comment on Mc Kenna's "Marriage and Fertility in Postfamine Ireland"
Measuring Occupational Inheritance
Introduction to Structural Equation Models.Otis Dudley Duncan
Measuring Occupational Inheritance
A vital statistics-based procedure for estimating conception rates
A method for estimating conception rates, using vital statistics data, is developed and applied to data on five-year age groups of California women for 1971. The approach is deterministic and allocates total exposure time to the known pregnancy outcomes of live birth, spontaneous abortion, and induced abortion. The population at risk is defined to exclude women who are known to be sterile or sexually inactive. Early fetal loss, premarital concept…
Parametrizing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
The General Linear Model and Direct Standardization
A formal comparison is made between direct standardization and three cross- classified data structures: tables of means which are linear additive; tables of means which are log-linear additive; and tables of frequencies which are log-linear addi tive and can be converted to tables of proportions which are logit-linear additive. Standardization is an appropriate method of summarizing the data if the differ ences between standardized means and so o…
An Introduction to Linear Programming and Matrix Game Theory
Estimating fertility trends from retrospective birth histories
In the birth history section of the Core Questionnaire adopted by the countries participating in the World Fertility Survey a question on the date of birth of each child born to the respondent is asked. When the woman cannot provide a date, as is often the case in many developing countries, she is asked how many 'years ago' the birth occurred. If the default is used, the month and year of the birth is imputed by a computer program: However, there…
The Eventual Frequencies of Kin in a Stable Population
Associated with every real birth cohort of women is a set of probabilities {fk} of eventually having k daughters. With a variant of stable population theory, these probabilities are used to generate the entire probability distributions, as well as all moments, for all categories of kin who are female and female-related. With additional assumptions, a full two-sex model for all kin also is given. The two-sex model is applied to a cohort of U.S. wo…
Population estimates from longitudinal records in otherwise data-deficient settings
Existing methods for estimating population parameters in settings of data deficiency do not provide techniques for analysis of commonly available longitudinal data. In settings where complete population data is unavailable, longitudinal data recorded for only a subset of the total population are often available (e.g., event registers, genealogies). In this article we present and evaluate models which derive population parameters for the populatio…
Fertility in Pakistan during the 1970s
A survey conducted in 1975, as part of the World Fertility Survey programme, provided evidence that fertility began to decline in Pakistan during the early 1970s. Because of the low level of contraceptive use recorded in that survey, the fertility decline was attributed to delayed marriage. However, a second and similar survey conducted approximately 5 years later showed almost exactly the same pattern of very recent decline, and indeed a reducti…
Blacks in the coronary artery surgery study (Cass)
For patients enrolled in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS), surgery was recommended for 46.5 per cent of Blacks and 59.4 per cent of Whites, despite similar clinical and angiographic characteristics. Of those recommended, 80.5 per cent of Blacks and 90.4 per cent of Whites had bypass surgery. These differences were most apparent for Black laborers. Overall, only 38.0 per cent of Blacks had coronary artery bypass surgery, whereas 58.4 per c…
Adapting Fertility Exposure Analysis to the Study of Fertility Change
Fertility exposure analysis was developed recently by Hobcraft and Little in order to evaluate the relative importance of the various proximate determinants upon levels of current fertility. In the present paper we extend the analysis to the study of changes in fertility between two cross-sectional surveys. We show how to express fertility change as a product of terms which represent changes in the proximate determinants. The model of change is a…
Measuring change and continuity in parity distributions
Procedures are developed to allocate the change in mean fertility to the change in specific parities or groups of parities. One procedure uses the proportion at each parity and another uses parity progression ratios. Both are based on the delta method for approximating change in a function of several variables. Drawing on an analogy to survival in a life table, the relational logit model is applied to parity progression. This method allows severa…
Sociology (29 works) · Demography (22 works) · Population (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Mathematics (14 works) · Demography (12 works) · Statistics (11 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Fertility (8 works)