Impact of the 2011 earthquake on marriages, births and the secondary sex ratio in Japan

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 830-841

  Hamamatsu, Yuri ^a   Inoue, Yosuke ^a   Watanabe, Chiho ^a   Umezaki, Masahiro ^a  

^a Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TSUNAMI;

BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84911371245     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: 14697599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932014000017     Document Type: Article

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