55:30779 American
Statistical Association (Alexandria, Virginia). American
Statistical Association, 1987 proceedings of the Social Statistics
Section. [1987]. xi, 587 pp. Alexandria, Virginia. In Eng.
These are the papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Statistical Association, held in San Francisco, California,
August 17-20, 1987, under the sponsorship of the Social Statistics
Section. The papers are organized under 18 categories, including the
1990 census undercount and adjustment; topics in statistical modeling;
measurement error in social surveys; analysis of data from the U.S.
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); statistical research
on public policy issues; data and methods for the analysis of
mortality; forecasting, projection, and census-taking; data analysis
and inference; and research on fertility processes.
Selected items
will be cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: American Statistical Association,
1429 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
55:30780 Bertelsen,
Ole; Liebach, Birgitte. The Eighth Nordic Demographic
Symposium, June 1986, Gilleleje, Denmark. Scandinavian Population
Studies, No. 8, 1988. 346 pp. Nordic Demographic Society: Copenhagen,
Denmark. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of the eighth symposium
of the Nordic Demographic Society, an organization that links the
national demographic societies of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
The contributed papers are grouped under the general headings of
fertility, recent demographic methods, register data, regional
planning, and mortality. "The papers presented at the symposium...show
a trend in the Nordic countries towards research based on registers.
This presents the demographic researcher with a challenge, as the
registers pose numerous methodological questions to be solved, such as
linking data from different sources, bias problems, [and] selection of
strategic variables from the enormous amount of data being compiled in
registers mainly for administrative
purposes."
Correspondence: Nordic Demographic Society,
Central Bureau of Statistics, P.B. 8131 Dep, 0033 Oslo 1, Norway.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
55:30781
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. 3, ISBN 2-87108-013-5. 1988. xiii,
[540] pp. Liege, Belgium. In Eng; Fre.
This is the third 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
the Scientific Study of Population in cooperation with the Union for
African Population Studies 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
economic demography, the second with methodology, and the third with
population policy in Africa.
For Volumes 1 and 2, also published in
1988, see 55:10771 and 55:20767.
Correspondence: IUSSP, 34
rue des Augustins, 4000 Liege, Belgium. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
55:30782 Mauritania.
Direction de la Statistique et de la Comptabilite Nationale. Centre
d'Etudes Demographiques et Sociales [CEDS] (Nouakchott,
Mauritania). Women and development in Mauritania:
proceedings of a national seminar organized by the Center for
Demographic and Social Studies (CEDS) in Nouakchott, January 25-31,
1988. [Femmes et developpement en Mauritanie: actes du seminaire
national organise par le Centre d'Etudes Demographiques et Sociales
(CEDS) a Nouakchott du 25 au 31 janvier 1988.] Les Seminaires du CEDES,
No. 2, [1988?]. 266, 50 pp. Nouakchott, Mauritania. In Fre. with sum.
in Ara.
These are the proceedings of a 1988 conference held in
Mauritania on women and development. A section on the family includes
papers on the integration of family planning into maternal and child
health, socioeconomic factors affecting nuptiality, the characteristics
of fertility at young ages, and the characteristics of female heads of
households among the settled population.
Location: New York
Public Library.
55:30783 Sudan.
National Population Committee (Khartoum, Sudan).
Population and development in the Sudan: the quest for a national
policy. Proceedings of the Third National Population Conference,
October 10-15, 1987, Khartoum. 1988. xiv, 194 pp. JPA: Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of the
Third National Population Conference, held in Khartoum, Sudan, October
10-15, 1987. The 16 papers are organized into four parts, with a
general emphasis on the development of an appropriate population
policy. The first part, on sectoral planning issues, contains papers
on the relationship between population and agricultural development,
the environment, employment, educational planning, and planning for
basic needs. The second part, on health and family welfare, contains
papers on child survival strategy, safe motherhood, family planning,
female circumcision, and women's status. The third part is concerned
with migration, including internal migration, urban growth,
international migration, and refugees. The fourth and final part
presents the conference recommendations.
Correspondence:
JPA, 109 Ledge Lane, Chapel Hill, NC. Location: East-West
Population Institute, Honolulu, HI.
