Measuring Mortality, Fertility, and Natural Increase A Self-Teaching Guide to Elementary Measures

• Main Authors: Palmore, James A. (Author), Gardner, Robert W. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA East-West Center 1994
• Edition: Fifth edition
• Subjects: Demography; Vital statistics; Mortality > Statistical methods; Fertility, Human > Statistical methods
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• Item Description: Combined revised edition of: Measuring fertility and natural increase. 1972 and Measuring mortality
• Physical Description: xiii, 169 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [153]-158) and index
• ISBN: 9780866381659; 0866381651

Presents elementary measures used in demographic analysis, beginning with rates, ratios, percentages, and probabilities and proceeding to the crude death rate and age-specific death rates, standardized rates, the infant mortality rate, the life table, the crude birth rate and age-specific fertility rates, the general fertility rate, total fertility rate, gross and net reproduction rates, period and cohort fertility measures, and the analysis of birth intervals. Written in a direct, conversational style, it includes numerous examples and illustrations that have been updated with data from the 1990 round of censuses. At the end of each section are exercises and quizzes designed to test students' understanding of the material presented. Four appendixes and recommendations for further reading provide readers with additional useful information