Introduction to Demographic Analysis
Principles and Methods
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XIV, 274 pages
978-1-4684-2375-4 (ISBN)
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This book is the result of several years of experience in teaching principles and methods of demographic analysis at the Department of Demography of the University of Louvain. Chapters 1 and 2 deal with the basic principles and methods involved in the two approaches demographers usually take, i.e., cohort and period analysis. Chapters 3-6 are devoted to applying these principles and methods to the particular phenomena with which the demog rapher is especially concerned: mortality, nuptiality, natality, and spatial mobility. In order to maintain coherence, examples have been placed at the end of each major section instead of being dispersed throughout the text. This should enable the reader to grasp both the theory and the example as a whole, rather than envisaging the theory as a particular reply to a specific problem. Finally, each chapter ends with a list of references, to which is added a selection of major books and articles in population analysis drawn mainly from the American, British, and French demographic literature.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XIV, 274 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-2375-4 (9781468423754)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-2373-0
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03/1978
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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Content
1 Basic Principles of Cohort Analysis.- 1.1. Fundamental Concepts.- 1.2. Basic Principles in the Absence of Disturbances.- 1.3. Basic Principles in the Presence of Disturbances.- 1.4. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 2 Basic Principles of Period Analysis.- 2.1. The Double Purpose of Period Analysis.- 2.2. The Standardization Approach and the Problem of Summary Indexes.- 2.3. The Translation Approach.- 2.4. Population Structures and Movement.- 2.5. Examples.- 2.6. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 3 The Analysis of Mortality.- 3.1. Infant Mortality.- 3.2. Period Measures of Mortality.- 3.3. Some Comments on Cohort Measures of Mortality.- 3.4. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 4 The Analysis of Nuptiality.- 4.1. Analysis Based on Statistics of Population Change.- 4.2. Analysis Based on Census-Type Data.- 4.3. The "Marriage Market" Problem.- 4.4. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 5 The Analysis of Natality.- 5.1. Crude Measures of Natality.- 5.2. Age-Specific Fertility.- 5.3. Marriage-Duration-SpecificFertility.- 5.4. Birth-Interval-Specific Fertility.- 5.5. Measures of Natural Fertility and Contraceptive Effectiveness.- 5.6. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 6 The Analysis of Migration.- 6.1. Time and Space in Migration Analysis.- 6.2. Spatial Demographic Accounting.- 6.3. Direct Estimation of Migration.- 6.4. Indirect Estimation of Migration.- 6.5. Intensity of Migration.- 6.6. Spatial Orientation of Migration.- 6.7. Efficiency of Migration.- 6.8. Examples.- 6.9. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- Append.- Table A.1. Set of Coefficients for Ledermann's Model Life Tables (BothSexes).- Table A.2. Schedules of Divorce by Duration of Marriage 269.- Table A.3. Standard Set of Ratios of Probabilities of Survivalof Total Population (Ever-Married or Not) to Population Single at ExactAges.- Table A.4. Standard Marital Fertility Schedule of Hutterite Women (1921-1930).- Table A.5. Standard Schedule of Births by Duration of Marriage.- Table A.6. Standard Fertility Schedules by Birth Interval (for Low Fertility LF and High Fertility HF Populations).