Demography has been characterized as the quantitative study of fundamental demographic
processes, such as mortality, fertility, migration, and marriage. These processes may be …

Current population forecasting efforts generally adopt variants of the cohort-survival
projection method. This technique summarizes the pattern of fertility and mortality to which a …

A prime focus of interest in demography has always been the occurrence of events and
consequences of these events for population stocks. Central to our concerns are births …

The standard demographic approach to population forecasting consists of extrapolating into
the future carefully measured birth, death, and migration rates. An alternative is to forecast …

The demographic model is a program for representing births, deaths, migration, and social
mobility as social processes in a non-stationary stochastic process (Markovian). Transition …

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 …

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

Population projections are" what if" computational exercises. Given selected assumptions
about future trends in fertility, mortality, and migration, population trends can be projected …

Event history models, also known as hazard models, are commonly used in analyses of
fertility. One drawback of event history models is that the conditional probabilities (hazards) …

Fertility projections often involve the forecasting of age-specific fertility rates. This may be
done to take advantage of the tiown age stn@ ure of the existing female population in using …