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• Demography [Browse]

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• Vallin, Jacques [Browse]
• Wunsch, Guillaume J. [Browse]

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Notes

"A treatise in population studies"--Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Machine derived contents note: Volume I Contents
• General Introduction
• Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin and Guillaume Wunsch
• Section I Population Dynamics
• Introduction to Section I
• Graziella Caselli and Jacques Vallin
• PART ONE
• Population Growth
• Chapter 1 Populations and individuals
• Jacques Vallin
• I. Number and composition
• II. Size, composition and dynamics: State and change
• Chapter 2 Population: replacement and change
• I. Exogenous replacement: entries and exits by migration
• II. Endogenous replacement: births, deaths
• Chapter 3 Population increase
• Guillaume Wunsch, Jacques Vallin and Graziella Caselli
• I. Total population increase
• II. Natural and migratory increase
• Chapter 4 Population dynamics: movement and structure
• I. The age-sex structure
• II. Crude rates and age-specific rates
• III. The relationship between age-specific rates, age structure and population growth
• PART TWO
• The Longitudinal Approach: Description of Demographic Processes in a Birth Cohort
• Introduction to Part Two
• Chapter 5 Variation through Time of Age-Specific Rates
• Chapter 6 From situating events in time to the Lexis diagram and the computing of rates
• I. Time, age, cohort
• II. The Lexis diagram
• III. Elements for computing a rate, according to the classification mode of events
• Chapter 7 Frequency surfaces and isofrequency lines
• I. Attempts at three-dimensional representation
• II. Contour lines
• Chapter 8 Rates, frequencies, and probabilities
• Guillaume Wunsch
• I. Types of events and population states
• II. Repeatable events: rates and frequencies
• III. Non-repeatable events, probabilities, and occurrence/exposure rates
• IV. Single and multiple decrement
• V. The force of attrition
• Chapter 9 Competing risks, independence, and continuity
• I. The condition of independence
• II. L¿hypothèse de continuitéThe condition of continuity
• Chapter 10 The Longitudinal Approach
• I. Individual and Cohort Data
• Chapter 11 Cohort life table
• Jacques Vallin and Graziella Caselli
• I. Calculating a cohort's probabilities of dying
• II. Construction and main functions of the table
• III. From the discrete to the continuous: entering the table via the force of mortality
• IV. The oldest-ages problem and table closure
• V. The special case of infant mortality
• Chapter 12 Cohort analysis of fertility
• I. Analysing cohort fertility from retrospective data
• II. Cohort fertility from vital registration data
• III. Fertility by marriage cohorts
• IV. Fertility by parity cohorts
• Chapter 13 Cohort approach to external migration flows
• I. The data constraint
• II. Age-specific inflow and outflow rates
• III. Estimating net migration: a robust approach despite its limits
• PART THREE
• Period Analysis Revisited: the Hypothetical Cohort and its Relations with Actual Birth Cohorts
• Introduction to Part Three
• Chapter 14 The hypothetical cohort as a tool for demographic analysis
• I. The period life table
• II. Hypothetical intensity and tempo of fertility
• III. External migrations
• Chapter 15 Confounding variables, standardization, and the problem of summary indices Guillaume Wunsch
• I. Confounding variables
• II. Interaction between causes
• III. Standardisation and the problem of summary indices
• Chapter 16 Relationships between age-specific rates and synthetic indicators: decomposition of a difference
• I. How differences in age-specific mortality affect a difference in life expectancy
• II. Tempo effect and intensity effect on the difference between two TFRs
• Chapter 17 Demographic Translation: From Period to Cohort Perspective and Back
• Nico Keilman
• I. The need for both cohort and period analysis
• II. Early expressions by Ryder for the case of age-specific fertility
• III. Expressions for non-repeatable events
• IV. The Bongaarts/Feeney method for tempo adjustment of period fertility
• V. Numerical illustrations
• Conclusion
• Chapter 18 Age-Period-Cohort models in demography
• John Wilmoth
• I. Theoretical motivation
• II. Age-Period-Cohort models
• PART FOUR
• A Tentative Synthesis of the Components of Dynamics: from Reproduction to Population Models
• Introduction to Part Four
• Chapter 19 Population replacement
• I. Female reproduction
• II. Male reproduction and the sex-reconciliation issue
• Chapter 20 Population models
• I. Lotka¿s theory
• II. Moving towards a stable state via the projection matrix
• III. A special case: the stationary population
• IV. Some applications of the stable population model
• V. From semi-stable and quasi-stable populations to generalized stable equations
• PART FIVE
• From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: New Ways forward for Demographic Analysis
• Introduction to Part Five
• Chapter 21 Unobserved population heterogeneity
• James Vaupel and Anatoli Yashin
• I. Population heterogeneity
• II. Compositional change
• III. Three levels of explanation
• IV. Frailty models
• V. Empirical data
• VI. Methods of parameter estimation
• Chapter 22 Mobility and spatial heterogeneity
• Daniel Courgeau
• I. Concepts of mobility
• II. Measurement issues
• III. Mobility over time
• IV. Mobility, space and spatial models
• V. Multistate models
• Chapter 23 Demographic event history analysis
• Daniel Courgeau and Eva Lelièvre
• Introduction
• I. From longitudinal analysis to event history analysis
• II. Changing paradigm
• III. Statistical formalisation
• IV. Applications of these methods in various research fields
• V. Future developments
• Chapter 24 Individuals and context in the multilevel approach to behavioral analysis
• I. Individual and aggregate measures: contextual analysis
• II. Introducing group effects: multilevel models
• III. Generalization of the analysis
• Section Ii
• Determinants Of Fertility
• Introduction To Section Ii
• A precondition of fertility: union formation
• Introduction to Part One
• Chapter 25 Analysis of couple formation and dissolution
• Patrick Festy
• I. Principles of cohort analysis
• II. The nuptiality table
• III. Proxy measures of the nuptiality table
• IV. Period measures
• V. Divorce table
• VI. Widowhood table
• VII. Remarriage
• VIII. Unions and marriage
• IX. Nuptiality and fertility
• X. Male and female nuptiality
• Chapter 26 Event-history analysis of nuptiality
• Philippe Antoine
• I. Complexity of marital statuses: from consensual unions to polygamy
• II. Nuptiality analysis and event-history analysis
• III. First marriage, divorce, and polygamy in Dakar
• Chapter 27 The complexities of nuptiality: from early female union to male polygamy in Africa
• I. Nuptiality in Africa: diversity and change
• II. Does polygamy still matter?
• Chapter 28 Factors in couple formation
• Thérèse Locoh
• I. Nuptiality, alliance, and reproduction
• II. Age of access to sex and age at marriage
• III. Couple formation and the choice of partner: from social control to personal decision
• IV.
• Life and death of unions
• Chapter 29 Marital and non-marital fertility
• Silvana Salvini and Antonio Santini
• I. The ancien regime
• II. Demographic transition
• III. Foundations of marital-fertility analysis
• IV. Post-transition societies
• V. New family structures and the measurement of fertility:
• the problem of heterogeneity
• VI. Event-history analysis and fertility in multiple unions
• VII. Fertility outside marriage and adolescent female fertility
• PART TWO Biological and social factors of fertility at the level of individuals and couples
• Chapter 30 Biological and social factors of fertility : an overview
• Henri Leridon
• 1. Fertility and fecundity: the vocabulary
• 2. The limits of the reproductive period
• 3. From one birth to the next: the components of birth intervals
• 4. The menstrual cycle as a unit for measurement of time
• 5. Fecundability
• 6. Duration of pregnancy
• 7. The post-partum non-susceptible period
• Chapter 31 Factors of fecundability and the nonsusceptible period
• 1. Ages at menarche and at menopause
• 2. The frequency of sexual intercourse
• 3. Breastfeeding
• 4. Contraception
• Chapter 32 Foetal mortality
• Catherine Gourbin
• 1. Foetal mortality levels
• 2. The determinants of foetal mortality
• 3. Health-care provision and foetal mortality
• 4. Induced abortion and foetal death
• Conclusion and future research directions
• Chapter 33 Sterility: causes and treatment
• 1. From infertil.

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2005019413

OCLC

61151368

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