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 …

This book provides a review of the techniques of event history analysis in demography.
During the 1970s, the amount of reliable data made available as a result of surveys …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on multistate demography and event history
analysis. Two different traditions for analyzing the movement of populations over discrete …

Projection of individual age-specific fertility rates is a forecasting problem of high dimension.
We solve this dimensionality problem by using parametric curves to approximate the annual …

Event history analysis-the study of individual life histories-has developed rapidly over the
past few years. This book illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the …

Daniel Courgeau and Eva Lelievre react in this article to the attempt made by Chantal Blayo
(Population, 6, 1995) to reformulate event history methodology in the classic terms of …

Population control requires that the birth rate equal to the death rate. If it is too low
population will decline; if it is too high, population will increase. If either condition persists …

Fifty years have passed since the post–World War II development of demography as an
academic field. During this time, one of the central focuses of research has been the study of …

This book is the result of several years of experience in teaching principles and methods of
demographic analysis at the Department of Demography of the University of Louvain …

The aim was to examidne the nature of the roots for a set of net fertility function expressing
the full variety of fertility experience to be found in large human populations. One segment of …