Synopsis
1 Introduction: Population Without Age.- 2 The Life Table.- 3 Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio.- 4 Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory.- 5 Birth and the Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase.- 6 Reproductive Value, with Applications to Migration, Contraception, and Zero Population Growth.- 7 Understanding Population Characteristics.- 8 Projection and Forecasting.- 9 Some Types of Instability.- 10 The Demographic Theory of Kinship.- 11 Microdemography.- 12 The Multi-state Model.- 13 Family Demography.- 14 Heterogeneity and Selection in Population Analysis.- 15 Epilogue: How Do We Know the Facts of Demography?.
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