Introduction to Demographic Analysis

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Principles and Methods

ISBN:	1468423754
ISBN 13:	9781468423754
Autor:	Wunsch, G
Verlag:	Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang:	xiv, 274 S.
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.02.2012
Auflage:	1/2012
Produktform:	Kartoniert
Einband:	Kartoniert

Inhaltsangabe1 Basic Principles of Cohort Analysis.- 1.1. Fundamental Concepts.- 1.1.1. Event-Origin; Cohort.- 1.1.2. Bounds.- 1.1.3. Time References.- 1.1.4. Lexis Diagram.- 1.1.5. Durations.- 1.1.6. Related Problems.- 1.1.7. Examples.- 1.1.7.1. Lexis Diagram.- 1.1.7.2. Types of Ages.- 1.2. Basic Principles in the Absence of Disturbances.- 1.2.1. Renewable Events.- 1.2.1.1. Introduction.- 1.2.1.2. Average Intensity and Average Duration.- 1.2.1.3. Reduced Events.- 1.2.2. Nonrenewable Events.- 1.2.2.1. Introduction.- 1.2.2.2. Average Intensity.- 1.2.2.3. Average Duration.- 1.2.3. Other Characteristics.- 1.2.4. Probability of Attrition.- 1.2.5. Attrition Table.- 1.2.6. Probabilities between Completed Durations.- 1.2.7. Exposure Rates.- 1.2.8. Relations between Exposure Rates and Attrition Probabilities.- 1.2.9. Final Comments.- 1.2.10. Examples.- 1.2.10.1. A Cohort without Disturbances.- 1.2.10.2. Relations between Rates and Probabilities.- 1.3. Basic Principles in the Presence of Disturbances.- 1.3.1. Types of Demographic Processes.- 1.3.2. Absence of Population Exclusion.- 1.3.2.1. Renewable Events.- 1.3.2.2. Nonrenewable Events.- 1.3.2.3. Use of Census-Type Data.- 1.3.3. Phenomena Excluding Population from Observation.- 1.3.4. Final Comments.- 1.3.5. Examples.- 1.3.5.1. Attrition Probabilities.- 1.3.5.2. Exposure Rates.- 1.3.5.3. Reduced Events.- 1.3.5.4. Comparison of Results.- 1.4. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 2 Basic Principles of Period Analysis.- 2.1. The Double Purpose of Period Analysis.- 2.1.1. Population Structures.- 2.1.2. Standardization and Translation.- 2.2. The Standardization Approach and the Problem of Summary Indexes.- 2.2.1. Direct Standardization.- 2.2.2. Frequency Averaging.- 2.2.3. Principal Components Analysis.- 2.2.4. Crude Rates; Indirect Standardization.- 2.2.5. Double Standardization Techniques.- 2.3. The Translation Approach.- 2.3.1. The Fictitious Cohort Method.- 2.3.2. Distributional Distortion and Translation Models.- 2.3.3. The Identification Problem.- 2.4. Population Structures and Movement.- 2.4.1. Generalized Period Frequencies.- 2.4.2. Period Frequencies, Rates, and Reduced Events.- 2.5. Examples.- 2.5.1. Types of Rates.- 2.5.2. The Problem of Summary Indexes.- 2.5.3. Direct Standardization.- 2.5.4. Indirect Standardization.- 2.5.5. Distributional Distortion.- 2.5.6. The Population Pyramid.- 2.6. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 3 The Analysis of Mortality.- 3.1. Infant Mortality.- 3.1.1. The Infant Mortality „Rate“.- 3.1.2. Endogenous and Exogenous Infant Mortality.- 3.1.3. Examples.- 3.1.3.1. Types of Infant Mortality „Rates“.- 3.1.3.2. Endogenous and Exogenous Infant Mortality.- 3.2. Period Measures of Mortality.- 3.2.1. The Standardization Approach.- 3.2.1.1. Crude Death „Rate“.- 3.2.1.2. Age-Sex-Specific Period Frequencies or Rates.- 3.2.1.3. Death Rates by Age Groups.- 3.2.1.4. Standardized Death Rates.- 3.2.1.5. Examples.- 3.2.2. The Translation Approach: The Period Life Table.- 3.2.2.1. The Life-Table Functions.- 3.2.2.2. Life-Table Functions for the Last Age Interval.- 3.2.2.3. Mortality by Cause of Death.- 3.2.2.4. Abridged Life Tables.- 3.2.2.5. Model Life Tables.- 3.2.2.6. Examples.- 3.3. Some Comments on Cohort Measures of Mortality.- 3.4. References and Supplementary Bibliography.- 4 The Analysis of Nuptiality.- 4.1. Analysis Based on Statistics of Population Change.- 4.1.1. Period Analysis.- 4.1.1.1. Standardization.- 4.1.1.2. Translation.- 4.1.2. Cohort Analysis.- 4.1.2.1. FirstMarriage.- 4.1.2.2. Marriage Dissolution and Remarriage.- 4.1.3. Examples.- 4.1.3.1. The Period First Marriage Table.- 4.1.3.2. Period Reduced First Marriages.- 4.1.3.3. Average Number of Divorces per Couple.- 4.2. Analysis Based on Census-Type Data.- 4.2.1. Use of Retrospective Questions.- 4.2.2. Use of Population Structures by Marital Status.- 4.2.2.1. Proportions of Never-Married Persons.- 4.2.2.2. Proportions of Ever-Married Persons.- 4.2.3. Example.- 4.3. The „Marriage Market“ Pro

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This 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.