Methods of Demographic Analysis

This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and analyses of fertility, mortality, life tables, migration and demographic events such as marriage, education and labour force are described while later chapters cover multiple decrement tables, population projections, the importance of testing and smoothing demographic data, the stable population model and demographic software.

An emphasis on practical aspects and the use of real-life examples based on data from around the globe make this book accessible, whilst comprehensive references and links to data and other resources on the internet help readers to explore further.

The text is concise and well written, making it ideally suitedto a wider audience from students to academics and teachers. Students of demography, geography, sociology, economics, as well as professionals, academics and students of marketing, human resource management, and public health who have an interest in population issues will all find this book useful.

• Births, fertility and fecundity
• Calculations using real-life examples
• Census
• Components of population change
• Contemporary real-world data
• Data and resource material on the internet
• Data collection models
• Deaths, mortality and life expactancy
• Demographic information
• Demographic software
• Demographic stocks and flows
• Demography and demographic analysis
• Developments in demographic methods
• IUSSP Tools for demographic analysis
• Longevity and life tables
• Longitudinal/cohort analysis
• Population density and distribution
• Population growth rates
• Population registers
• Population studies
• Sex and gender
• Statistical measures

“More experienced practitioners, whether in the field of demography or in a field in which demographic analysis is used, will find the book to be a useful reference document. … the overall organization of the book is logical. It follows a fairly standard approach to presenting demographic methods. … The strengths of this book are its structure, organization, and the thorough treatment of demographic methods.” (Gustave Goldmann, Canadian Studies in population, Vol. 42 (3-4), 2015)

• Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Farhat Yusuf

• Faculty of Busniness and Economics, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, Avalon Beach, Australia

  Jo. M. Martins

• Department of Sociology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Univeristy of California, Riverside, Riverside California, USA

  David A. Swanson

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