Title:	Methods of Demographic Analysis
Authors:	Farhat Yusuf • Jo. M. Martins • David A. Swanson
Keywords:	Demographic Analysis
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	There have been many demography textbooks published over the past 50 years and we might ask: why is there a need for another? The answer is that, ideally, textbooks are tailored to the needs and capacities of the students that will be making use of the book. In my experience, this is particularly the case in the field of demography. Some prior textbooks in the field are pitched to a high, theoretical or mathematical level, probably aimed at people who plan to become academic demographers while others are pitched at a level where they can be understood by people undertaking training in human service occupations where some capacity with ‘numbers’ will be useful. Some texts assume relatively strong mathematical and statistical capacity on the part of the student while others try to steer around mere average capacity in this regard. This book is written by a group that has had many years of experience teaching demography to business and economics students. Accordingly, they have pitched the book towards students that have relatively good mathematical and statistical skills without extending to matrix algebra or integral calculus. The book is comprehensive in its coverage of the field of demography and the student mastering the text will be competent in the professional application of demographic methods. It uses many worked examples making it clear what lies behind the formulae. The authors, therefore, have produced a book that will be useful at the undergraduate and master’s levels where students have reasonably good quantitative skills. This is probably the mainstream of teaching in demography around the world. Besides its wide coverage of standard demographic measures, the book includes chapters on sources of demographic data and data evaluation methods. It also has a long chapter on statistics taking the student through basic statistical measures through to correlation and regression. The final chapter of the book provides useful references to software packages that can be used to derive many of the measures described in the preceding chapters. Many of these packages are available on the internet and are freely downloadable.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53028
ISBN:	978-94-007-6784-3
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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