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Applied Mathematical Demography

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Nathan Keyfitz

    1. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

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Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Statistics (STS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: Population Without Age

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 1-33

  3. The Life Table

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    Pages 34-53

  4. Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio

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    Pages 54-76

  5. Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory

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    Pages 77-111

  6. Birth and the Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase

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    Pages 112-141

  7. Reproductive Value, with Applications to Migration, Contraception, and Zero Population Growth

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 142-161

  8. Understanding Population Characteristics

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    Pages 162-200

  9. Projection and Forecasting

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    Pages 201-236

  10. Some Types of Instability

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    Pages 237-272

  11. The Demographic Theory of Kinship

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 273-302

  12. Microdemography

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 303-349

  13. The Multi-State Model

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    Pages 350-367

  14. Family Demography

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 368-384

  15. Heterogeneity and Selection in Population Analysis

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 385-399

  16. Epilogue: How Do We Know the Facts of Demography?

    • Nathan Keyfitz
    Pages 400-418

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 419-441
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About this book

What follows is a new edition of the second in a series of three books providing an account of the mathematical development of demography. The first, Introduction to the Mathematics of Population (Addison-Wesley, 1968), gave the mathematical background. The second, the original of the present volume, was concerned with demography itself. The third in the sequence, Mathematics Through Problems (with John Beekman; Springer­ Verlag, 1982), supplemented the first two with an ordered sequence of problems and answers. Readers interested in the mathematics may consult the earlier book, republished with revisions by Addison-Wesley in 1977 and still in print. There is no overlap in subject matter between Applied Mathematical Demography and the Introduction to the Mathematics of Population. Three new chapters have been added, dealing with matters that have come recently into the demographic limelight: multi-state calculations, family demogra­ phy, and heterogeneity. vii PREFACE This book is concerned with commonsense questions about, for instance, the effect of a lowered death rate on the proportion of old people or the effect of abortions on the birth rate. The answers that it reaches are not always commonsense, and we will meet instances in which intuition has to be adjusted to accord with what the mathematics shows to be the case.

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  • IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

    Nathan Keyfitz

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