58:30781 American
Statistical Association (Alexandria, Virginia). American
Statistical Association, 1991 proceedings of the Social Statistics
Section. [1991]. xi, 624 pp. Alexandria, Virginia. In Eng.
These are the papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Statistical Association, held in Atlanta, Georgia, August
18-22, 1991, under the sponsorship of the Social Statistics Section.
The papers are organized under 21 categories, including early results
from the 1990 census coverage evaluations; explorations in life table
and mortality analysis; imputation and weighting adjustment strategies;
the study of mortality in the United States and Western Europe; the
1990 census, undercount issues, and the post-enumeration survey;
estimates, projections, and predictions of social and demographic
characteristics; and topics in the modeling of fertility.
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).
58:30782 Birg,
Herwig; Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver. Demography
today--colloquium on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the
Institute for Population Research and Social Policy.
[Bevolkerungswissenschaft heute--Kolloquium anlasslich des 10jahrigen
Jubilaums des Instituts fur Bevolkerungsforschung und Sozialpolitik.]
IBS-Materialien, No. 33, ISBN 3-923340-27-3. 1992. 116 pp. Universitat
Bielefeld, Institut fur Bevolkerungsforschung und Sozialpolitik [IBS]:
Bielefeld, Germany. In Eng; Ger.
This publication contains papers
from a colloquium held in honor of the tenth anniversary of the
Institute for Population Research and Social Policy at the University
of Bielefeld, Germany. Papers are included on the uses of demography,
effects of population policy on fertility in Eastern Europe, the
historical analysis of family change, and changes in marriage patterns
in Western Europe. Three of the papers are in English.
Selected
items will be cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Universitat Bielefeld, Institut fur
Bevolkerungsforschung und Sozialpolitik, Universitatsstrasse, Postfach
8640, D-4800 Bielefeld 1, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:30783 Committee
for Economic Development (Washington, D.C.). The new
America: prospects for population and policy in the 21st century.
ISBN 0-87186-345-6. LC 89-25301. 1989. ii, 64 pp. Washington, D.C. In
Eng.
This is a report from a symposium held May 18, 1989, in
Washington, D.C., on U.S. population prospects for the twenty-first
century and their policy implications. It includes the four papers
presented, which are primarily concerned with the work force, human
resources, and employment issues; and a summary of the subsequent
discussions.
Correspondence: Committee for Economic
Development, 1700 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
58:30784 Council of
Europe (Strasbourg, France). Seminar on current
demographic trends and life-styles in Europe: proceedings of a seminar
held in Strasbourg, September 18-20, 1990. [Seminaire sur les
tendances demographiques actuelles et modes de vie en Europe: actes du
seminaire organise a Strasbourg du 18 au 20 septembre 1990.] ISBN
92-871-1944-9. 1991. iii, 459 pp. Strasbourg, France. In Fre.
These
are the proceedings of a seminar on current demographic trends in
Europe, held in September 1990. The 30 papers are grouped under six
topics: current population trends in Europe, the sociodemographic
consequences of changing household structures on children and the
young, changes in the structure of the population of working age,
demographic aging and changing life-styles, the future of households
and families, and changes in spatial
distribution.
Correspondence: Council of Europe,
Publications and Documents Division, F-67006 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
Location: Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, Paris,
France.
58:30785 Germany.
Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung (Wiesbaden, Germany).
Papers from the German-French working meeting in the field of
demography, May 29-June 1, 1990, in Saumur. [Referate zum
deutsch-franzosischen Arbeitstreffen auf dem Gebiet der Demographie vom
29. Mai bis 1. Juni 1990 in Saumur.] Materialien zur
Bevolkerungswissenschaft, No. 73, 1992. 170 pp. Wiesbaden, Germany. In
Eng; Fre; Ger.
This publication contains eight papers presented at
a German-French demographic conference held in Saumur, France, on May
29-June 1, 1990. Topics covered include current demographic trends in
West Germany, demographic life course data in West Germany, support
networks surrounding the future elderly in Canada in light of current
fertility and marriage trends, foreign migration to West Germany,
mortality and changes in socioeconomic status in France, the
information campaign concerning the 1990 French census, unmarried
persons in West Germany, and fertility in France by women's marital
status at conception and birth. Six papers are in English, one is in
French, and one is in German.
Correspondence:
Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 6,
Postfach 5528, D-6200 Wiesbaden, Germany. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
58:30786 United
Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
[ESCAP] (Bangkok, Thailand). Report of the Asia-Pacific
POPIN Consultative Workshop: 29 September-4 October 1990, New Delhi,
India. Asian Population Studies Series, No. 105, Pub. Order No.
ST/ESCAP/1024. 1991. 44 pp. Bangkok, Thailand. In Eng.
"This
publication contains the report of the Workshop, which was organized by
ESCAP and hosted by India's National Institute of Health and Family
Welfare. Representatives from 14 countries [in Asia and Oceania]
participated in the Workshop; the report includes the country papers
presented at the Workshop. The meeting was organized to examine ways
and means to improve overall awareness of population issues, and the
prospects for using new information technology for processing and
disseminating population data and information, and for 'electronic
networking'".
Correspondence: U.N. Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Building,
Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
