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Demography

The Study of Human Population, Third Edition

David Yaukey, Douglas L. Anderton, and Jennifer Hickes Lundquist

In recent years, demography has expanded the reach of problems it confronts, constantly developing the range of methodological tools it employs and illuminating the latest demographic issues. The third edition of Demography features up-to-date information on the study of the causes of changes in size and composition and the effects of these population trends.

Like its highly regarded predecessor, this expanded third edition is written in a reader-friendly style, featuring a wealth of newly enhanced graphics, examples, exercises, and data. Its international focus offers updated, substantive discussion of long-term trends and projections, along with newly emerging topics of interest to demographers. End-of-chapter exercises and propositions for debate bring demography alive for readers and emphasize demography’s relevance and importance in the twenty-first century.
 

$44.95 list, 424 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-488-4

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-488-8

© 2007

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Demography Defined / Current Population Size and Composition / Population Change / Population Problems

2. Demographic Data

Population Censuses / Evolution of the U.S. Census / Registration and Vital Statistics / Sample Surveys / Demographic Estimation

3. Population Growth

A History of Global Population Growth / Classifying Countries / The Prototypical European Demographic Transition / Differential Growth, 1950 to 2050 / Problems of a Changing World Distribution / Problems of Population Size / Problems of Growth Rates

4. Age and Sex Structure

Describing Age-Sex Structure / Contrasts Between More-Developed and Less-Developed Countries / How Structure Affects the Population Processes / How the Population Processes Determine Structure / Problems of Young Populations in the LDRs / Problems of Old Populations in the MDRs / Problems of Fluctuations in Cohort Size in the MDRs

5. Mortality

Measuring Mortality Via Life Expectancy / Historical Mortality Transitions / Mortality Declines in the Less-Developed Regions / Sex Differences in Mortality in the More-Developed Regions / Problems of Mortality

6. Morbidity and Health

Why Demographers Study Morbidity / Morbidity and Mortality in the Epidemiological Transition / Modern Morbidity Data / Measuring Morbidity / Morbidity Problems: Costs of Lost Life and Health / Morbidity Problems: Risk Factors

7. Fertility

European Fertility Transitions / Measuring Period Fertility / Recent Fertility Declines / Explaining Period Fertility Changes: The U.S. Case / Explaining Cohort Fertility / Intercourse Variables / Conception Variables / Gestation Variables / Fertility “Problems” / Family-Planning Programs in the Less-Developed Regions

8. Marriage and Householding

Definition and Measurement / World Variations in First Marriage / Marital Dissolution Trends in the United States / Family Life Course Trends in the United States / Which Marital Trends Are Problems?

9. Migration

What Is Migration? / Data Sources / International Migration / Internal Migration: The U.S. Case / Determinants of Migration / Migration Problems and Policies / Immigration Policy: The U.S. Case

10. Urbanization

World Urbanization: Past, Present, and Future / Urbanization “Problems” and Policies in the Less-Developed Regions / Urbanization “Problems” in the More-Developed Regions

11. Population Diversity

Demographic Terminology / The Demography of U.S. Ethnic Groups / Problems and Policies

Glossary