Formal demography
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Formal demography
（The Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis）
Plenum Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-317) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to eurrent demographie methods. It has been several years in preparation, beginning from occasional class handouts I wrote to elaborate on essential points of demographie methodology. Its growth from scattered notes to an integrated text was a natural process, if a gradual one. The eontent of the book addresses three objectives. first, I have tried to avoid demographie methods that are now dated. In some ehapters, that has meant eoncentrating on formulas most demographers recognize. In the ehap ters on life tables, it meant testing competing formulas on a variety of real and synthetie data se.ts, and dropping or relegating to footnotes those that were least accurate. Second, I have attempted to give readers a sense of the limits of different formulas and methods. I am a terse writer, however, and for the reader that means most sentences carry weight. Chapters should be read attentively, with careful regard to commentary as weIl as to formulas and examples. Finally, I have tried to make the principal methodologies of the book accessible, by offering explanations for formulas that are not obvious, by keeping examples to the forefront, and by placing relatively specialized topics in ehapter appendices.
Table of Contents
Introduction. General Data Adjustment. Standardized Rates. The Life Table I. The Life Table II. The Life Table III. Measures of Fertility. Population Projection and Projection Matrices. Migration in Population Analysis. Index.
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