Author : William Petersen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412824087
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Book Synopsis From Birth to Death by : William Petersen
Download or read book From Birth to Death written by William Petersen and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demography is a measurement for the study of human populations, especially with reference to sie, density, distribution, and vital statistics. From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the Bureau of the Census, and of the errors and other flaws typically found in such data. Petersen has here built a body of material garnered from his extensive command of demography and also from relevant works on archaeology, anthropology, economics, and sociology, incorporating it into an up-to-date discussion of current problems. In the volume's opening chapter, Petersen sets out the fundamentals of demography and reviews the current proposal to use sampling in the next census. In his discussion on age and sex structure, he cites a number of historical examples of how ignoring this fundamental element led to false conclusions. A principal topic of this book is the relative accuracy of population statistics, the degree to which one should accept the data as published. The main focus is on the United States and especially on the Bureau of the Census, but general points are sometimes illustrated with examples of how data of other countries should be evaluated. Not only demographers and statisticians but also anyone interested in public policy and its statistical underpinning will find this work both interesting and useful.