62:10783 American
Statistical Association [ASA] (Alexandria, Virginia). 1994
proceedings of the Social Statistics Section. ISBN 1-883276-09-8.
[1995?]. vii, 263 pp. Alexandria, Virginia. In Eng.
These
proceedings include papers presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the
American Statistical Association, held in Toronto, Canada, August
13-18, 1994. Sessions organized under the auspices of the Social
Statistics Section examined such issues as immigration, the estimation
and projection of demographic and social characteristics, and the
empirical investigation of labor force problems.
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).
62:10784 American
Statistical Association [ASA] (Alexandria, Virginia).
American Statistical Association, 1992 proceedings of the Social
Statistics Section. [1992]. viii, 331 pp. Alexandria, Virginia. In
Eng.
These are the proceedings of meetings sponsored by the Social
Statistics Secretariat at the annual convention of the American
Statistical Association, held in Boston, Massachusetts, August 9-13,
1992. The papers are organized under 15 topics, which include changing
gender roles, sources of data, the determinants of health status,
census data on race and ethnicity, the homeless, labor force and the
quality of SIPP [Survey of Income and Program Participation] data,
income and poverty, new statistical applications of social research,
modeling cause and effect, traffic safety, the impact of socioeconomic
status on health, techniques of demographic analysis, improving health
with statistics, statistics and human rights, and
education.
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).
62:10785 Asociacion
Brasileira de Estudios de Poblacion [ABEP] (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil);
United Nations. Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia [CELADE]
(Santiago, Chile); International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population [IUSSP] (Liege, Belgium); Programa Latinoamericano de
Actividades en Poblacion [PROLAP] (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Sociedad
Mexicana de Demografia [SOMEDE] (Mexico City, Mexico).
Fourth Latin American Population Conference: the Demographic
Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean. [IV Conferencia
Latinoamericana de Poblacion: la Transicion Demografica en America
Latina y el Caribe.] 1994. 1,133; 945 pp. Instituto Nacional de
Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica [INEGI]: Aguascalientes, Mexico;
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones
Sociales: Mexico City, Mexico. In Spa; Por.
These are the
proceedings of a conference held in Mexico City, March 23-26, 1993.
They are in two volumes, with the first volume published in two
separate parts. The first part of Volume 1 includes the papers
presented at the plenary sessions, which concern various aspects of the
demographic transition in Latin America. The second part of Volume 1
contains a selection of papers from the parallel sessions held at the
conference. The second volume includes the remaining papers from the
parallel sessions. Most of the papers are in Spanish, with some in
Portuguese. The geographical focus is on Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Correspondence: Instituto Nacional de
Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica, Avenida Heroe de Nacozari Num.
2301 Sur, Acceso 11, P.B. Fracc. Jardines del Parque, C.P. 20270,
Aguascalientes, Mexico. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10786 Hohn,
Charlotte. The path to and from Cairo. [Der Weg nach
und von Kairo.] Zeitschrift fur Bevolkerungswissenschaft, Vol. 20, No.
1, 1995. 3-26 pp. Wiesbaden, Germany. In Ger. with sum. in Eng; Fre.
"This contribution first attempts to cast some light on the history
of the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994
(ICPD) from the demographic point of view....Then the determinants of
the fertility decline slowly starting in third world countries are
discussed....The International Conference on Population in Mexico City
in 1984 and its main topics are also dealt with. In another part of
this contribution, the ICPD, its conference topics and especially the
new Programme of Action adopted there
are...discussed."
Correspondence: C. Hohn, Bundesinstitut
fur Bevolkerungsforschung, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 6, Postfach 5528,
65180 Wiesbaden, Germany. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:10787 Johansson,
S. Ryan. Complexity, morality, and policy at the
Population Summit. Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No.
2, Jun 1995. 361-86 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The author
discusses the proposition that "values, norms, and rights are
fundamental to the management of human social systems because those
systems are complex....After summarizing some of the tenets of
complexity and their application to the social sciences, I consider
selected essays presented at the [1993 Population] Summit that
illustrate how some of these ideas seem to have been applied, both to
explain empirical data and to justify certain policy prescriptions in
explicitly ethical terms."
For a report on the Population Summit,
edited by Francis Graham-Smith, see 61:10001.
Correspondence: S. R. Johansson, Stanford University,
Department of History, Stanford, CA 94305-2024. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:10788 McIntosh,
C. Alison; Finkle, Jason L. The Cairo Conference on
Population and Development: a new paradigm? Population and
Development Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, Jun 1995. 223-60, 464-7 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"The United Nations
population conference held in Cairo in September 1994 departed in
several respects from its predecessors at Bucharest and Mexico City.
The end of the Cold War, the election of a liberal President in the
United States, and an unprecedented level of participation by
nongovernmental organizations contributed to a political environment in
which orthodox population policy was devalued. In its place, the
conference outlined a `new paradigm' in which the reduction of global
population growth was replaced by an individual-level model with
women's health, rights, status, and empowerment at its heart. The
authors argue that this result was primarily a consequence of an
extraordinarily effective campaign undertaken by the international
women's movement. The article analyzes the politics of the main
protagonists: the women's movement, the United States government, and
the Holy See. The authors conclude that there is a disjunction between
the political process that produced the Program of Action and the
strategies that will be required to mobilize the resources and
commitment for its implementation."
Correspondence: C. A.
McIntosh, University of Michigan, Center for Population Planning, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-2029. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10789 Mertens,
Walter. The 1994 International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD). Context and characteristics. IUSSP Policy
and Research Papers, No. 7, ISBN 2-87108-051-8. 1995. 35 pp.
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]:
Liege, Belgium. In Eng.
This volume contains a condensed overview
of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development,
held in Cairo, Egypt, in September. The focus is on the contributions
of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to
the conference.
Correspondence: International Union for the
Scientific Study of Population, 34 rue des Augustins, 4000 Liege,
Belgium. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:10790 Perlman,
Mark. The Population Summit: reflections on the world's
leading problems. Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No.
2, Jun 1995. 341-9 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The author
discusses some of the issues raised in papers presented at the 1993
Population Summit held in New Delhi, India.
For a report on the
Population Summit, edited by Francis Graham-Smith, see 61:10001.
Correspondence: M. Perlman, University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:10791 Rothschild,
Emma. Echoes of the Malthusian debate at the Population
Summit. Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, Jun
1995. 351-9 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
The author discusses
"the hypothesis of enlightened or environmental Malthusianism" as
expressed by contributors to the Population Summit, held in New Delhi,
India, in 1993.
For a report on the Population Summit, edited by
Francis Graham-Smith, see 61:10001.
Correspondence: E.
Rothschild, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10792 Tobias,
Michael. What did Cairo accomplish? Population and
Environment, Vol. 16, No. 6, Jul 1995. 539-42 pp. New York, New York.
In Eng.
The author critically examines the goals and
accomplishments of the 1994 International Conference on Population and
Development, held in Cairo, Egypt.
Correspondence: M.
Tobias, Population Education Committee, 11646 West Pico Boulevard, #23,
Los Angeles, CA 90064. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:10793 United
States. Bureau of the Census (Washington, D.C.). 1995
Annual Research Conference, March 19-21, 1995. Proceedings. Aug
1995. xii, 785 pp. Washington, D.C. In Eng.
These are the
proceedings of the 1995 Annual Research Conference sponsored by the
U.S. Census Bureau. "These conferences provide a forum for academic,
private sector, and government researchers from around the world to
discuss and exchange current research results and methods in areas
relevant to Census Bureau programs. The conferences also feature the
work of the ASA/NSF/Census Research Fellows." At this conference, there
were sessions on census design, response errors in longitudinal
surveys, administrative records in labor force surveys, imputation,
demographic issues and administrative records, modeling and estimation,
race and ethnicity, social issues, technology use in data collection
and analysis, small area estimation (two sessions), establishing
industrial classification codes, and statistics for measuring the
national economy.
Correspondence: U.S. Bureau of the
Census, Washington, D.C. 20233. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
