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This long-awaited book presents a comprehensive, integrated and up-to-dateoverview of the major physiological and behavioral factors affecting humanreproduction. Trained as an anthropologist as well as a demographer, the authorsummarizes data from a wide range of societies, and writes with signal clarity on the interaction between biology and behavior. A unique combination of comprehensive subject matter and an integrated analytical approach makes the book ideally suited both as a graduate-level textbook and as a reference work. ... Read more

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1. Multidimensional mathematical demography: an overview
2. Multidimensional population analysis with incomplete data
3. Model schedules and multistate demographic analysis: the case of migration
4. Multistate life table methodology: a probabilist critique
5. Statistical methods for Markov-generated increment-decrement life tables with polynomial gross flow functions
6. Transition probability estimation and increment-decrement life tables: using mobility data from a census or survey
7. Generalizing the life table model to incorporate interactions between the sexes
8. Multiregional population projections by place of previous residents
9. Multiregional age-structured populations with changing rates: weak and Stochastic Ergodic theorems
10. Hi and low intensity model of mobility
11. Increment-detriment life tables and semi-Markovian processes from a sample path perspective
12. Population heterogeneity in demographic models
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This text aims to help the novice understand demographic variables and analyze their impact on specific private and public sector interests. Examples are employed to demonstrate a wide range of techniques, and the book discusses software products from the 1990 US census that may revolutionize the use of demographic data by business and government. ... Read more

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These papers represent a series of important contributions on the history of urbanization. As well as offering a clear and instructive discussion of fundamental concepts, processes, and measurement problems, the introduction summarizes findings in the latest research and proposes new topics. The papers focus on four principal areas of contemporary research on urbanization: urban networks, town-country economic links, migration, and demographic patterns. New areas of analysis, such as the study of migration flows by age, gender, or social group, and the comparative east/west approach of several of these papers will serve to broaden the international scope of research and stimulate further work in this field. ... Read more

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Demography as a discipline is now at the point where its relevance to business decision making is indisputable--and top business management knows this. People who lack an understanding of state-of-the-art demographic techniques, and who cannot adapt to new ways of thinking prompted by demography and demographers, will find themselves significantly disadvantaged in today's competitive business environment. Pol and Thomas thus provide practitioners and students alike with a concise but intensive introduction to the concepts and methods of business demography. They chronicle current demographic trends and explain their meaning for business. With numerous examples drawn from business and industry, they make clear that business demography is truly a decision-making science. ... Read more

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Gary Gerson relates the story of the Jews in the British Isles, from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day; how, from a foreign speaking minority they became part of the British scene without losing their Jewish identity. The book covers the Medieval period, as well as the return of the Jews at the time of Cromwell and goes on to describe the massive influx at the end of the 19th Century from Russia and Poland. The book pays close attention to the Jewish and British populations, their relationships and the historical significance of population changes. The survival and the future of the Jews in Great Britain are considered in this clear and understandable account for the general reader whilst adequate notes and a comprehensive bibliography ensure that those who require further information will be able to find it easily. ... Read more

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This book covers the history of the Jews in England from 1066 to the present day.It focuses on demography and utilises this area to illustrate changes in the fortunes and social structures of Jews in Great Britain throughout the centuries. It contains many facinating statistics, tables, graphs and illustrations.There is a chapter with short biographies of influential 20th century British Jews.There is also a chapter listing the history and demography of Jews in towns Outside London. The book includes comprehensive notes and a useful bibliography.It makes for easy reading and merits a place on any Jewish bookshelf. ... Read more

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a great read, with plenty of charts and graphs to help those whose statistics is rusty
Libby Schweber writes a history of statistics, specifically a history of different methods of statistical analysis and what information, if any, can be inferred from statistics. What can we learn about a population from a segment of its parts?

Imagine a presidential election. A magazine sends surveys to its readers, and from the hundreds of thousands of surveys returned, predicts a winner. A polling organization surveys a few hundred people. They predict the winner, and the magazine does not. What happened? The magazine sent its survey to its readership, which skewed toward the rich and the right. So did their votes. But the organization that understood statistics achieved what is called a random sample of the entire U.S. population; the sample did not skew rich or poor, right or left. It was a true representation of the whole. So even though many fewer were surveyed, the results were predictive. (This is how Gallup polling works.)

This anecdote, popular in statistics classes, is the best way I can think of to describe the excitement of this book. There are different methods of gathering and using statistics. This book concerns the French, who wanted knowledge of individuals. They wanted to apply general statistics to individuals. They sought statistical knowledge for knowledge's sake. The English, on the other hand, saw statistics as general numbers - and they used the numbers to influence the public and to effect legislation. Statistics was invented, after all. Its purpose was by no means determined by the 1800s.

What should the purpose and extent of statistics be? For people interested by the classic The Bell Curve, this book delves deeper into the history, use and possible misuse of statistics. It's a great read, with plenty of charts and graphs to help those whose statistics is rusty. And remember: skimming is allowed. ... Read more

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The papers in this volume address the influence of economic fluctuations upon mortality, fertility, and labor markets in the Latin America of the 1980s. Contributors attempt to distinguish short-term effects from long-term ones. Broader policy-related and institutional factors affecting the continent as a whole are examined alongside the demographic consequences of economic changes in individual countries. ... Read more

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This book examines the importance of religion for demographic behaviour in India. It offers evidence that religious differences infertility are due in fact to socio-economic characteristics and makesrecommendations for population policies in countries characterized byreligious pluramism. ... Read more

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Pathetic attempt at hiding the Islamic demographic bomb
Data from National Family Health Survey of India,
NFHS-1 which came out in 1993 and NFHS-2 which came out in 1999,
show that muslim fertility is compared to much more socio-economically backward groups like Tribals, Dalits, Rurals,
Illiterates and very poor, in almost every state
for 1968, 1973, 1993, 1999, muslim fertility is much higher
than these backward groups.This suggests Indian muslims
are waging deliberate demographic warfare.

Thanks to the islamic demographic warfare, muslims have expanded
from 9.9% to about 17% by 2050 ( projection from NFHS data )
India is facing a new islamic partition threat thanks to the islamic demographic bomb

This book is also refuted by the 1999 study by Moulasha and Rama Rao, published in EPW, wherein the data shows that for the same
level of socio-economics, muslim fertility is 45% higher than
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The Demography of Victorian England and Wales describes in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution that occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancy. It is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full color. This clear, comprehensive and engaging reference work makes a seminal contribution to demographic history. ... Read more

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The scope of this Dictionary is the past and present determinants and consequences of population trends throughout the world. With the collaboration of an international panel of fifty-seven experts, authors William Petersen and Renee Petersen have included not only the subject matter of demography and related disciplines but the institutional setting and results of research in countries around the world. The subject matter of formal demography is given its proper prominent place. Such terms as cohort are defined, such tools as the life table and the computer are described, and key topics like fertility, mortality, and migration are expounded in essays of some depth. Medical terms that one is likely to find in a work on demography are defined, and there are full discussions of major diseases of the past and of current causes of death. Notable demographic studies are described. Several dozen computer programs, usually labelled only with their acronyms, are identified and described. Other entries detail the effect on population trends of political movements, major religions, and membership in particular ethnic groups. Almost every entry is supplemented by a list of references to sources of additional information. A very full index notes every mention of persons, countries, and major topics of demographic analysis, organizing the Dictionary's great store of information for quick and easy reference. ... Read more

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The authors of this work use a novel strategy that combines record linkage and demographic/statistical analysis to produce an internally consistent and robust set of estimates of the African-American population during the period 1930-1990. They interpret the record that emerges, with special reference to longevity trends and differentials. This work is for demographers, sociologists and students of ethnic studies.

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This book analyses a peculiar phase in the history of Stockholm which has not previously been systematically investigated. Between 1750 and 1850 the Swedish capital experienced long-term stagnation, characterized by de-industrialization and slow population growth. In this study various aspects of the economic and social history of the period are examined in detail, including the decline of manufacturing, the causes of the extremely high rates of mortality and extra-marital fertility, and the distribution of economic resources. Social and spatial patterns of poverty are described and the trends and fluctuations in prices and real wages charted and compared with other European towns and cities. ... Read more