ISBN:
0126419558
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 819 p)
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ill., maps
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29 cm
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Methods and Materials of Demography
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Demography History
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Demography Methodology
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Demography Research
;
Demography
Abstract:
This book is a thorough update of the original Methods and Materials of Demography (1976). Every chapter is new, written exclusively for this edition. Like the original, Red Book, the Second Edition presents a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Basic Sources of Statistics; 3 Collection and Processing of Demographic Data; 4 Population Size; 5 Population Distribution-Geographic Areas; 6 Population Distribution-Classification of Residence; 7 Age and Sex Composition; 8 Racial and Ethnic Composition; 9 Marriage, Divorce, and Family Groups; 10 Educational and Economic Characteristics; 11 Population Change; 12 Mortality; 13 The Life Table; 14 Health Demography; 15 Natality-Measures Based on Vital Statistics; 16 Natality-Measures Based on Censuses and Surveys; 17 Reproductivity
Description / Table of Contents:
18 International Migration19 Internal Migration and Short-Distance Mobility; 20 Population Estimates; 21 Population Projections; 22 Some Methods of Estimation for Statistically Underdeveloped Areas; APPENDIX A Reference Tables for Constructing an Abridged Life Table by the Reed-Merrell Method; APPENDIX B Model Life Tables and Stable Population Tables; APPENDIX C Selected General Methods; APPENDIX D Geographic Information Systems; Glossary; A Demography Time Line; Author Biographies; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
A substantially revised, updated, and expanded edition of: The methods and materials of demography / Henry S. Shryock, Jacob S. Siegel, and associates. Condensed ed. / by Edward G. Stockwell. New York : Academic Press, c1976
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Includes bibliographical references and indexrd
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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