Measuring population aging as a function
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Tim Futing Liao
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Article
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1996
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Springer US
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English
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Researchers often describe population aging with measures such as proportion of population under 15 years of age, proportion of population 65 years and over, the aged-child ratio (a ratio of the first two measures), median age, and mean age. Investigators of cross-cultural gerontology, too, use such