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The Use of Multi-State Life Tables in Estimating Places for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists A Technical Paper (1997) / Chapter Skim
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... These rates are based on actual SDR growth rates for these workforces between 1980 and 1989. Observed average retirement and field migration rates for the three biennial periods covering 1973-1979 and the observed average age distribution of new entrants for the two biennial periods covering 1975-1979 were used as mode]
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... The discrepancy reflects, in part, a difference between the actual and forecast workforce growth rates. The mode!
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