1st Edition
From Birth to Death A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies
By William Petersen
Copyright 2000
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
197 Pages
by
Routledge
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From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the Bureau of the Census. It describes the errors and other flaws typically found in such data. Petersen sets out the fundamentals of demography and reviews the current proposal to use sampling in the census. He then reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex structure... Read more
1: Population: The Fundamentals; 2: Age and Sex; 3: Population Composition; 4: From Fecundity to Fertility; 5: Mortality; 6: Health; 7: Prehistoric and Primitive Populations; 8: Population Theories; 9: Forecasts and Projections; 10: State Control of Population; 11: Conclusions
Biography
William Petersen
