Applied Demography in the 21st Century

Selected Papers from the Biennial Conference on Applied Demography, San Antonio, Teas, Januara 7-9, 2007

AvSteve H. Murdock,David A. Swanson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Derived from the 1st post-2000 national conference on Applied Demography, held in San Antonio, Texas January 7-9, 2007 under the sponsorship of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio, this book provides an opportunity to obtain an overview of the state of applied demography.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-04-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt:740 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Applied Demography Series
Antal sidor:372
Upplaga:2008
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781402083280

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

Data Use And Measurement Issues.- Applied Demography at the Beginning of the 21st Century.- Measuring Population Change Using the American Community Survey.- Using the 2005 American Community Survey.- Address Coverage Improvement and Evaluation Program – 2005 National Estimate of Coverage of the Master Address File.- Population Estimates And Projections.- Using Assessor Parcel Data to Maintain Housing Unit Counts for Small Area Population Estimates.- Aging and Elder Abuse: Projections for Michigan.- Methods for Measuring the Population after a Disaster.- An Evaluation of Population Estimates for Counties and Places in Texas for 2000.- Using Demographic Estimates and Projections to Improve Statistical Forecasting.- Measuring Uncertainty in Population Data Generated by the Cohort-Component Method: A Report on Research in Progress.- Applied Demography And Health.- Tuberculosis and Perception of Risk: A Comparison of Native Born and Foreign Born Persons in the United States.- Causes of Fire Deaths and Injuries in Anchorage, Alaska: Policy Implications.- Dispersion of Registered Death Causes as a Function of Age in the 1999 U.S. Population.- The Breadth Of Applied Demography.- Comparison of Potential Demographic Influences on Church Membership of Two United Methodist Congregations in San Antonio, Texas.- Linking Tax-Lot and Student Record Data: Applications in School Planning.- Demography and Turnover.- Household Consumption in China: An Examination of the Utility of Urban-Rural Segmentation.- How Chinese Children Spend Their Time.- Educating The Applied Demographer.- Introducing Survey Methods to Professional Students in Applied Demography.- The Academic Training of Applied Demographers: History, Evolution, and a Description of the First Ph.D. Program in AppliedDemography.- Conclusions.- Applied Demography in the 21st Century.