53:30794 Associacao
Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais [ABEP] (Sao Paulo,
Brazil). Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on
Population Studies, Aguas de Sao Pedro, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October
12-16, 1986. [Anais do V encontro nacional de estudos
populacionais, Aguas de Sao Pedro-SP, 12 a 16 de Outubro de 1986.]
1986. xvi, 1,158 pp. Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Por.
This two-volume set
contains the proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Population
Studies held in Brazil in 1986. Sessions are included on socioeconomic
and demographic processes in historical perspective, including slavery,
land and population, and research in progress; sexuality and
reproduction; fertility and mortality; spatial mobility; labor force;
population policy; and methods of demographic analysis, including the
estimation of mortality and fertility, the evaluation and correction of
inadequate data, and estimation of migration. Other sessions were
devoted to vital statistics in Brazil, population information systems,
population projection methodology, and contributed
papers.
Publisher's address: Av. Casper Libero 464, 11o andar,
01033 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
53:30795 Associacao
Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais [ABEP] (Sao Paulo,
Brazil). Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on
Population Studies, Aguas de Sao Pedro, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1984.
[Anais Quarto Encontro Nacional Estudos Populacionais, aguas de Sao
Pedro-SP, Brasil, 1984.] 1984. 2,400 pp. Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Por.
These are the proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on
Population Studies, held in Brazil in 1984. They are in four volumes
and contain the text of the papers presented as well as summaries of
the discussions. This abstract is based on the contents of Volumes 2
through 4 only. They contain sessions on health and population,
techniques of demographic analysis, population trends in a crisis
situation, spatial distribution and urbanization, regional demographic
differences and their determinants, and socioeconomic processes and
demography in a historical perspective.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
53:30796 Benin.
Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique
(Cotonou, Benin). National seminar on the dissemination of
the results of national demographic surveys undertaken in Benin between
1979 and 1983, Cotonou, September 1-4, 1986: a report on the
seminar. [Seminaire national de dissemination des resultats des
enquetes nationales demographiques realisees au Benin entre 1979 et
1983, Cotonou, 1-4 septembre 1986: rapport du seminaire.] [1986?]. 186
pp. Cotonou, Benin. In Fre.
These are the proceedings of a seminar
designed to disseminate results of the 1979 census of Benin and two
subsequent national demographic surveys. Separate consideration is
given to the methodology of the census and surveys, economic activity
and employment, nuptiality and fertility, households and housing,
population projections, and economic development and population
dynamics.
Publisher's address: B.P. 323, Cotonou,
Benin.
Location: University of Pennsylvania, Demography
Library, Philadelphia, PA.
53:30797 Bidegain
Greising, Gabriel. The current status of population
studies in Venezuela: the first national meeting of demographers and
students of population, Caracas, September 24-26, 1986. [Estado
actual de los estudios de la poblacion en Venezuela: primer encuentro
nacional de demografos y estudiosos en poblacion, Caracas, del 24 al 26
de septiembre de 1986.] ISBN 960-6077-21-0. Jun 1987. 213 pp. Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales [ILDIS]: Caracas,
Venezuela; Universidad Catolica Andres Bello: Caracas, Venezuela. In
Spa.
This collection of studies on various aspects of the
population of Venezuela is a product of the first national population
conference held in Caracas in 1986. The primary objective of the
conference was to present a state-of-the-art report on population
studies in Venezuela. Papers are included on the quality of
demographic data available in Venezuela, internal migration,
immigration, fertility, mortality, the labor force, employment and
unemployment, and population policy.
Location: New York
Public Library.
53:30798 Columbia
University. Center for Population and Family Health [CPFH] (New York,
New York); Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (Harare,
Zimbabwe). Proceedings of a conference on community-based
distribution and alternative delivery systems in Africa, Harare,
Zimbabwe, November 3-7, 1986. [1987?]. vi, 136 pp. New York, New
York. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of a conference on
community-based programs and alternative delivery systems for family
planning services in Africa, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1986. A
selection of papers by various authors is included, describing
developments in this area in Africa during the past five years.
For
a summary report of this conference by Lynn Landman, published in 1987,
see elsewhere in this issue.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
