Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography

By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of estimates and projection techniques and evaluation procedures; new techniques are proposed for estimating families and households and particular attention is paid to the much-discussed topic of access to health care. Coverage extends to factors influencing health status and elder abuse, child bearing and labor market analysis and the effects of education on labor market outcomes of native white American and immigrant European populations.

Methodologically rigorous and pragmatically useful, Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography also examines a wide variety of public and private issues under the field of applied demography. It provides a broad overview of research topics and also reflects substantial development in the field of applied demography. It also bridges the gap between theory and research by providing several examples of work of distinguished applied demographic.

• 2008 economic crises
• Access to health care
• Childbearing and the labor market
• GIS redistricting issues and cohort analysis
• GIS, mapping and spatial demography
• Health disparities
• Health status and elder abuse
• Homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual population
• Immigrant European population
• Incidence of desease/disorders in the US
• Labor market, households and poverty
• Medical health and care
• Mobile home population displacement
• Modelling socio-demographic predictors
• Native White American population
• POPART
• Population estimates by new and current methods
• Population forecast errors
• Population projections and 2010 Census counts
• Public and private issues in applied demography
• Racially polarized voting
• Rural-urban living arrangements

This book is really terrific. It bridges the persistent gap between demographic theory and demographic practice by presenting several fine examples of work by some of today’s finest and most experienced applied demographers

Paul R. Voss, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Carolina Population center

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Hobby Center for Public Policy, University of Houston, Houston, USA

  M.Nazrul Hoque

• Department of Demography Inst of Demog and Socioeconomic Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, USA

  Lloyd B. Potter

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