Demographic Methods - Hardcover

Hinde, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340718919 ISBN 13: 9780340718919

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Demography is the study of population structure and change. As modern society becomes ever more complex, it becomes increasingly important to be able to measure accurately all aspects of change in the population, and estimate what its future size and composition might be. This book describes and explains the methods demographers use to analyse population data.br >br >Looking at mortality and fertility, population dynamics and population projection, nuptiality and migration, Hinde demonstrates that most demographic methods are applications of certain fundamental principles. This book covers material taught in introductory courses in population analysis, while also including more advanced topics such as parity progression ratios, survival analysis and birth interval analysis. Most chapters are followed by a range of exercises, and a comprehensive set of solutions to these exercises is provided at the end of the book. Quattro and Excel spreadsheet files containing data for all the numerical exercises, plus some additional files of data from recent census and surveys, are available via the Internet.

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Review

"This is the best book on demographic analysis that I have read in the least ten years. It is comprehensive, readable, and jargon-free."--Augustine Kposowa, University of California, Riverside

"There has been a need for a textbook like this on demographic methods for many years." --Thomas W. Pullum, University of Texas, Austin

About the Author

Hinde-University of Southampton

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340718919
• ISBN 13: 9780340718919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320