54:30800 Conning,
Arthur; Silva, Ari. Microcomputer access to geographically
disaggregated population and housing census data for migration studies
via the REDATAM system. [Acceso a traves de microcomputadores a
datos censales de poblacion y vivienda geograficamente desagregados
para estudios de migracion usando el sistema REDATAM.] Revista del CIM
sobre Migraciones en America Latina/ICM Latin American Migration
Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Apr 1988. 7-34 pp. Santiago, Chile. In Eng;
Spa.
The authors describe "the interactive, user friendly, REDATAM
system [that] was created to solve the problem of providing small-area
population and housing census information by using a microcomputer to
store the microdata (the values of each variable of each individual) of
an entire census, thereby permitting any set of variables to be
tabulated for any area often down to city blocks or smaller."
Particular attention is paid to the system's suitability for handling
migration data. "Facilities offered by the system, include geographic
selection, grouping of geographic areas, self-documented databases,
interactive and batch processing, calculation of derived variables,
hierarchical processing, generation of sub-databases, use of weighting
factors, production of files for export to other packages, storage of
results and password protection." The focus is on REDATAM databases
available for Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Correspondence: A. Conning, CELADE, Casilla 91,
Santiago, Chile. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
54:30801 Field, Niel
C. Modeling demographic change: a versatile population
projection package for the microcomputer. Operational
Geographer/Geographie Appliquee, No. 10, 1986. 35-9 pp. Montreal,
Canada. In Eng.
The author describes a software package developed
for demographic analysis on microcomputers. "It is a single-region
cohort survival model based on 5-year age-sex groups and 5-year
projection intervals. The program operates with user-supplied data
inputs in the form of initial age-sex specific fertility rates,
mortality rates and net migration values. Through a system of
coefficients the user can schedule changes in the three growth factors
(fertility, mortality, and net migration) in any or all of the 5-year
projection intervals." Directions for program use and availability are
included.
Correspondence: N. C. Field, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada. Location:
University of Iowa Library, Ames, IA.
54:30802 National
Research Council. Committee on Population. Commission on Behavioral and
Social Sciences and Education (Washington, D.C.).
Microcomputer software for population and development planning:
proceedings of a workshop. 1988. xiii, 34 pp. National Academy
Press: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"This report is a brief overview of
a workshop on microcomputer-based software for population and
development planning sponsored by the Committee on Population. The
workshop, held February 10-13, 1987, at the National Academy of
Sciences, was an attempt to provide a forum for producers and users of
population-related software to review the available programs....This
report does not attempt to assess in any detailed way the underlying
demographic, statistical or programming strengths and weaknesses of the
various programs, nor does it document all the exchanges that took
place. It does, however, present an inventory of available software
packages for analyses of demographic processes and the interrelation of
those processes with economic development. The packages reviewed are
categorized as demographic, sectoral, training, and multipurpose
models. The report also gives a sense of the range of issues that were
discussed, including ways to improve future software
evaluation."
Correspondence: Committee on Population,
National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
D.C. 20418. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
54:30803 United
Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs (New
York, New York). MortPak--the United Nations software
package for mortality measurement. Batch-oriented software for the
mainframe computer. No. ST/ESA/SER.R/78, 1988. vii, 264 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng.
"The present volume contains the working
manual for MORTPAK, a software package for demographic measurement in
developing countries, with special emphasis on mortality measurement.
MORTPAK includes 16 applications in the areas of life-table and
stable-population construction, graduation of mortality data, indirect
mortality estimation, indirect fertility estimation, and other indirect
procedures for evaluating age distributions and the completeness of
censuses. The package incorporates developed techniques that take
advantage of the United Nations model life tables and generalized
stable-population equations. The present document is one of two
produced by the United Nations providing such software. It contains a
batch-oriented interface which is designed for mainframe computer users
but which nevertheless is easily installed on a microcomputer."
For
a related manual presenting software and data entry for microcomputers,
see 54:20928.
Correspondence: Director, Population
Division, United Nations, New York, NY 10017. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
