Introduction to Demographic Analysis: Principles and MethodsThis book is the result of several years of experience in teaching principles and methods of demographic analysis at the Department of Demography of the University of Louvain. Chapters 1 and 2 deal with the basic principles and methods involved in the two approaches demographers usually take, i.e., cohort and period analysis. Chapters 3-6 are devoted to applying these principles and methods to the particular phenomena with which the demog rapher is especially concerned: mortality, nuptiality, natality, and spatial mobility. In order to maintain coherence, examples have been placed at the end of each major section instead of being dispersed throughout the text. This should enable the reader to grasp both the theory and the example as a whole, rather than envisaging the theory as a particular reply to a specific problem. Finally, each chapter ends with a list of references, to which is added a selection of major books and articles in population analysis drawn mainly from the American, British, and French demographic literature. |
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age at marriage age groups age-specific approximation arithmetic mean attrition probabilities average number birth intervals birth order birth-cohort calendar causes of death census completed age completed durations computed considered contraceptive death rate decrement tables demographic derived dividing the number duration of marriage equal estimate event-origin exact ages exact ages x exact durations example fecundability females fertility rates Flemish region formula in-migrants indexes intensity and tempo intercensal period life-table males marriage-cohort married measures migration flows migration rates N₁ nonrenewable events number of births number of children number of deaths number of events number of migrations number of person-years number of persons nuptiality observed obtained out-migrants parity progression ratios period analysis population change population numbers population structures probability of dying probability of survival proportion reduced events reduced first marriages region relation represents the number residence spatial spinsters standard stillbirths total number women