From Birth to Death A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies |
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| Author:
| Petersen, William |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4128-1491-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.95 |
Book Description:
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Provides a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the US. It describes the errors and other flaws typically found in such data; sets out the fundamentals of demography; reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex structure leads to false conclusions; explores race and ethnicity and the dilemmas inherent in the necessarily ambiguous definitions of these categories; and reviews the two most prominent population theories - Malthus and the fertility transition -...
More DescriptionProvides a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the US. It describes the errors and other flaws typically found in such data; sets out the fundamentals of demography; reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex structure leads to false conclusions; explores race and ethnicity and the dilemmas inherent in the necessarily ambiguous definitions of these categories; and reviews the two most prominent population theories - Malthus and the fertility transition - and questions why predictions of future population size are often completely wrong.