ISBN:
9780127656601
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (2857 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Demography : A Treatise in Population
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Ana
Description / Table of Contents:
front cover; Volume I; copyright; Copyright Volume I; table of contents; Contents Volume I; Contents of Volumes II, III and IV; front matter; Contributors Volume I; General Introduction; body; SECTION I POPULATION DYNAMICS Introduction to Volume I; PART I POPULATION GROWTH; CHAPTER 1 Populations and Individuals; I. Number and Composition; II. Size, Composition, and Dynamics: State and Change; CHAPTER 2 Population: Replacement and Change; I. Exogenous Replacement: Entries and Exits by Migration; II. Endogenous Replacement: Births, Deaths; CHAPTER 3 Population Increase
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I. Total Population IncreaseII. Natural and Migratory Increase; CHAPTER 4 Population Dynamics: Movement and Structure; I. The Age-Sex Structure; II. Crude Rates and Age-Specific Rates; III. The Relationship between Age-specific Rates, Age Structure, and Population Growth; PART II THE LONGITUDINAL APPROACH Description of Demographic Processes in a Birth Cohort; CHAPTER 5 Variation Through Time of Age-Specific Rates; CHAPTER 6 From Situating Events in Time to the Lexis Diagram and the Computing of Rates; I. Time, Age, Cohort; II. The Lexis Diagram
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III. Elements for Computing a Rate, According to the Classification Mode of EventsCHAPTER 7 Frequency Surfaces and Isofrequency Lines; I. Attempts at Three-Dimensional Representation; II. Contour Lines; CHAPTER 8 Rates, Frequencies, and Probabilities; I. Types of Events and Population States; II. Repeatable Events: Rates and Frequencies; III. Nonrepeatable Events, Probabilities, and Occurrence/Exposure Rates; IV. Single and Multiple Decrement; V. The Force of Attrition; CHAPTER 9 Competing Risks, Independence, and Continuity; I. The Condition of Independence; II. The Condition of Continuity
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CHAPTER 10 The Longitudinal ApproachI. Individual and Cohort Data; II. The Longitudinal Approach: Descriptive Measures; CHAPTER 11 Cohort Life Table; I. Calculating a Cohort's Probabilities of Dying; II. Construction and Main Functions of the Table; III. From the Discrete to the Continuous: Entering the Table Via the Force of Mortality; IV. The Oldest-Ages Problem and Table Closure; V. The Special Case of Infant Mortality; CHAPTER 12 Cohort Analysis of Fertility; I. Analyzing Cohort Fertility from Retrospective Data; II. Cohort Fertility from Vital Registration Data
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III. Fertility by Marriage CohortsIV. Fertility by Parity Cohorts; V. Fertility by Age, Marriage Duration, and Birth Interval; CHAPTER 13 Cohort Approach to External Migration Flows; I. The Data Constraint; II. Age-Specific Inflow and Outflow Rate; III. Estimating Net Migration: A Robust Approach Despite Its Limits; PART III PERIOD ANALYSIS REVISITED The Hypothetical Cohort and its Relations with Actual Birth Cohorts; CHAPTER 14 The Hypothetical Cohort as a Tool for Demographic Analysis; I. The Period Life Table; II. Hypothetical Intensity and Tempo of Fertility; III. External Migrations
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CHAPTER 15 Confounding Variables, Standardization, and the Problem of Summary Indices
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