DHS in the News

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THE ECONOMIST

...The authors use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), which contain a lot of detail about family structure and household assets. DHS data from 60 developing countries enable them to divide households into five income groups and to show that in every continent, the "youth-dependency ratio" (the number of children under 15 compared with the working-age population) is lowest in the richest group, next lowest in the next-richest group and so on...

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THE ECONOMIST

...The authors use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), which contain a lot of detail about family structure and household assets. DHS data from 60 developing countries enable them to divide households into five income groups and to show that in every continent, the "youth-dependency ratio" (the number of children under 15 compared with the working-age population) is lowest in the richest group, next lowest in the next-richest group and so on...

URL to article: http://www.economist.com/node/21560247