52:30001 Song, Jian;
Yu, Jing-Yuan. Population control. 1985. vi, 308 pp.
Science Publishers: Beijing, China. In Chi.
This is a general study
on aspects of population control. Subjects discussed include
mathematical models for population systems; population indicators,
including life expectancy, reproduction, aging, and fertility;
population trends; stable populations; population policy and
forecasting; and the ideal population structure. The primary
geographic focus is on China.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
52:30002 United
Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs.
Statistical Office (New York, New York). Demographic
yearbook, 1984. [Annuaire demographique, 1984.] 36th ed. No.
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.R14, Pub. Order No. E/F.85.XIII.1. ISBN 92-1-051066-6.
1986. ix, 1,150 pp. New York, New York. In Eng; Fre.
This annual
collection of international population statistics includes data on
approximately 220 countries or areas around the world. Data are
primarily from official national sources, supplemented in certain
instances by estimates prepared by the U.N. Population Division. "The
tables in the Yearbook are presented in two parts, the basic tables
followed by the tables devoted to population censuses, the special
topic in this issue. The first part contains tables giving a world
summary of basic demographic statistics, followed by tables presenting
statistics on the size, distribution and trends in population,
natality, foetal mortality, infant and maternal mortality, general
mortality, nuptiality and divorce."
The second part updates the
census information presented in the 1979 edition of this publication.
"The tables on economic characteristics show the economically active
population by age, sex, industry and occupation and status in
employment. The female economically active population is shown by
marital status and age, and the not economically active population by
functional categories. Data are shown by urban/rural residence in many
of the tables."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
52:30003 Urlanis, B.
Ts. Selections. [Izbrannoe.] LC 85-229540. 1985. 253
pp. Mysl': Moscow, USSR. In Rus.
This is a collection of essays,
addresses, and lectures by the late Boris Ts. Urlanis. It is divided
into two parts containing scholastic studies and journalistic works.
Topics covered include population growth in Europe, 300 years of
demography, how Russian demography started, life expectancy and change
by generation, and mortality differentials by
sex.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
52:30004 Villee,
Claude A. Fallout from the population explosion. An
ICUS Book, ISBN 0-89226-028-9. LC 85-12179. 1985. xvi, 263 pp. Paragon
House Publishers: New York, New York. In Eng.
This is a selection
of papers from the proceedings of the Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh
International Conferences on the Unity of the Sciences, together with
three papers written for this volume by the editor. The focus is on
the world population situation and its consequences. The first four
papers are concerned with current population trends. Two papers then
deal with health services and population control. Next, the
consequences of current population trends for natural resources and the
environment and for labor migration and international trade are
considered. A paper on financial and social disincentives follows,
based on the example of China's one-child policy.
Three papers are
included on technological and sociological aspects of global population
trends. A final section, under the general heading of the food supply
crisis, includes 10 papers that deal with population policies and with
the problems of demographic aging.
Location: Population
Council Library, New York, N.Y.
52:30005 Population
Crisis Committee (Washington, D.C.). The United Nations
Fund for Population Activities. Population, No. 17, Jul 1986. 4
pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
This briefing paper describes the
United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and its
activities.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30006 Artzrouni,
Marc. Generalized stable population theory. Journal
of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1985. 363-81 pp. Heidelberg,
Germany, Federal Republic of. In Eng.
"In generalizing stable
population theory we give sufficient, then necessary conditions under
which a population subject to time dependent vital rates reaches an
asymptotic stable exponential equilibrium (as if mortality and
fertility were constant)."
Location: U.S. National Library
of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
52:30007 Artzrouni,
Marc. On the dynamics of a population subject to slowly
changing vital rates. Mathematical Biosciences, Vol. 80, No. 2,
Aug 1986. 265-90 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"Approximate
closed-form expressions are given for the birth and death rates, the
age-specific growth rates, and age distribution of a population subject
to slowly changing vital rates. The slower these rates have changed in
the recent past, the better the approximations will be. These results,
which are reminiscent of stable population theory, are tested by
projecting the female population of the United States subject to
realistically changing levels of fertility."
The results show that
"the closed-form expressions yield quite accurate results and show that
the dynamics of a population subject to slowly changing vital rates are
to a large extent independent of the particular patterns of fertility.
As in stable population theory, the asymptotic behavior of such a
population is essentially determined by current survival rates and
recent values of the intrinsic growth rate."
Location:
Princeton University Library (SM).
52:30008 Handwerker,
W. Penn. The modern demographic transition: an analysis
of subsistence choices and reproductive consequences. American
Anthropologist, Vol. 88, No. 2, Jun 1986. 400-17 pp. Washington, D.C.
In Eng.
"This paper argues that fertility transition comes about
when personal material well-being is determined less by personal
relationships than by formal education and skill training. This
transformation occurs when changes in opportunity structure and the
labor market increasingly reward educationally acquired skills and
perspectives, for these changes have the effect of sharply limiting or
eliminating the expected intergenerational income flows from or through
children."
"This modification and extension of Caldwell's wealth
flows model permits us to account for historical-, regional-, and
social-class-specific differences in the onset and pace of fertility
transition, and points to new, macro-level socioeconomic indicators
whose ability to account for historical variation in fertility is
validated by a preliminary test."
Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
52:30009 Hofstee, E.
W. The modernisation of the demographic pattern: the case
of the Netherlands. Bevolking en Gezin, No. 3, Dec 1985. 213-28
pp. Brussels, Belgium. In Eng.
"The author criticizes the concept
of demographic transition because it fails to give an adequate
understanding of changes in the demographic structure of Western Europe
in the 19th and 20th century. He hypothesizes that modern birth
control was an innovation made possible by the rise of the modern
pattern of culture. The slow decrease in marital fertility and the slow
increase in the proportion of women married in the reproductive age
groups in the Netherlands are analyzed separately."
Particular
attention is given to the impact of the Catholic practice of
confessionalism. The concept of asymmetric tolerance is developed to
explain differential fertility by religion. Such a concept is defined
as a situation in which tolerance levels for the dominant group in a
society are different from those for the dominated
groups.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30010 Liu, Zheng;
Li, Jingneng. Population theory manual. 1985. 511 pp.
Chinese People's University: Beijing, China. In Chi.
This is a
basic manual on population theory. Topics covered include human
reproduction; population quality; population structure; population
laws; population distribution and migration; economic aspects;
marriage, family, and reproduction; population and ecology; population
policy; population planning; and various Marxist population theories.
The primary geographic focus is on China.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30011 Meir,
Avinoam. Demographic transition theory: a neglected
aspect of the nomadism-sedentarism continuum. Institute of British
Geographers: Transactions, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1986. 199-211 pp. London,
England. In Eng.
The changes in mode of production associated with
the change from the nomadic to the sedentary way of life are explored,
with particular reference to their demographic consequences. "An
adaptation of demographic transition theory to the nomadism-sedentarism
continuum is proposed by treating demographic change as transition
between demographic regimes associated with specific modes of
production and suggesting that fertility increases and later declines,
and mortality decreases along the continuum. Rising fertility during
sedentarization is assumed to be a consequence of both social
modernization and economic growth, which complement conventional
theoretical statements."
The data are from a number of African
countries, together with a case study from Israel. They "suggest that
birth rates do increase along the continuum but their decline at
post-sedentarization, although possible, will depend on trends in the
general rural sector. In several cases, mortality rates of
sedentarizing nomads have been found to be higher than for nomads,
suggesting deficient public health measures. Nevertheless, natural
increase rates of sedentarizing nomads are considerably higher than
those of pastoral nomads. This adaptation may help to achieve the
goals of filling a gap in demographic transition theory and providing a
conceptual framework for future research of more detailed and specific
case studies."
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
52:30012 Ng,
Yew-Kwang. On the welfare economics of population
control. Population and Development Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, Jun
1986. 247-66, 377-8 pp. New York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in Fre;
Spa.
"In the absence of gross ignorance and external costs,
allowing free choice of families to have more children is a Pareto
improvement and bestows external benefits on the additional people and
on existing people through reduced per capita costs of public goods,
increased range of choice, and faster advancement in knowledge.
Popular arguments for population control (congestion, limitation of
resources, unemployment, the isolation paradox, and the like) are shown
to be invalid, insignificant, or calling only for pricing
efficiency."
It is concluded that "the provision of birth control
information and medical and educational charges for additional children
may be warranted, but welfare economics provides no support for
measures to limit population."
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
52:30013 Parsons,
Jack. Human competitive breeding. Social Biology and
Human Affairs, Vol. 49, No. 1, 1984. 1-22 pp. London, England. In Eng.
The author discusses the concept of population competition and the
resultant positive and negative strategies used by groups to maintain
or enhance their relative size. He provides historical examples of
pro-natalism and competitive breeding and also discusses the
association between various sociopolitical systems and pro-natalism.
Attitudes toward population growth in various regions of the world are
outlined. In conclusion, the author summarizes the major premises of
the competitive breeding argument and considers whether these ideas and
related strategies have any effect on reproductive
behavior.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30014 Riley,
James C. Population thought in the age of the demographic
revolution. ISBN 0-89089-257-1. LC 83-70312. 1985. xvii, 225 pp.
Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina. In Eng.
The
development of population theory in the eighteenth century is examined.
Rather than describing the succession of ideas concerning population
growth, the author attempts to describe and analyze the framework of
assumptions, ideas, and areas of interest within which an understanding
of population issues was sought. This approach involves consideration
of a wide number of topics, including "probability theory and
mathematical expectation, the vital statistics of man and man's
environment, epidemic disease, government finance, social welfare
projects, and insurance as well as...population thought and
experience."
Particular attention is given to the way
eighteenth-century thinkers tackled the analysis of the causes of
population growth given the different experiences of individual
countries. The emphasis of the study is on the development of thought
in the period and its implications, rather than on the demographic
developments themselves.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
52:30015 Russell,
Claire; Russell, W. M. S. Overpopulation crisis.
Social Biology and Human Affairs, Vol. 49, No. 1, 1984. 23-42 pp.
London, England. In Eng.
The authors review research on violence
among animals as a check on population, with some discussion of
possible applications to theories of human population growth. A brief
discussion of human population crises and cycles is
included.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30016 Scardovi,
Italo. Demography and biology: marginal notes.
[Demografia e biologia: annotazioni marginali.] Genus, Vol. 41, No.
3-4, Jul-Dec 1985. 107-13 pp. Rome, Italy. In Ita. with sum. in Fre;
Eng.
The author examines the relationship between demography and
biology in the context of recent conference proceedings edited by
Nathan Keyfitz entitled "Population and biology." The need to
reconsider some basic conceptions of these sciences and their natural
and social relevance is suggested.
For the study edited by Keyfitz,
published in 1984, see 51:10021.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
52:30017 Serow,
William J. Regional science and applied demography: ever
the twain should meet. Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1,
Winter 1983. 1-3 pp. Clemson, South Carolina. In Eng.
The author
makes the case for a closer relationship between regional science and
applied demography. He finds a common interest in both disciplines in
the application of basically empirical methods of analysis toward the
solution of practical problems. This was the Presidential Address to
the 1983 annual meeting of the Southern Regional Science
Association.
Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
52:30018 Barrere,
Bernard. Demography. [Demographie.] Oct 1984. 182 pp.
Universite d'Abidjan, Faculte des Sciences Economiques: Abidjan, Ivory
Coast. In Fre.
This textbook on demography is designed for
undergraduates taking their first year in economics. The geographic
focus is worldwide, but extensive use is made of examples from the
Ivory Coast. The book is divided into two parts. The first deals with
sources of data, including censuses, vital statistics, and surveys. The
second is concerned with the methods of demographic
analysis.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30019 Clark, W.
A. V. Human migration. Scientific Geography Series,
Vol. 7, ISBN 0-8039-2739-8. LC 85-62429. 1986. 96 pp. Sage
Publications: Beverly Hills, California/London, England. In Eng.
This book is designed as an introductory textbook to the study of
human migration. The first chapter is concerned with definitions,
rates, and data. Chapters are then presented on residential mobility,
regional migration, and international migration. Examples from many
regions of the world are presented to support the theories
outlined.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30020 Minguzzi,
Assunta. An introduction to demography. [Initiation a
la demographie.] ISBN 88-371-0276-3. 1983. 204 pp. Pitagora Editrice:
Bologna, Italy. In Fre.
This is a general introduction to the study
of demography, with a focus on the demography of France and Italy. The
sources of population data are first described. Sections are included
on the distribution of the world's population; age and sex
distribution; and the labor force, mortality, fertility, international
migration, and the family in France and Italy.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
52:30021 Stetsenko,
S. G.; Kozachenko, I. V. Demographic statistics.
[Demograficheskaya statistika.] LC 85-119046. 1984. 407 pp. Golovnoe
Izdatel'stvo Izdatel'skogo Ob''edineniya Vishcha Shkola: Kiev, USSR. In
Ukr.
This textbook outlines a system of statistical methods for
investigating the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of
population. It deals with the general theory of demographic methods
and with methods of analyzing births, mortality, nuptiality, and
modeling various processes of population change. Significant space is
devoted to censuses, vital statistics, and sample surveys. The primary
geographic focus is on the USSR.
Location: U.S. Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
52:30022 Weeks, John
R. Population: an introduction to concepts and
issues. 3rd ed. ISBN 0-534-06138-9. LC 85-26396. 1986. xviii, 525
pp. Wadsworth Publishing: Belmont, California. In Eng.
This is the
third edition of this secondary school textbook on demography. It is
organized into five sections. The first section introduces the
concepts of demography and the current world population situation. The
second describes the basic demographic variables of fertility,
mortality, and migration. The third section deals with population
characteristics, including age and sex distribution, occupations,
income, marital status, race and ethnicity, and religion. The fourth
section is concerned with the relationship between population and such
issues as women and the family, aging, urbanization, economic
development, and food supply.
The fifth section considers population
policy issues and the concept of demographics. The life table and net
reproduction rate are dealt with in an appendix. The geographic focus
is on both the United States and the world.
For the second edition,
published in 1978, see 44:3039.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
