Demographic Methods and Concepts makes accessible the most commonly needed techniques for working with population statistics, irrespective of the reader's mathematical background. For the first time in such a text, concepts and practical strategies needed in the interpretation of demographic indices and data are included. Spreadsheet training exercises enable students to acquire the computer skills needed for demographic work.
The accompanying free CD-ROM contains innovative, fully integrated learning modules as well as applications facilitating demographic studies. Each chapter contains study resources including glossary of key terms, further reading, internet resources, exercises, and spreadsheet exercises.
- Clear, non-technical explanations of methods, with worked examples, enable students without a background in algebra, calculus or statistics to learn demographic methods
- The book includes concepts and strategies for interpreting demographic data and indices not covered by any other methods texts
- Includes techniques for analysis of population at regional and local, as well as national, scales — of particular interest to geographers and planners but usually omitted from demographic texts
- Includes chapters on migration and applied demography
- The only text with fully integrated computer-based learning modules, providing visual demonstrations of the nature of demographic concepts and visual comparisons of demographic data
- Spreadsheet exercises at the end of every chapter develop the relevant computer skills essential in working with demographic statistics
- Accompanied by a free CD-ROM with Excel modules demonstrating concepts and facilitating population projections and other commonly needed techniques
Contents:
Preface
Section 1. Population Dynamics
- Population Change
- Population Growth and Decline
- Age-Sex Composition
Section 2. Analytical Approaches
- Comparing Populations
- Demographic Writing
Section 3. Vital Processes
- Mortality and Health
- Fertility and the Family
Section 4. Demographic Models
- Life Tables
- Stable and Stationary Models
Section 5. Spatial Patterns and Processes
- Population Distribution
- Migration
Section 6. Applied Demography
- Population Projections and Estimates
- Population Composition
Appendices:
A: Basic maths
B: Using the Excel modules
C: Introduction to Excel
D: Answers to exercises
Each chapter contains study resources including glossary of key terms, further reading, internet resources, exercises, and spreadsheet exercises.
Ancillary Material:
Companion Web Site:
www.oup.com/uk/booksites/geography/ includes PowerPoint figures, web links and a glossary.
Each chapter contains study resources including glossary of key terms, further reading, internet resources, exercises, and spreadsheet exercises; Preface; Section 1. Population Dynamics; 1. Population Change; 2. Population Growth and Decline; 3. Age-Sex Composition; Section 2. Analytical Approaches; 4. Comparing Populations; 5. Demographic Writing; Section 3. Vital Processes; 6. Mortality and Health; 7. Fertility and the Family; Section 4. Demographic Models; 8. Life Tables; 9. Stable and Stationary Models; Section 5. Spatial Patterns and Processes; 10. Population Distribution; 11. Migration; Section 6. Applied Demography; 12. Population Projections and Estimates; 13. Population Composition; Appendices:; A: Basic maths; B: Using the Excel modules; C: Introduction to Excel; D: Answers to exercises
Donald T. Rowland, Australian National University
Are you longing for a demography text that is amusing, literate and comprehensive? Do you want a CD with wonderfully constructed graphs that run the demographic transition through before your very eyes for the country of your choice, that let you build population pyramids, that project populations with different mortality, fertility and migration assumptions, that illustrate the stages of the epidemiologic transition and much more? If yes, your wishes can now be fulfilled. People and Place, Vol. 11 no.3 2003.
