The volumes retrace the conceptual development of the primary tools used in population science. Five titles have been planned thus far: the major demographic ...

The book deals with: demographic data, standardization and decomposition, cohort/per- iod, mortality, marriage, marital status and relationships, fertility, ...

Demography is the scientific study of human populations—their size, their composition, and how they change through births, deaths, and the movement by people ...

29 янв. 2001 г. · This paper sketches some guidelines for teaching the fundamentals of demography, and gives several illustrations of their application to the ...

This book has its origins in lectures prepared while teaching the course Principles of. Population Analysis (PPA) in the Demography Program of the Australian ...

This book provides a solid introduction to all the hallmark subjects, methodologies, and debates covered in standard courses on population.

Three fundamental aspects are observed: The birth rate. (fertility), the death rate (mortality), and emigration and immigration (migration). Demography does not ...

Teaching the fundamentals of demography: A model- based approach to family and fertility. Genus, 58, 73–90. See Ch.12 above. Burch, T. K. (2001b). Teaching ...

Manual X has its origins in the first task of the Com- mittee on Population and Demography, but it has grown to include the presentation of the methodological.

Introduction. 1.1. Background: theory in demography. The task of demography, as of any science, is to describe and explain a part of reality, to understand ...