Narrowly defined, demography deals with the measurement of vital events (birth, death, and
marriage) and migration, studies the factors that influence the rate at which those events …

Depuis la mise au point de la reconstitution des familles, les questions et les méthodes de la
démographie historique ont beaucoup évolué. Au cours de la dernière décennie, la …

Much of mathematical demography is concerned with the measurement and projection of
changes of state, or status, experienced by individuals during their lifetime, eg, changes in …

The principal focus of this paper is to analyze the fertility transition of the 19th to early 21st
centuries with cohort fertility measures, and a discussion of key societal conditions shaping …

Hazard models have become a standard component of the demographer's toolkit. In certain
subfields, such as fertility analysis, they appear to be the dominant technol-ogy of the day …

The demographic model demonstrated in the following was designed to estimate fertility
among women of a given age by order of birth of child. Estimations as to age-specific and …

This paper illustrates the application of increment—decrement life table methods to the study
of family building patterns among women. Here age at the oocurrence of a specified birth is …

Abstract 1972 saw the publication of two mathematical models of the first marriage process,
one by Ansley J. Coale and DR McNeil (in the Journal of the American Statistical …