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Essential demographic methods
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ISBN: 0674369769 0674369750 9780674369757 9780674045576 0674045572 9780674369764 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Essential Demographic Methods brings to readers the full range of ideas and skills of demographic analysis that lie at the core of social sciences and public health. Classroom tested over many years, filled with fresh data and examples, this approachable text is tailored to the needs of beginners, advanced students, and researchers alike. An award-winning teacher and eminent demographer, Kenneth Wachter uses themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to convey the meaning of concepts such as exponential growth, cohorts and periods, lifetables, population projection, proportional hazards, parity, marity, migration flows, and stable populations. The presentation is carefully paced and accessible to readers with knowledge of high-school algebra. Each chapter contains original problem sets and worked examples. From the most basic concepts and measures to developments in spatial demography and hazard modeling at the research frontier, Essential Demographic Methods brings out the wider appeal of demography in its connections across the sciences and humanities. It is a lively, compact guide for understanding quantitative population analysis in the social and biological world.

World population Prospects
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ISBN: 1429456078 9781429456074 9211514096 9789211514094 9789211514063 9211514061 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Publications


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World population Prospects: Vol. 1: Comprehensive Tables
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ISBN: 1423778472 9781423778479 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Publications


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World population prospects
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ISBN: 1417576960 9781417576968 Year: 2004 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations


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Demographics of the U.S. : trends and projections
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ISBN: 1461911206 1937737004 1937737160 9781461911203 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist Publications, Inc.,

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Details the socioeconomic trends of the last half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the 21st. It includes comprehensive coverage of historical statistics, including single-year data on many topics such as school enrollment, SAT scores, hospital admissions, employment status of men and women, living arrangements of children, marital status, and geographic mobility.


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Structural Changes in Population and Impact on Passenger Transport : Report of the Eighty-Eighth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 13-14 June 1991
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ISBN: 9789282105344 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Current changes in the structure of population, whether they relate to ageing or the radical modification of social practices, are of the utmost importance. Without dynamic new measures in the sphere of public transport, the private car will continue to be used more and more and what already seem to be insurmountable problems will be aggravated. Round Table 88 seeks to determine the scale of these changes before analysing the various ways in which public transport can respond.

From red to gray : the "third transition" of aging populations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
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ISBN: 0821371290 9786610940493 1280940492 0821371304 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington D.C. : World Bank,

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Conventional wisdom holds that aging populations are unfavorable for economic growth because of their potential impacts on labor supply, productivity, and savings. When this is coupled with the increased spending pressures because of pension requirements and health care, aging societies are likely to face serious fiscal problems. This report addresses these concerns in the unique context of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union where many countries are aging rapidly without the economic resources and institutional capacity of other aging societies in Western Europe and Japan.


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World Urbanization Prospects, the 2014 Revision : Highlights
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ISBN: 9210568095 9789210568098 9789211515176 9789211231953 9211515173 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : United Nations,

Statistical Demography and Forecasting
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ISBN: 1280608110 9786610608119 0387283927 0387235302 0387225382 9780387235301 9780387225388 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot be solved without understanding the nature of population forecasts and their uncertainty. Similarly, the accuracy of population estimates directly affects both the distributions of formula-based government allocations to sub-national units and the apportionment of political representation. The book develops the statistical foundation for addressing such issues. Areas covered include classical mathematical demography, event history methods, multi-state methods, stochastic population forecasting, sampling and census coverage, and decision theory. The methods are illustrated with empirical applications from Europe and the U.S. For statisticians the book provides a unique introduction to demographic problems in a familiar language. For demographers, actuaries, epidemiologists, and professionals in related fields, the book presents a unified statistical outlook on both classical methods of demography and recent developments. To facilitate its classroom use, exercises are included. Over half of the book is readily accessible to undergraduates, but more maturity may be required to benefit fully from the complete text. Knowledge of differential and integral calculus, matrix algebra, basic probability theory, and regression analysis is assumed. Juha M. Alho is Professor of Statistics, University of Joensuu, Finland, and Bruce D. Spencer is Professor of Statistics and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Both have contributed extensively to statistical demography and served in advisory roles and as statistical consultants in the field.

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