Essential Demographic Methods - Hardcover

Wachter, Kenneth W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674045572 ISBN 13: 9780674045576

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Essential Demographic Methods brings to readers the full range of ideas and skills of demographic analysis that lie at the core of social sciences and public health. Classroom tested over many years, filled with fresh data and examples, this approachable text is tailored to the needs of beginners, advanced students, and researchers alike. An award-winning teacher and eminent demographer, Kenneth Wachter uses themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to convey the meaning of concepts such as exponential growth, cohorts and periods, lifetables, population projection, proportional hazards, parity, marity, migration flows, and stable populations. The presentation is carefully paced and accessible to readers with knowledge of high-school algebra. Each chapter contains original problem sets and worked examples.

From the most basic concepts and measures to developments in spatial demography and hazard modeling at the research frontier, Essential Demographic Methods brings out the wider appeal of demography in its connections across the sciences and humanities. It is a lively, compact guide for understanding quantitative population analysis in the social and biological world.

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About the Author

Kenneth W. Wachter is Professor of Demography and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674045572
• ISBN 13: 9780674045576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312