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

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...

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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
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