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Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
Av Tommy Bengtsson, Nico Keilman
Inbunden, 2019
551 kr
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This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as behavioural and biological …
Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology
Av Hal Caswell
Inbunden, 2019
551 kr
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This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified, stage-classified, and multistate …
Exceptional Lifespans
Av Heiner Maier, Bernard Jeune m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
568 kr
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How long can humans live? This open access book documents, verifies and brings to life the advance of the frontier of human survival. It carefully validates data on supercentenarians, aged 110+, and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105-109, stored in the International Database on Longevity (IDL). The …
Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
Av Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka
Inbunden, 2017
551 kr
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries …
Model-Based Demography
Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory
Inbunden, 2017
551 kr
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Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily …
Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
Av Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries …
Model-Based Demography
Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily …
Inverse Projection Techniques
Old and New Approaches
Av Elisabetta Barbi, Salvatore Bertino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1095 kr
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Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable. The book offers an overview of the present state of methodological development in the field of inverse …
Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life
Inbunden, 2004
1095 kr
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This stimulating, carefully-researched book on The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life by Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer is the second volume of a new series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. The topic of the book is fascinating. Is a person's lifespan influ enced by health …
Seasonality in Human Mortality
A Demographic Approach
Av Roland Rau
Inbunden, 2006
1128 kr
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Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This does, however, not explain why in colder …
Inevitable Aging?
Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory
Inbunden, 2008
1095 kr
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Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging is not escaping death. Death is an inherent part of life, and it can strike any time. But the question …
How Long Do We Live?
Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects
Av Elisabetta Barbi, John Bongaarts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1095 kr
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How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m. onthe27thofFebruary1661,demog- phers have developed better and better methods. Some concerns were raised, including …
Fertility of Immigrants
A Two-Generational Approach in Germany
Inbunden, 2009
1095 kr
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This volume, “Fertility of Immigrants: A Two-Generational Approach in Germany” by Dr. Nadja Milewski, is the sixth book of a series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. Dr. Milewski is now working for the University of Rostock, but at the time she wrote the book, she was …
Inverse Projection Techniques
Old and New Approaches
Av Elisabetta Barbi, Salvatore Bertino m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1095 kr
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Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable. The book offers an overview of the present state of methodological development in the field of inverse …
Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life
Häftad, 2010
1095 kr
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This stimulating, carefully-researched book on The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life by Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer is the second volume of a new series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. The topic of the book is fascinating. Is a person's lifespan influ enced by health …
Seasonality in Human Mortality
A Demographic Approach
Av Roland Rau
Häftad, 2010
1128 kr
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Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This does, however, not explain why in colder …
Inevitable Aging?
Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory
Häftad, 2010
1128 kr
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Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging is not escaping death. Death is an inherent part of life, and it can strike any time. But the question …
How Long Do We Live?
Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects
Av Elisabetta Barbi, John Bongaarts m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1095 kr
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How should life expectancy be calculated? More generally, how should life - bles be estimated? Since John Graunt's pioneering contribution, read before theRoyalSocietyofLondonat6p. m. onthe27thofFebruary1661,demog- phers have developed better and better methods. Some concerns were raised, including …
Supercentenarians
Av Heiner Maier, Jutta Gampe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1095 kr
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Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The …
Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?
The Case of Sweden
Inbunden, 2010
1095 kr
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Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. It is taking place to a varying degree all over the world, more in Europe and some Asian countries, less on the African continent. The worldwide share of people aged 65 years and above …
Fertility of Immigrants
A Two-Generational Approach in Germany
Häftad, 2012
1064 kr
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This volume, “Fertility of Immigrants: A Two-Generational Approach in Germany” by Dr. Nadja Milewski, is the sixth book of a series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. Dr. Milewski is now working for the University of Rostock, but at the time she wrote the book, she was …
Supercentenarians
Av Heiner Maier, Jutta Gampe m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1095 kr
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Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The …
Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?
The Case of Sweden
Häftad, 2012
1095 kr
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Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. It is taking place to a varying degree all over the world, more in Europe and some Asian countries, less on the African continent. The worldwide share of people aged 65 years and above …
Mathematical Demography
Selected Papers
Av David P. Smith, Nathan Keyfitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1748 kr
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Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought …
Mathematical Demography
Selected Papers
Av David P. Smith, Nathan Keyfitz m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
1748 kr
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Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought …
Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine
Av France Meslé, Jacques Vallin
Inbunden, 2012
1095 kr
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The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not …
Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
Inbunden, 2012
1128 kr
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Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany—with focus on small-area differentials—and their changes over time. It identifies …
Germany's New Security Demographics
Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging
Av Wenke Apt
Inbunden, 2013
1095 kr
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Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since contemporary military operations still …
Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
Häftad, 2014
1128 kr
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Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany—with focus on small-area differentials—and their changes over time. It identifies …
Germany's New Security Demographics
Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging
Av Wenke Apt
Häftad, 2016
1095 kr
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Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since contemporary military operations still …
