55:20766 American
Statistical Association (Washington, D.C.). American
Statistical Association, 1986 proceedings of the Social Statistics
Section. [1986]. viii, 426 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
These
are the papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Statistical Association, held in Chicago, Illinois, August 18-21, 1986,
under the sponsorship of the Social Statistics Section. The papers are
organized under 19 topic categories, including comparability issues in
state-level statistics; the decision to delay child-bearing; statistics
in public policy analysis; planning for the U.S. census of 1990;
socioeconomic issues; health-related statistics; international
demographic analyses; and demographic issues in the 1980s. The primary
geographical focus is on the United States, with some attention given
to the situation worldwide.
Selected items will be cited in this or
subsequent issues of Population Index.
Correspondence:
American Statistical Association, 1429 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA
22314-3402. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:20767
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
[IUSSP] (Liege, Belgium); Union for African Population Studies [UAPS]
(Dakar, Senegal); Senegal. Direction de la Statistique (Dakar,
Senegal). African Population Conference, Dakar, Senegal,
November 7-12, 1988. [Congres Africain de Population, Dakar,
Senegal, novembre 7-12, 1988.] Vol. 2, ISBN 2-87108-012-7. 1988. xiii,
[593] pp. Liege, Belgium. In Eng; Fre.
This is the second of a
three-volume set containing the papers presented at a November 1988
conference on African population issues. The conference, which was
held in Dakar, Senegal, was sponsored by the International Union for
Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) in cooperation with the Union
for African Population Studies (UAPS) and the Central Statistical
Office of Senegal. The present volume is divided into three chapters,
with papers in English or French. The first chapter is concerned with
mortality, the second with migration, and the third with nuptiality and
the family.
Selected items will be cited in this or subsequent
issues of Population Index.
For Volume 1, also published in 1988,
see 55:10771.
Correspondence: IUSSP, 34 rue des Augustins,
4000 Liege, Belgium. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
55:20768 Levy,
Michel L. The European child. [L'enfant europeen.]
Population et Societes, No. 234, Apr 1989. [4] pp. Institut National
d'Etudes Demographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In Fre.
This report
concerns a conference on the Child and Its Future in Europe, held in
Monte Carlo, March 3-5, 1989. The main themes discussed were fertility
trends, births, and the child in the
family.
Correspondence: INED, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675
Paris Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
55:20769 Padmanabha,
P.; Cho, Lee Jay; Retherford, Robert D. Recent population
trends in South Asia: proceedings of the conference, New Delhi
1983. 1987. iii, 394 pp. Controller of Publications: New Delhi,
India. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of a conference on recent
population trends in the countries of South Asia, held in New Delhi,
India, February 2-8, 1983. The 27 papers are divided into six
sessions, which are concerned with the census, vital statistics, and
other demographic data sources; demographic variables, including the
estimation of infant and child mortality and fertility in India,
fertility estimation in Sri Lanka, parity progression and birth
interval analysis, censored cohort parity program ratios from birth
histories, fertility differentials in Pakistan, and demographic trends
in India; migration, primarily internal and including rural-urban
migration; the labor force; nuptiality, family planning, and population
policy; and the relationship between landholding and agricultural
development on the one hand, and demographic factors, including
fertility, on the other.
Location: East-West Population
Institute, Honolulu, HI.
55:20770 Perez
Aparicio, Carme. Studies on the population of the Valencia
region. [Estudis sobre la poblacio del Pais Valencia.] ISBN
84-404-1358-0. LC 88-159405. 1988. xxiii, 1,142 pp. Institucio
Valenciana d'Estudis i Investigacio: Valencia, Spain; Institut
d'Estudis Juan Gil-Albert: Valencia, Spain. In Spa; Cat.
These two
volumes are the proceedings of a conference that took place in Valencia
and Alicante, Spain, March 20-22, 1986 on the demography of the region
of Valencia. The 70 papers, which are in Catalan or Castilian Spanish,
are presented under the general headings of data sources and methods,
the roots of growth of the Valencian population, the demographic
transition in Valencia, and recent developments in the Valencian
population. Two roundtables are also included on the Spanish
population in the eighteenth century and the socioeconomic consequences
of the fertility decline and of demographic
aging.
Correspondence: Universidad de Valencia, Facultad de
Geografia y Historia, Nave 2, 46003, Valencia, Spain.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:20771 Vanderlin,
Jane; Barrows, William. Health and population information
as APLIC comes of age. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual
Conference, Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and
Information Centers--International. LC 89-415. 1988. 112 pp.
Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information
Centers--International [APLIC]: New York, New York. In Eng.
These
are the proceedings of the twenty-first annual APLIC conference, held
in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19-21, 1988. Topics covered include
cultural and social forces and their impact on sociological theory and
information, trends in funding for population activities, evaluation of
low-cost library software, sexually-transmitted disease information
sources, an update on demographic and family health databases, new
directions in NCHS surveys and statistical programs, and the
development of population libraries in China and Africa. Information
is also provided on APLIC members and their
addresses.
Correspondence: APLIC, c/o Population Council
Library, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
