Finding and using rural aging data: an international perspective.

This article reports on a workshop in which participants identified sources of data on rural aging. Such sources are typically part of larger data collection efforts or special aging studies with large rural components. Finding and using data on rural aging are not only two different processes but they also face somewhat different obstacles and the solutions are likewise different.

Changing patterns of extramarital conceptions in the Czech Republic, 1960-93.

Patterns of reproduction associated with extramarital conception are examined using data on non-marital births, marital births occurring during less than 8 months after marriage, and spontaneous and induced abortions experienced by unmarried women. Trends in the incidence and demographic outcomes of conceptions resulting from extramarital coitus are analysed by means of age-specific probabilities of becoming pregnant outside marriage; and of terminating such a pregnancy by abortion, by legitimating it through marriage before confinement, or by having a baby while remaining unmarried. Substantial increases in the proportion of extramaritally conceived pregnancies leading to non-marital births are detected for the period since the late 1980s, and ascribed mainly to rising levels of unmarried cohabitation.

[Selective survey of lifestyle habits within families].

Efforts to influence favourably the health status of our population lead to ever more detailed analyses of the life style and influence of the family on the habits of the young generation. The authors made two pilot studies. In the first one they focused attention on dietary habits and in the second one on the leisure time, incl.