"This volume has a breadth of coverage not found in any similar text while providing sufficient depth into
each topic to provide a basic understanding and training in practical applications."
--Douglas Anderton, University of Massachusetts
Guilford Publications Web Site, January, 2001
Summary
This volume clearly outlines the methods used to study population structure and change by presenting the major
descriptive and analytical models developed by demographers to investigate the interrelationships between fertility,
age, structure, and mortality. With illustrations, tables, and data drawn from a wide range of countries in both
the developed and developing world, Methods and Models in Demography explicates the potential uses and limitations
of the current models for population analysis, estimation, and forecasting.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction for Formal Demography
I. Demographic Methods
2. Age and Sex Composition
3. Period Fertility
4. Cohort Fertility
5. Mortality and Life Tables
6. Migration
7. Marriage and Divorce
8. Reproductivity
II. Demographic Models
9. Introduction
10. Models of Age Structure
11. Empirical Model Life Tables
12. Rational Model Life Tables
13. Models of Nuptiality and Fertility
14. Population Projections and Forecasts
