Title:	The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
Authors:	Roland Rau Christina Bohk-Ewald Magdalena M. Muszynska James W. Vaupel Kenneth C. Land
Keywords:	Survey
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approach may be disappointing: Demographers may have liked more information about the mathematical underpinnings of population dynamics on the Lexis surface as demonstrated, for instance, by Arthur and Vaupel in 1984. Statisticians would have probably preferred more information about the underlying smoothing methods that were used. Epidemiologists likewise might miss discussions about the etiology of diseases. Sociologists would have probably expected that our results were more embedded into theoretical frameworks.... We are aware of those potential shortcomings but believe that the current format can, nevertheless, provide interesting insights into mortality dynamics, and we hope our book can serve as a starting point to visualize data on the Lexis plane for those who have not used those techniques yet. Visualizing data has become increasingly popular in recent years.1 But why do we visualize data at all? Countless books on how to visualize data — often with a specific software tool in mind — are published every year. Maybe it seems to be too obvious, but only a few of those publications address the question of why one should visualize data at all. According to the ones covering the topic, the purpose of data visualization can be narrowed down to three reasons (e.g., Tukey 1977; Schumann and Müller 2000; Few 2014)
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55652
ISBN:	978-3-319-54395-6
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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