This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of
interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population …

In this paper we applied a recently developed statistical technique, hazard modelling, to the
study of menarche and adolescent subfecundity. Using data collected in Bangladesh in …

The family formation process is viewed as the progression of women through first marriage,
first, subsequent, and last births and is examined for differential patterns of timing in 1930 …

Age-parity-specific birth probabilities and central birth rates cumulated over successive five-
year age groups for US birth cohorts (whites only) are analyzed using age, period, and …

This volume clearly outlines the methods used to study population structure and change by
presenting the major descriptive and analytical models developed by demographers to …

The indirect methods of demographic estimation available to date are often inadequate to
estimate levels in the presence of trends. The use of measures relative to hypothetical …

In this paper the author proposes an alternative formulation of Ryder's equations of
demographic translation by constructing a filter which relates period and cohort-based …

A life table model which can recognize increments (or entrants) as well as decrements has
proven to be of considerable value in the analysis of marital status patterns, labor force …

This paper applies the techniques of multiple decrement life tables to marriage histories
collected as part of the 1973 National Survey of Family Growth, in an attempt to examine …

Age, Time, and Fertility: Applications of Exploratory Data Analysis describes change in the
age pattern of fertility that responds to a specific need in making fertility comparisons across …