The Methods and Materials of Demography

✍ Scribed by Henry S. Shryock and JacoB.S. Siegel (Auth.)

Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 1976
Tongue: English
Leaves: 566
Edition: Condensed ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Like the original two-volume work, this work attempts to present a systematic and comprehensive exposition, with illustrations, of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. The book is concerned with how data on population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the significant aspects of the composition and dynamics of populations. It sets forth the sources, limitations, underlying definitions, and bases of classification, as well as the techniques and methods that have been developed for summarizing and analyzing the data

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Inside Front Cover, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages vii-ix
CHAPTER 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-9
CHAPTER 2 - Basic Sources of Statistics, Pages 11-28
CHAPTER 3 - Collection and Processing of Demographic Data, Pages 29-47
CHAPTER 4 - Population Size, Pages 49-61
CHAPTER 5 - Population Distribution Geographic Areas, Pages 63-82
CHAPTER 6 - Population Distribution—Classification of Residence, Pages 83-104
CHAPTER 7 - Sex Composition, Pages 105-111
CHAPTER 8 - Age Composition, Pages 113-144
CHAPTER 9 - Racial and Ethnic Composition, Pages 145-160
CHAPTER 10 - Marital Characteristics and Family Groups, Pages 161-175
CHAPTER 11 - Educational Characteristics, Pages 177-189
CHAPTER 12 - Economic Characteristics, Pages 191-210
CHAPTER 13 - Population Change, Pages 211-219
CHAPTER 14 - Mortality, Pages 221-248
CHAPTER 15 - The Life Table, Pages 249-271
CHAPTER 16 - Natality: Measures Based on Vital Statistics, Pages 273-296
CHAPTER 17 - Natality: Measures Based on Censuses and Surveys, Pages 297-312
CHAPTER 18 - Reproductivity, Pages 313-332
CHAPTER 19 - Marriage and Divorce, Pages 333-348
CHAPTER 20 - International Migration, Pages 349-371
CHAPTER 21 - Internal Migration and Short-Distance Mobility, Pages 373-405
CHAPTER 22 - Population Estimates, Pages 407-437
CHAPTER 23 - Population Projections, Pages 439-482
CHAPTER 24 - Some Methods of Estimation for Statistically Underdeveloped Areas, Pages 483-507
APPENDIX A - Reference Tables for Constructing an Abridged Life Table by the Reed-Merrell Method, Pages 511,513-520
APPENDIX B - Selected “West” Model Life Tables and Stable Population Tables, and Related Reference Tables, Pages 521,523-530
APPENDIX C - Selected General Methods, Pages 531-559
Author Index, Pages 561-564
Subject Index, Pages 565-577

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