Demography category: 971 books
Disciplining Statistics
Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation and use of statistical knowledge. Through a comparison of vital statistics and demography, Schweber describes...
by Sarah Harper
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life is lived; the person's access...
by Klára Hulíková Tesárková, Olga Kurtinová
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram. It describes this vital tool, which helps demographers visualize data, and examines its various forms through a specially designed example. As a result,...
Analysing China's Population
Social Change in a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Based on China’s recently released 2010 population census data, this edited volume analyses the most recent demographic trends in China, in the context of significant social and economic upheavals. The editor and the expert contributors describe the main features of China’s demography, and focus...
Demography and Degeneration
Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that "like tends to...
Population and Society
An Introduction to Demography
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This comprehensive yet accessible textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students taking their first course in demography. Clearly explaining technical demographic issues without using extensive mathematics, Population and Society is sociologically oriented, but incorporates...
Demography at the Edge
Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations. With the emphasis on human populations as dynamic, adaptive,...
Demography of Russia
From the Past to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book examines the demographic development of Russia from the late Russian Empire to the contemporary Russian Federation, and includes discussions of marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, and inter-regional migration. In this pioneering study, the authors present the first English-language...
Israel's Destiny
Fertility and Mortality in a Divided Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
For over a hundred years, demography has been at the heart of the Zionist project, reflected in the goal of creating and maintaining a Jewish majority in Israel and in ensuring the physical continuation of the Jewish people. Demography continues to be an essential issue in the current struggle between...
by Richard K. Thomas, Louis G. Pol
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This is a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1992. The authors convey the general principles that underlie this applied subdiscipline and demonstrate how the merging of demography and health care impacts on the planning processes of a range of health care organizations.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related expenditure, cause-specific mortality, and maternal health...
by S.S. Halli, K.V. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Although I feel honored to write a foreword for this important book, it is a task that I approach with some trepidation. The topics covered in the book summarize the current state of the art in technical demography. However, my knowledge and expertise with respect to technical demography are limited...
Understanding Family Change and Variation
Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of gender in demography, addressing the many different influences of gender that arise from or influence demographic processes. It collects in one volume the key issues and perspectives in this area, whereby demography is broadly defined....