Authors:Tukufu Zuberi, Amson Sibanda, Eric O. Udjo,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: africa, demography, general, south
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2005-07-30
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0765615630
ISBN-13: 9780765615633

This groundbreaking study of South Africa provides a unique look at the interplay of demographic, social and economic processes in a society undergoing rapid change as a result of the collapse of apartheid. It uses data from the first post-apartheid census as the basis for analysis of fertility, mortality within the context of HIV/AIDS, migration, education, employment, and household structure. These census data are complemented by large-scale household surveys and data from a partial registration system to study the relationships among various demographic, economic, and social phenomena. For

Author: Eric Abella Roth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: anthropological, demography, social, perspectives, new, culture, biology
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2004-08-16
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521005418
ISBN-13: 9780521005418

Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today--anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Eric Roth reconciles these approaches through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.

Author: Peter R. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: demography
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1970-03-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 052109612X
ISBN-13: 9780521096126

Demography is the study by statistical methods of human populants involving the measurement of their size, growth and diminution, the proportions living within some areas, being born, marrying, having children or dying and the related functions of fertility, nuptially and morality. This book begins by defining a number of concepts which are useful for demographic analysis, including the significant events in life and types of statistical data which are collected, published and used. It then describes the various kinds of change which can occur and the underlying causes - social, economic and p

Author: James D. Tarver
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: africa, demography
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-11-30
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0275948854
ISBN-13: 9780275948856

Written lucidly and simply to serve as an introduction to the study of the African continent from a human population perspective, this book demonstrates important factors in the ebb and flow of group size and structure using the example of the fastest growing region in the world. From a total original population of less than a quarter million in prehistoric times to the present count of 642 million people in 1990, Africa is now demonstrating an annual growth rate of 3.0%, the highest on the planet. While the rest of the world’s population is expected to increase by 60%, Africa’s is

Author: Robert L. Brown
Publisher: Actex Publications
Keywords: demography, mathematics, introduction
Published: 1997
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1566982057
ISBN-13: 9781566982054

Author: Colin Newell
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: demography, models, methods
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 1990-06-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0898624517
ISBN-13: 9780898624519

This volume clearly outlines the methods used to study population structure and change by presenting the major descriptive and analytical models developed by demographers to investigate the interrelationships between fertility, age, structure, and mortality. With illustrations, tables, and data drawn from a wide range of countries in both the developed and developing world, METHODS AND MODELS IN DEMOGRAPHY explicates the potential uses and limitations of the current models for population analysis, estimation, and forecasting.

Authors:Jay Weinstein, Vijayan K. Pillai,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: population, science, demography
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2000-11-16
List price: $103.40
ISBN-10: 0205283217
ISBN-13: 9780205283217

A comprehensive book that emphasizes the major techniques, methods, and data sources of contemporary population studies. Written by a sociologist and a demographer, the book’s principal aim is to improve the students’ skills primarily as consumers and secondarily as producers of demographic information. One reviewer says, "The author has a pleasant style. It is the voice of knowledge combined with a gentle voice of teaching." He goes on to say of the book, "It is really unique and refreshingly original. It is comprehensive and comprehensible." -Ron Hammond, University of Utah. The