the second RLMSE-HSE Users conference

just arrived:

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the second RLMSE-HSE Users conference under the umbrella of Higher School of Economics, Moscow. We invite all scholars interested in meeting other RLMS users, discussing an array of issues related to the present and future dimensions of the RLMS, and any related issue, to submit abstracts and attend this meeting.
The attached document provides more detailed information on the meeting. Please share this document with interested colleagues in case we don't have their email addresses.
Sincerely yours,
Polina Kozyreva, Barry Popkin, Mikhail Kosolapov

Gender Relations and Birth Control in the Age of the Pill

you may wish to see some photos from the event
plenty of Jena and too few of the fellow participants

estimating GAR from RLMS

Unfortunately, I do not have access to RLMS forum to discuss some appearing but probably elementary issues.
It might not exist ;(
Here are 2 pix, with differently counted denominator.


However, SPSS report incorrect denominator. Why? Correct denominator moves estimates below reported line, but a shape (trend) remains somewhat similar.

pdf or what?

Have found an interesting thing, in RLMS questionaries for rounds 1 and 4 the search in (pd)file does not work, albeit it works in 2 and 3.
What does it mean?
Different program to convert word2pdf? Supposedly, they used word in 1992.
Unfortunately, the very first round does not have an abortion question. The next three has but with condition since our last meeting, which makes a denominator (women-years) less clear.

RLMS data sets and dox

• The main source now is HSE web site, which has an RLMS page (since wave 5).
• Previous location had been North Carolina
• waves 1-4 (questionnaires, data are not easily available, read here)

Correct reference = Source: “Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey, RLMS-HSE”, conducted by the National Research University Higher School of Economics and ZAO “Demoscope” together with Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Institute of Sociology RAS.

see links to more various data, including UNICEF MICS
+ more from Stephania Lovo

Abstracts of the First International Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE User Conference

Abstracts of the First International Russia's Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE User Conference are available in the HSE web site (in one pdfile), click here, the conference program is here (also pdf), and info with links here.
Some guys told that the conference was not the first one, however, it is its  formal title ;)
Likely, it is the first since it belongs to HSE.

Adequacy of abortion statistics in Russia

this is our presentation to this conference

the first RLMS-HSE users' conference

May 17-18, Moscow

left to right: B. Popkin, P. Kozyreva, V. Radayev, M. Kosolapov
conference abstracts

more on menarche and the first coitus

Previous pix are here and here.
Finally, the results with weighted cases. RLMS provides weights as one of the variables.

Menarche:

However the result is the same, median age = 13, i.e., the school's 7th degree. In the 8th degree more than a half of girls are exposed to risk of unwanted pregnancy, since few normal creatures wish a pregnancy at school.

The first sex:

Weighting moves age at the first sex one year greater, 19 rather than 18. But 48.8 per cent of girls starts their sexual life at school. If it starts than it's already late for education, imho.

In other words: the sexuality education must begin at about seventh grade, and instruction in contraception should be a greater part of it.

 

menarche becomes younger

unweighted RLMS data
linear trend: y = -0,0137x + 13,528; R² = 0,53362