This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others.

Although I feel honored to write a foreword for this important book, it is a task that I approach with some trepidation. The topics covered in the book summarize the current state of the art in technical demography.

This book offers an ideal introduction to the analysis of demographic data.

This book is the result of several years of experience in teaching principles and methods of demographic analysis at the Department of Demography of the University of Louvain.

The book aims to help students of demography as well as practitioners of other fields of social sciences and people in government, business, and nonprofit organizations.

Such techniques permit researchers to fill the gap between the large amounts of data made available by censuses and the theoretical and practical questions that need to be answered; the techniques of this book effectively bring the data ...

This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others.

Covers subjects that range from the core building blocks of population change to the consequences of demographic changes in the biological and health fields, population theories and doctrines, observation systems, and the teaching of ...

The book also explores sickness as a population characteristic and a way of better understanding mortality variations.