Demography category: 971 books
Microsimulation and Population Dynamics
An Introduction to Modgen 12
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book is a practical, step-by-step introduction to microsimulation in demography. It shows how to use Modgen, a powerful and free microsimulation platform built by Statistics Canada. The authors' hands-on explanation of model development will help readers make their own. The book teaches how to...
The Body Populace
Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army...
World Population
Past, Present, & Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously. The authors from the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid (Spain), professors Julio A Gonzalo, Manuel Alfonseca,...
The Lineaments of Population Policy in India
Women and Family Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
India is the first country in the world to have an official programme for family planning that commenced in 1952. It has also seen a strong women’s movement to assert reproductive and contraceptive rights. This book brings to the fore several contestations and negotiations between public policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
The essays in this book not only examine the variety of atheist expression and experience in the Western context, they also explore how local, national and international settings may contribute to the shaping of atheist identities. By addressing identity at these different levels, the book explores...
In Sickness and In Health
Disease and Disability in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central to demographic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks...
by Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book introduces and applies the stochastic modeling techniques and the first exit time theory in demography through describing the theory related to the health state of a population and the introduced health state function. The book provides the derivation and classification of the human development...
Population in History
Essays in Historical Demography, Volume II: Europe and United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This large-scale comparative endeavor, complete in two volumes, reflects increasing concern with the population factor in economic and social change worldwide. Demographers, on their side, have been focusing on history. In response to this, Population in History represents the work of two practitioners...
Consumer Demographics and Behaviour
Markets are People
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
*This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products. It is also a book for teachers and students of consumer behaviour to grasp the importance...
Prison Tattoos
A Study of Russian Inmates in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This Brief studies the important role that tattoos play in prison culture, and examines its unique manifestation among minority inmates. This work aims to provide a better understanding of prison group culture, particularly among social marginal groups, through the lens of Russian immigrants in Israeli...
Children for Families or Families for Children
The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and internationally? How do the types of adoptions-domestic...
by Samsik Lee, Han Gon Kim
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book explores how low fertility levels could fundamentally change a country's population and society. It analyzes the profound effects below average birthrates have on virtually all aspects of society, from the economy to religion, from marriage to gender roles. An introduction written by Dudley...
Population and Family in the Low Countries 1995
Selected Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
EDITORS Hans V AN DEN BREKEL * and Fred DEVEN** * NIDI, P. O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands ** CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium The series "Population and Family in the Low Countries" (POPFAM), established in 1976, aims to introduce selected issues of demographic...