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The formal demography of kinship II: Multistate models, parity, and sibship

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  • Hal Caswell

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Background: Recent kinship models focus on the age structures of kin as a function of the age of the focal individual. However, variables in addition to age have important impacts. Generalizing age-specific models to multistate models including other variables is an important and hitherto unsolved problem. Objective: The aim is to develop a multistate kinship model, classifying individuals jointly by age and other criteria (generically, “stages”). Methods: The vec-permutation method is used to create multistate projection matrices including age- and stage-dependent survival, fertility, and transitions. These matrices operate on block-structured population vectors that describe the age×stage structure of each kind of kin, at each age of a focal individual. Results: The new matrix formulation is directly comparable to, and greatly extends, the recent age-classified kinship model of Caswell (2019a). As an application, a model is derived including age and parity. It provides, for all types of kin, the joint age×parity structure, the marginal age and parity structures, and the (normalized) parity distributions, at every age of the focal individual. The age×parity distributions provide the distributions of sibship sizes of kin. As an example, the model is applied to Slovakia (1960–2014). The results show a dramatic shift in the parity distribution as the frequency of low-parity kin increased and that of high-parity kin decreased. Contribution: This model extends the formal demographic analysis of kinship to age×stage-classified models. In addition to parity, other stage classifications, including marital status, maternal age effects, and sex are now open to analysis.

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  • Hal Caswell, 2020. "The formal demography of kinship II: Multistate models, parity, and sibship," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 42(38), pages 1097-1146.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:42:y:2020:i:38
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.38
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    kinship; multistate models; parity; Slovakia; matrix models; vec-permutation matrices; sibship;
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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