This paper reports an investigation of the relation between the number of live births during a
woman's reproductive life-cycle and her ages at those births. Four samples of women from …

It is reasonable to consider these volumes together, for they have much the same topic and
much the same approach. Both books begin with essays which criticize previous …

The population growth rate, or intrinsic rate of increase, is the rate of growth that will be
achieved by a population with fixed vital rates. The sensitivity of population growth rate to …

In a classic statement, Hauser and Duncan (1959) defined demography as “the study of the
size, territorial distribution, and composition of population, changes therein, and the …

The paper begins by distinguishing, with the aid of the Lexis diagram that plots age against
time, three kinds of demographic rate: age-group rates, period rates, and life-table rates …

Many seemingly different questions that arise in the analysis of population change can be
phrased as the same technical question: How, within a given demographic model, would …

The life table enjoys an increasing popularity as a vehicle to investigate duration data and to
study life course patterns. The scope of life table analysis has been widened greatly over the …

Mathematical demography is a specialization in demography concerned with the
articulation, analysis, and empirical application of theoretical models or representations of …

A presidential address is poor occasion for changing one's ways, and inveterate
compromisers compromise. So that, unable to choose among single integrated topics, I have …

This chapter has essentially a methodological purpose. It discusses recent advances in
statistical event history analysis and Markov models and promotes the use of tools from the …