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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Gordon A. Carmichael | - |
| dc.contributor.editor | Kenneth C. Land, | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-15T07:14:35Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-15T07:14:35Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-319-23255-3 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54173 | - |
| dc.description | This book has its origins in lectures prepared while teaching the course Principles of Population Analysis (PPA) in the Demography Program of the Australian National University (ANU) between 1989 and 1998. After a 1-year break I also taught the course for a further 2 years in 2000 and 2001 after moving to the ANU’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) in early 1999. There it was taught in conjunction with a heavily overlapping NCEPH course titled Population Analysis for Health Research. It seemed to me absurd that two courses with such substantial common content had been taught side by side in the same university, each to limited numbers of students, virtually throughout the 1990s, and my argument that common sense recommended in the future teaching them together was accepted by both my previous (Program) and my new (Centre) directors. By the middle stages of my time employed by the Demography Program, what began as lecture notes delivered to students orally and via a whiteboard, overhead projector and occasional handouts had morphed into draft chapters of a book that were distributed one by one as the course progressed. August 2001, however, saw the arrival of a new director at NCEPH, and armed with an external review recommending such action, he soon decreed that teaching a coursework master’s degree that was regularly attracting low single-figure numbers of students to most of its courses was an inefficient use of resources that could more profitably be redeployed boosting the Centre’s research productivity. My classroom teaching consequently ended, and PPA reverted to being the responsibility of the Demography Program, subsequently to become first the Demography and Sociology Program then the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI). My successor teaching PPA was a former student, Dr Rebecca Kippen, who sought my permission to continue using my draft chapters as core teaching material (she actually had them spiral bound for distribution as an inhouse ‘textbook’), and would thereafter encourage me towards formal publication whenever she saw me – with the addition of a chapter on population projections (excluded because projections were taught in a separate dedicated course). Rebecca continued using my ‘book’ until she left the ANU in early 2010 to take up a future fellowship at the University of Melbourne, but I was unable to justify spending the time needed to bring it to publication while in the employ of NCEPH – a demographic methods text was not core business for a Centre with a public health focus. | - |
| dc.language | en | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Methods | en_US |
| dc.title | Fundamentals of Demographic Analysis: Concepts, Measures and Methods | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Population Studies | |
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