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In contrast to a typical general text in demography, which is concerned with demographic principles, trends, problems, and theories, Applied Demography explores the practical issues with which demographers working for government agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and businesses deal. It emphasizes the applications of applied demography in a variety of related disciplines, such as geography, economics, gerontology, public policy, law, sociology, public administration, and business management. The data of these disciplines are taken into account, as are the methods of statistics and computer sciences. The book aims to inform the student of the wide range of applications of demography, including not only narrowly "demographic" situations but also "nondemographic" situations, such as manufacturing processes and the dynamics of organizations as a population. ... Read more

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another perfect reference
Yes, another perfect reference on demography after the well-known reference "The Methods and Materials of Demography" by the same author. ... Read more

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The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs? This volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native population - their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population. ... Read more

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Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field.Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength.Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field. ... Read more

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Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour. The book takes a micro-demographic (agent-based) perspective and illustrates the potentialities of computer simulation as an aid in theory building. The chapters of the book, written by leading experts either in demography or in agent-based modelling, address several key questions. Why do we need agent-based computational demography? How can ABCD be applied to the study of migrations, family demography, and historical demography? What are the peculiarities of agent-based models as applied to the demography of human populations? ABCD is of interest to all scientists interested in studying demographic behaviour, as well as to computer scientists and modellers who are looking for a promising field of application. ... Read more

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With the radical transformation of family structure in most Western nations and its important social and economic implications, studies in family demographics have increased dramatically in recent years. The second volume in a new series undertaken in conjunction with the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, this collection documents recent methodological developments in the demographic analysis of families, households, and kin groups, including the analysis of the family life cycle and the construction of multistate life tables and simulation models. The volume also addresses the projection of the number and composition of families and households, a topic of great practical importance, and it proposes a number of refinements and alternatives to the simple conventional approaches now taken. ... Read more

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This monograph is the first attempt in Bulgarian historiography (and still one of the very few endeavors in Europe) to investigate the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Eastern Europe. The work reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family in Bulgaria between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic considerations. It sets the laws regarding family welfare in their framework of a distinctively cultural, historical and political discourse to follow the motives behind the legislative initiatives. ... Read more

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Developed specifically as a professional guide and reference, this unique handbook demystifies demographic analysis for the business person and shows how its principles may be profitably applied in any type of corporate or institutional setting. ... Read more

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Demography in Ecotoxicology focuses on the interface between toxicology, life history and demographic theory. This comprehensive book examines the different ways of adequately assessing the potential impact of toxic stress on populations and discusses how to obtain an insight into the underlying physiological and genetic mechanisms. The theory is illustrated with empiricial observations on a number of species and organisational levels and the book incorporates:

• case studies;
• real data;
• life history models;
• methodologies; and,
• recommendations for risk assessment

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This useful reference presents a wealth of statistics on the ethnography of Vietnam, focusing primarily on the last few decades. It analyzes the ethnic compositio of the population, indetifying each of the 54 ethnic groups and sub-groups by name, geographical distribution, and linguistic origin. Geographic distribution statistics are provided for each ethnic group, showing the process of migration and redistribution. Other factors covered are population structure, population gowth, and the relationship between population and socioeconomic development.

The analysis is based on population censuses and annual statistics from both central and local government offices as well as data from the field. The systematic presentation of demographic information in easy-to-read tables, with accompanying explanation and discussion of national population policies, will be invaluable to policy makers, consultants, and researchers requiring detailed and comprehensive information on the multi-ethnic population of Vietnam. ... Read more

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In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as we know them. Their timely analysis, supported by a unified theoretical framework and empirical findings, demonstrates how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain itself on its present scale.

In much of the developed world, the proportion of the population aged 60 and over is expected to rise dramatically over the coming years—from 35 percent in 2000 to a projected 66 percent in 2050 in the European Union and from 27 percent to 47 percent in the United States—which may necessitate higher tax burdens and greater public debt to maintain national pension systems at current levels. Low-skill migration produces additional strains on welfare-state financing because such migrants typically receive benefits that exceed what they pay in taxes. Higher capital taxation, which could potentially be used to finance welfare benefits, is made unlikely by international tax competition brought about by globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United States, the authors draw an unconventional and provocative conclusion from these developments. They argue that the political pressure from both aging and migrant populations indirectly generates political processes that favor trimming rather than expanding the welfare state. The combined pressures of aging, migration, and globalization will shift the balance of political power and generate public support from the majority of the voting population for cutting back traditional welfare state benefits. ... Read more

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The move from large extended families towards the nuclear family already prevalent in the West is one of the most notable demographic trends of the 20th Century. In exploring this "fertility transition" this volume investigates and explains the impact that changing cultural and moral beliefs have had on fertility practice. The contributors create a global picture through a wide variety of theoretical approaches combined with highly focused empirical studies. ... Read more

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Social scientists have long relied on a wide range of tools to collect information about the social world, but as individual fields have become more specialised, researchers are trained to use a narrow range of the possible data collection methods. This book draws on a broad range of available social data collection methods to formulate a new set of data collection approaches. The new approaches described here are ideal for social science researchers who plan to collect new data about people, organisations, or social processes. Axinn and Pearce present methods designed to create a comprehensive empirical description of the subject being studied, with an emphasis on accumulating the information needed to understand what causes what with a minimum of error. In addition to providing methodological motivation and underlying principles, the book is filled with detailed instructions and concrete examples for those who wish to apply the methods to their research. ... Read more

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Mixed method Data Collection Strategies
This is an excellent resource for academic researchers involved in any kind of ethnograthic research methodolgy development; particularly in the context of emerging markets. ... Read more

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Population growth in Africa has laid the foundation for the eventual development of a prosperous region. Since the 1950s, sub-Saharan Africa has doubled its population twice over to become one of the most populous regions in the world. If sub-Saharan Africa succeeds in taking advantage of this population potential, the sub-continent could become a major player in the world economy.

A major reason sub-Saharan Africa remains poor is a high child-dependency arising from its high fertility rate combined with a low life expectancy based on both high infant mortality and high adult mortality rates. Reduced mortality and lower fertility are key requirements if sub-Saharan Africa is to enter a development trajectory that makes possible increasing per capita incomes and reductions in poverty.
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This book examines how transformations in Brazil's social, economic and political organization affect the demographic behaviour of people who live in different parts of the country and who occupy different positions in the social system. The authors review the history of unequal development and document the concentration of income and land ownership. Using data from the 1970 and 1980 censuses, they show how the Brazilian style of economic growth unequally affected different population subgroups. Mortality estimates for white and non-white people measure the consequences of racial inequality on the life chances of children. Other chapters investigate rural out-migration, the impact of Amazon colonization schemes on rural poverty, and the implications of differential rates of population growth among rich and poor households for future patterns of inequality and underemployment. The overall perspective places the concept of inequality at the centre of the study of demographic and structural change. ... Read more

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This text/reference addresses the ever-increasing challenges of documenting population demographic changes, and will serve as a bridge from introductory ecology to both applied and theoretical demography. It emphasizes the analysis of population data taken from a wide variety of organisms, including terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals found in habitats from equatorial rain forests to the arctic tundra. The book also contains computer programs that are written in BASIC and include tools for population projection, matrix analysis using both sensitivity and elasticity, individual growth and survival models, and the analysis of size-frequency distributions.

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* Includes BASIC programs for analysis of capture-recapture data, matrices, growth models, size-frequency distribution, survival models, and many others
* Contains worked examples from a wide range of animals and plants
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Still the best overview available in its field
I have a longstanding interest in demographics, both as a method in studying history and as an analysis of trends in itself. My master's thesis, in fact, made heavy use of demographic analysis as a tool in identifying migration patterns along the Red River in north Texas. That was thirty years ago and this fat anthology was one of the preparatory sources in which I immersed myself. I still go back and reread certain of the included essays when I'm engaged in a project in which demographics plays a role. Of the twenty-seven essays, seven were previously published, and several of those have become classics. Foremost among the latter, I think, are Sigismund Peller's "Births and Deaths among Europe's Ruling Families since 1500," which introduced several new analytical techniques (he was a physician, actually, not an historian, with an interest in the shifting causes of mortality), and T. H. Hollingsworth's "A Demographic Study of the British Ducal Families," which built upon Peller's methods and brought to the fore a number of previously unnoticed trends among the British elite. (Yes, I have a long interest in peerage genealogy, too.) Of the other essays, one of the most fascinating is "The Vital Revolution Reconsidered," by Karl Helleiner (a noted medievalist with a particular interest in the effects of the Black Death), which considers the abrupt shift in mortality rates throughout the western world within the few decades on either side of 1700. Two others of particular interest, especially for the 1950s and '60s, are D. E. C. Eversley's "Population, Economy, and Society," a groundbreaking consideration of the "new economic history" (new then, anyway) and how to measure population changes within that context, and Louis Chevalier's "Toward a History of Population," which lays out in detail the reasons demographic analysis is useful in the study of history and how to achieve that utility. Younger historians are generally up-to-date on the new historiographical methods and tools they learn about in grad school but they tend to ignore the older methods. Rather than taking the earlier "revolutions" for granted, today's students need to delve into the reasons why they were revolutionary. This volume is an excellent way to do that. ... Read more