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Essential Demographic Methods
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Kenneth W. Wachter
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
Classroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demographer Kenneth Wachter draws on themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to bring out the wider appeal of demography.
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Wachter Kenneth W. :
Kenneth W. Wachter is Professor of Demography and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ken Wachter’s unique and fascinating approach to teaching demographic methods has shaped generations of undergraduates and graduate students at UC Berkeley. Essential Demographic Methods is a major accomplishment and makes his invaluable and original teachings available to a broad audience.
-- Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
-- Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
I studied with Ken Wachter and became a demographer because of the course he taught with the materials that became this book.
-- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
-- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Figures and Tables
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Preface
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Introduction: Why Study Demography?
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1. Exponential Growth
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2. Periods and Cohorts
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3. Cohort Mortality
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4. Cohort Fertility
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5. Population Projection
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6. Period Fertility
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7. Period Mortality
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8. Heterogeneous Risks
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9. Marriage and Family
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10. Stable Age Structures
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11. Migration and Location
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Conclusion
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Appendix A. Sources and Notes
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Appendix B. Useful Formulas
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
June 23, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780674369757
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Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
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Main content:
306
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40 graphs, 46 tables
eBook ISBN:
9780674369757
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
