Studies concerned with the actual production of basic population data. Includes more than governmental publications.
Studies on the collection of general demographic statistics and related problems such as studies on data processing.
64:10770 Fernandez, Edward W.
Comparisons of selected social and economic characteristics between
Asians, Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians (including
Alaskan natives). Population Division Working Paper Series, No.
15, Jun 1996. ii, 25, [24] pp. U.S. Bureau of the Census: Washington,
D.C. In Eng.
"The U.S. government stipulates that federal
agencies collect and present information on the White, Black, Asian or
Pacific Islander, and American Indian race populations, and on the
Hispanic origin ethnic population. Recently, representatives of some of
these groups have suggested changes to this list. Persons of Hawaiian
race, for example, suggest that they either be: (1) classified uniquely
and separated from the Asian and Pacific Islander group, or (2) merged
with the American Indian population and classified in the group:
American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiians." The effects
of acting on these suggestions are explored in this paper.
This
paper was originally presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the
Population Association of America.
Correspondence: U.S.
Bureau of the Census, Population Division, Washington, D.C. 20233.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10771 Sink, Larry D. Race and
ethnicity classification consistency between the Census Bureau and the
National Center for Health Statistics. Population Division Working
Paper Series, No. 17, Feb 1997. [44] pp. U.S. Bureau of the Census:
Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"The method of demographic analysis
is applied to individual birth and death records obtained from the
[U.S.] National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to produce a series
of estimates of the population of age 0 at the time of the 1990 Census.
These estimates differ in the way that race or Hispanic origin is
assigned, and they are compared to the corresponding 1990 Census
figures to determine the degree of consistency between the race and
ethnicity classifications used by the two agencies and the effect on
this consistency of changing the rules by which race and Hispanic
origin are assigned. The principal findings are that assigning births
the race and Hispanic origin of the mother produces the greatest
consistency with Census results and that under this rule the agreement
between Census and NCHS on Hispanic origin is good and the agreement on
race is good except for a problem with American
Indians."
Correspondence: U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Population Division, Washington, D.C. 20233. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10772 Treml, Vladimir G.
Soviet and Russian statistics on alcohol consumption and
abuse. In: Premature death in the New Independent States, edited
by José L. Bobadilla, Christine A. Costello, and Faith Mitchell.
1997. 220-38 pp. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C. In Eng.
"The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and offer
analytical comments on the availability and reliability of official
government statistics on alcohol and related issues in the former
Soviet Union and contemporary Russia....The next two sections focus,
respectively, on statistics on alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse.
The fourth and fifth sections address two issues related to alcohol
abuse: the impact of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign and deaths from
alcohol poisoning. These issues, which remain controversial, illustrate
the problems involved in working with available Russian
statistics."
Correspondence: V. G. Treml, Duke
University, Department of Economics, Durham, NC 27706. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies of the organization and operation of vital statistics at local and national levels, of international comparability, and of special problems.
64:10773 Chen, Charles H. C.; Wang,
Qian. Analysis of the registration status of residents in
survey sample areas: 1992 National Fertility and Family Planning
Survey. In: 1992 National Fertility and Family Planning Survey,
China: selected research papers in English. Oct 1997. 129-37 pp. State
Family Planning Commission of China: Beijing, China; U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]: Atlanta, Georgia. In Eng.
The
authors evaluate the accuracy of the official Chinese household
registry in the early 1990s. "The 1992 national fertility and
family planning survey...provided the opportunity to analyze the
proportion of residents living in their registered household. Thus, we
are able to observe the extent to which the current residents were
listed in the registry so that the reliability and usefulness of using
the registry as a sampling frame may be determined for various
geographic areas and for different population
groups."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10774 Logrillo, Vito M. Role
of technology in the civil registration process. IIVRS Technical
Paper, No. 67, Jun 1997. iii, 6 pp. International Institute for Vital
Registration and Statistics [IIVRS]: Bethesda, Maryland. In Eng.
"A few decades ago countries introduced advancements in
technology to the civil registration process by adopting microforms for
the storage and retrieval of vital records. In more recent years there
have been numerous efforts to automate virtually every aspect of the
civil registration process, and important applications of new
technology have been introduced into the civil registration process in
both developed and developing countries. This paper presents a brief
overview of these developments."
Correspondence:
International Institute for Vital Registration and Statistics,
9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies of the organization and operation of population censuses and registers at local and national levels, of international comparability, and of special problems.
64:10775 Anderson, Margo; Fienberg, Stephen
E. Who counts? The politics of census taking.
Society, Vol. 34, No. 3, Mar-Apr 1997. 19-26 pp. New Brunswick, New
Jersey. In Eng.
"We will focus here on several issues. We
begin with a brief description of the role and functions of the [U.S.]
census. Then we discuss two very different worlds of decision making
about `counting', first with a review of the recent Supreme Court
decision in Wisconsin vs. New York, and second with a brief analysis of
the [Census Bureau's] current plans for 2000. We will conclude with a
bit of a roadmap of where we are heading for
2000."
Correspondence: M. Anderson, University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201. Location: Princeton University
Library (PR).
64:10776 Dahmann, Donald C.
Geographic categories of settlement and the 2000 census: a
challenge for geographers. Urban Geography, Vol. 18, No. 7,
Oct-Nov 1997. 565-7 pp. Palm Beach, Florida. In Eng.
The author
notes that the U.S. "Office of Management and Budget...is
currently reviewing the statistical standards used to delineate
metropolitan areas and the data categorizations for occupation and for
race and ethnicity. Changes, if any, will be implemented for the 2000
census." He stresses the importance of redefining the geographic
units of settlements for the United States and mentions four
independent investigations already completed on the subject. Finally,
he encourages geographers to provide their input directly to federal
decision makers.
Correspondence: D. C. Dahmann, 1914
Martha's Road, Alexandria, VA 22307. Location: Princeton
University Library (PR).
64:10777 Dale, Angela; Holdsworth,
Clare. Issues in the analysis of ethnicity in the 1991
British census: evidence from microdata. Ethnic and Racial
Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan 1997. 160-81 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"The 1991 British Census was the first to ask a question on
ethnic group. This Research note provides a brief review of the
development of the question and then uses the Samples of Anonymised
Records, also newly available in 1991, to explore the construction of
the ten ethnic groups derived by the Census Offices; the family and
household composition of the ten groups and the implications of this
construction for the analysis of ethnic
differences."
Correspondence: A. Dale, University of
Manchester, Department of Economic and Social Studies, Cathie Marsh
Centre for Census and Survey Research, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
64:10778 Dekker, Arij. Data
processing for demographic censuses and surveys: with special emphasis
on methods applicable to developing country environments. NIDI
Rapport, No. 51, ISBN 90-70990-67-9. 1997. [vi], 88 pp. Netherlands
Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute [NIDI]: The Hague, Netherlands;
United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA]: New York, New York. In Eng.
This publication is a result of cooperative efforts between NIDI
and UNFPA to develop innovative techniques for processing data from
censuses and surveys. The focus of the report is on practical aspects
of processing census data in developing country environments. There are
sections on: Planning, logistics, and management; Data processing
support for field activities; Coding; Data capture and operator
statistics; Computers and data editing; Tabulation methods; The
post-enumeration survey; Demographic databases; Dissemination methods;
Further uses of data from censuses and surveys; and Resource
requirements.
For a related publication, also published in 1997, see
63:30782.
Correspondence: Netherlands Interdisciplinary
Demographic Institute, Postbus 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, Netherlands.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10779 Fernandez, Edward W.
Using analytic techniques to evaluate the 1990 census coverage of
young Hispanics. Population Division Working Paper Series, No. 11,
May 1995. 13, [13] pp. U.S. Bureau of the Census: Washington, D.C. In
Eng.
The author uses data from the 1980 U.S. census and immigration
data for the decade 1980-1990 to estimate the size of the Hispanic
population in 1990. The completeness of census coverage for this
population group is then examined by calculating the difference between
this estimate and the actual census count.
Correspondence:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Population Division, Washington, D.C.
20233. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10780 Grigor'yants, M. A road
100 years long (100th anniversary of the 1897 population census of
Russia). [Doroga dlinoyu v sto let (K 100-letiyu pervoi
vseobshchei perepisi naseleniya Rossii 1897 goda).] Voprosy Statistiki,
No. 3, 1997. 3-13 pp. Moscow, Russia. In Rus.
This is a history of
census-taking in Russia and the Soviet Union over the past 100 years.
Particular attention is given to the contribution of P. P. Semenov to
the organization and methodology used in the earlier
censuses.
Correspondence: M. Grigor'yants, Rostovskaya
Ekonomicheskaya Akademiya, Ul. F. Engelsa 69, 344700 Rostov-on-Don,
Russia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10781 Isupov, A. The 1999
population census of Russia. [Perepis' naseleniya Rossii 1999
goda.] Voprosy Statistiki, No. 3, 1997. 21-9 pp. Moscow, Russia. In
Rus.
The author describes the planning process under way to carry
out the census of the Russian Federation scheduled for 1999. Some
attention is given to the lessons learned from the censuses of 1979 and
1989.
Correspondence: A. Isupov, Goskomstat Rossii, NII
Statistiki, Izmailovskoe Shosse 44, 105679 Moscow, Russia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10782 King, Miriam L.; Magnuson, Diana
L. Perspectives on historical U.S. census
undercounts. Social Science History, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 1995.
455-66 pp. Durham, North Carolina. In Eng.
"There are three
sources of information about undercounts in nineteenth-century U.S.
censuses: demographic analyses of net undercounts by age, sex, and race
at the national level; record-linkage studies of gross undercounts for
local communities; and contemporary testimony of the types and bases of
underenumeration. This article reviews the strengths and limitations of
each of these sources, assesses the extent of their agreement, and
discusses the bases of their disagreement."
Correspondence:
M. L. King, University of Michigan, Population Studies Center,
1225 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2590. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
64:10783 United Nations Statistical Commission
(New York, New York); United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe.
Conference of European Statisticians (Geneva, Switzerland); United
Nations. Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Human Settlements
(Geneva, Switzerland). Costing aspects of population and
housing censuses in selected countries in the UN/ECE region.
Statistical Standards and Studies, No. 46, Pub. Order No. E.96.II.E.15.
ISBN 92-1-016318-4. 1996. iii, 83 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
This report examines costing aspects of taking censuses, and is
based on case studies from four countries: France, Hungary, Sweden, and
the United Kingdom. "Having collated the case studies of the 4
participating countries and attempted to compare their costs for the
main phases of the census operation, the Group can only endorse the
comment of the [UN] Statistical Commission...as to the difficulty of
obtaining costs on a comparable basis across countries. The effects of
different accounting conventions as well as the different uses made of
resources at different levels of government and of resources from the
private sector, make it difficult to compile cost studies on the same
basis in each case."
Correspondence: UN Sales Section,
New York, NY 10017. Location: Princeton University Library
(UN).
64:10784 United States. Bureau of the Census.
Population Division. Special Population Statistics (Washington,
D.C.). Findings on questions on race and Hispanic origin
tested in the 1996 National Content Survey. Population Division
Working Paper Series, No. 16, Dec 1996. v, 22, [36] pp. Washington,
D.C. In Eng.
"This report presents preliminary results of
testing alternative versions of the questions on race and Hispanic
origin in the 1996 National Content Survey (NCS), conducted by the
Bureau of the Census as part of its Census 2000 research and testing
program....This report focuses on the effects that the following three
treatments tested in the NCS have on how people report race and
Hispanic origin. The treatments are: adding a multiracial response
category in the race question; placing the Hispanic origin question
immediately before the race question; and combining both of these
changes."
Correspondence: U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Washington, D.C. 20233-8800. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
64:10785 Zhiromskaya, V. B.; Kiselev, I. N.;
Polyakov, Yu. A. Half a century under the stamp marked
secret. The 1937 population census. [Polveka pod grifom sekretno.
Vsesoyuznaya perepis' naseleniya 1937 goda.] ISBN 5-02-009756-X. 1996.
151 pp. Nauka: Moscow, Russia. In Rus.
This book is about the 1937
Soviet census, the results of which were not published at the time
because the data were allegedly flawed. The authors note that materials
containing data from this census were discovered in the Russian State
Archive of Economics in the early 1990s and appeared subsequently in
various publications. The organization of the census is described and
examples of the questionnaires used are provided. The authors also
analyze the data, and describe some of the unique features of the
census, such as special treatment of certain populations at the request
of the military. Topics covered include sex and age distribution,
marital status, employment, nationality, education, and religion. The
reasons why the government of the time refused to accept the results of
the census and the way it dealt with the problems arising from that
refusal are described.
Correspondence: Nauka, Profsoyuznaya
ul. 90, 117864 GSP-7, Moscow B-485, Russia. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
Studies of periodic or special surveys relevant to population studies, excluding KAP (knowledge, attitudes, and practice of family planning) studies, which are coded under F.4.4. Attitudes toward Fertility and Fertility Control.
64:10786 Agha, Homa; Chasteland, Jean-Claude;
Courbage, Youssef; Ladier-Fouladi, Marie; Mehryar, Amir H.
Family and fertility in Shiraz (1996): preliminary report.
[Famille et fécondité à Shiraz (1996): rapport
préliminaire.] INED Dossiers et Recherches, No. 60, Jul 1997. 58
pp. Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]: Paris,
France. In Fre.
Preliminary results are presented from a joint 1996
Franco-Iranian survey involving 1,242 households; the survey studied
the family, fertility, and contraceptive practice in the city of
Shiraz, Iran. Following a general introduction to the survey and to the
province of Fars and the city of Shiraz, there are chapters on the
characteristics of families and households and of the members of those
households, nuptiality, fertility, reproduction and contraception,
mortality and child health, and attitudes toward fertility and
marriage.
Correspondence: Institut National d'Etudes
Démographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14,
France. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10787 Buck, Nick; Ermisch, John; Jenkins,
Stephen P. Choosing a longitudinal survey design: the
issues. Occasional Papers of the ESRC Research Centre on
Micro-Social Change, No. 96-1, ISBN 1-873733-72-0. Jan 1996. 32 pp.
University of Essex, ESRC Data Archive: Essex, England. In Eng.
"Our aim is to analyse the contributions which alternative
longitudinal survey designs can make to information about the dynamics
of family income, labour market and demographic behaviour, and related
policy issues. We also give advice about assessing the most cost
effective longitudinal survey designs for these purposes. In preparing
our evaluation, we have also compared pure longitudinal surveys with
repeated cross-sectional surveys since, as we shall show, these can
sometimes provide the same information as the more complex longitudinal
survey while also having some other
advantages."
Correspondence: University of Essex, ESRC
Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester,
Essex C04 3SQ, England. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:10788 Centro Paraguayo de Estudios de
Población [CEPEP] (Asunción, Paraguay); United States.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (Atlanta, Georgia);
United States. Agency for International Development [USAID]
(Washington, D.C.). National Survey of Demography and
Reproductive Health, 1995-1996: ENDSR-95/96. [Encuesta Nacional de
Demografía y Salud Reproductiva 1995-1996: ENDSR-95/96.] Oct
1997. xxxii, 225, 56 pp. Asunción, Paraguay. In Spa.
The
results of a survey on population and reproductive health carried out
in Paraguay in 1995-1996 are presented. The survey involved a sample of
6,465 women aged 15-49 and 4,917 of their children under five years of
age. Following chapters on the country in general and the methodology
of the survey, there are chapters on fertility, knowledge and use of
family planning methods, nonusers of contraception and service needs,
the use of native herbs for contraception, the sexual and contraceptive
behavior of young adults, infant and child mortality, maternal
mortality, maternal health, breast-feeding and supplementary feeding,
infant and child health, health service accessibility, and verbal and
physical abuse of women.
Correspondence: Centro Paraguayo
de Estudios de Población, Juan E. O'Leary y Manduvirá,
Edificio El Dorado, Piso 8, Asunción, Paraguay. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10789 Hao, Hongsheng; Gao, Ling.
Estimation and analysis of sampling errors for the 1992 National
Fertility and Family Planning Survey. In: 1992 National Fertility
and Family Planning Survey, China: selected research papers in English.
Oct 1997. 139-64 pp. State Family Planning Commission of China:
Beijing, China; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]:
Atlanta, Georgia. In Eng.
"This appendix estimates and
analyzes the sampling errors for selected demographic measures and
statistics for complex designs such as design effects and intraclass
correlation for the national sample survey in 1992 conducted by the
State Commission on Family Planning of China....Except for a few
variables, such as infant mortality, the estimates for the total sample
have either low or very low levels of sampling error, with most
relative errors below 3%. Most of the age-specific rates have high
levels of precision. We can therefore deduce that, for most of the
variables for which we did not calculate sampling errors, inferences at
the national level would have very good or reasonable
precision."
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:10790 Honduras. Ministerio de Salud
(Tegucigalpa, Honduras); Asociación Hondureña de
Planificación de Familia [ASHONPLAFA] (Tegucigalpa, Honduras);
United States. Agency for International Development [USAID]
(Washington, D.C.); United States. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention [CDC] (Atlanta, Georgia). National Survey of
Epidemiology and Family Health, 1996: summary results. [Encuesta
Nacional de Epidemiologia y Salud Familiar, 1996: informe resumido.]
[1997?]. viii, 56 pp. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In Spa.
Summary
results are presented from a survey carried out in Honduras in 1996,
involving 9,647 households in both rural and urban areas and 7,505
women aged 15-49. There are chapters on fertility, family planning,
maternal health, breast-feeding and supplementary infant feeding,
infant mortality, child health, and AIDS.
Correspondence:
Ministerio de Salud, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10791 Kaufman, Carol E.
1987-89 South African Demographic and Health Survey: methodology
and data quality. Population Studies Center Research Report, No.
97-395, Jun 1997. 27 pp. University of Michigan, Population Studies
Center: Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
"The 1987-89 South
African Demographic and Health Survey (SADHS), conducted by the Human
Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa, is the only national
study of South Africa which recorded detailed fertility, health and
mortality experiences of almost 22,000 reproductive aged women in the
late apartheid era. Political circumstances inhibited the dissemination
of the data, and minimal effort went towards the documentation of the
survey design, sampling, or fieldwork. Drawing on fieldwork reports,
sampling schedules and interviews, this paper documents the methodology
of the survey and assesses the quality of the
data."
Correspondence: University of Michigan,
Population Studies Center, 1225 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI
48104-2590. Location: University of Michigan Library, Ann
Arbor, MI.
64:10792 Myanmar. Ministry of Immigration and
Population, Immigration and Population Department (Yangon,
Myanmar). Myanmar Population Changes and Fertility Survey,
1991. LC 96-915816. Sep 1995. ix, 110, [36] pp. Yangon, Myanmar.
In Eng.
This is the final report from a survey on population change
and fertility carried out in Myanmar (Burma) in 1991. The survey
included a large household sample involving 192,917 individuals, and a
smaller population and health sample involving 6,675 ever-married women
aged 15-49. Following a description of survey design and
implementation, there are chapters on background characteristics,
fertility and nuptiality, contraception, maternal and child health,
mortality, and migration.
Correspondence: Ministry of
Immigration and Population, Immigration and Population Department, 416
Maha Bandoola Street, Kyauktada Township, Yangon 11182, Myanmar.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
64:10793 Population Council (New York, New
York). Eritrea 1995: results from the Demographic and
Health Survey. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 28, No. 4, Dec
1997. 336-40 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
These are the summary
results from the 1995 Eritrea Demographic and Health Survey, which
covered 5,469 households and 5,054 women aged 15-49. Tabular data are
provided on population characteristics, fertility, fertility
preferences, current contraceptive use, marital and contraceptive
status, postpartum variables, infant mortality, disease prevention and
treatment, and nutrition.
Correspondence: Population
Council, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10794 Population Council (New York, New
York). Mali 1995-96: results from the Demographic and
Health Survey. Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 28, No. 4, Dec
1997. 341-5 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
These are the summary
results from the 1995-96 Mali Demographic and Health Survey, which
covered 8,716 households and 9,704 women aged 15-49. Tabular data are
provided on population characteristics, fertility, fertility
preferences, current contraceptive use, marital and contraceptive
status, postpartum variables, infant mortality, disease prevention and
treatment, and nutrition.
Correspondence: Population
Council, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:10795 Tejada Holguín, Ramón;
Herold, Joan; Morris, Leo. Dominican Republic. National
Survey of Youth, 1992. ENJOVEN-92. Final results.
[República Dominicana. Encuesta Nacional de Jóvenes,
1992. ENJOVEN-92. Informe final.] [1997?]. 199, 37 pp.
Asociación Dominicana Pro Bienestar de la Familia, Instituto de
Estudios de Población y Desarrollo: Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]:
Atlanta, Georgia. In Spa.
The results of a survey on young people
in the Dominican Republic are presented in this report. The survey,
undertaken in 1992, involved 1,245 men and 1,608 women aged 15-24 from
both rural and urban areas. Following chapters on survey methodology,
there are chapters on the characteristics of young people and their
parents, sex education and knowledge of contraception, contraceptive
usage, fertility and fatherhood, attitudes and opinions, knowledge and
actions with regard to AIDS, and religion and leisure
activities.
Correspondence: Asociación Dominicana
Pro Bienestar de la Familia, Instituto de Estudios de Población
y Desarrollo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
