The nature of demography
By: Hervé Le Bras
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780691139432; 9780691128238; 9870691128238
Description: "Rapid changes over the last twenty years have impacted every branch of demographic analysis, from birth rates and immigration, to marriage rates and aging. The Nature of Demography is a response to these enormous changes. Written by one of the world's leading demographers, this authoritative text offers a systematic and coherent overview of the fundamental ideas governing the study of present and future populations." "The book covers formal models as well as the underlying logic and context of demographic reasoning. The text also illustrates recent data and new methodological developments. The first section of the book discusses measurements that involve a single individual, such as mortality and fertility; the second section moves from individual behaviors to population-level phenomena; and the third section looks at models involving individuals and social structures within the population, such as marriage and migration rates - topics not addressed in such detail in any other demography text."--Jacket.
Notes: English ed. of: La démographie. Paris :  O. Jacob, c2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Individuals. Mortality ; Fertility ; Censoring ; Period and cohort approaches ; Interpreting period variations in fertility ; Timing changes and period mortality; title: II. Populations. Forecasts, projections, and prospects ; Stable populations and weak ergodicity ; Equilibrium and fluctuations ; Economics and population ; Life cycles and old-age pensions; title: III. Space and networks. The marriage market ; The laws of migration ; Four forms of internal migration ; Densities.