Studies concerned with demographic methods and with methods from other disciplines that have been applied to demographic data as a whole. Includes mathematical demography and studies on methods of estimation and indirect estimation. Methodological studies and models concerned with one demographic variable, such as migration, are coded under the category concerned with that topic and cross-referenced to this heading. Studies on models used to investigate relationships between demographic variables and for the analysis of empirical data are also coded under this heading.
64:30798 Aziz, K. M. A.; Mosley, W.
Henry. The history, methodology, and main findings of the
Matlab project in Bangladesh. In: Prospective community studies in
developing countries, edited by Monica Das Gupta et al. 1997. 28-53 pp.
Clarendon Press: Oxford, England; International Union for the
Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]: Liège, Belgium. In Eng.
This chapter describes the continuous surveillance project started
in 1963 in Matlab, Bangladesh, the primary purpose of which was to
field-test cholera vaccines. It "will highlight major elements in
the design and implementation of Matlab field operations and related
data-management issues. These will be discussed in the context of the
technical requirements for some of the major research projects that
were carried out in the Matlab area. Major attention will be given to
the establishment and evolution of the demographic surveillance system
(DSS), as this provides the foundation for all other field research
projects. In addition, some operational issues related to a number of
specialized prospective research projects will be briefly noted,
particularly those that involve intensive in-depth study of
sub-populations using a variety of measuring instruments from the
biomedical and social sciences."
Correspondence: K. M.
A. Aziz, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh, G.P.O. Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:30799 Barbi, Elisabetta. The
class of inverse projections: review of recent solutions for the
analysis of the evolutionary processes of populations. [La classe
delle proiezioni inverse: rassegna delle recenti soluzioni per
l'analisi dei processi evolutivi delle popolazioni.] Bollettino di
Demografia Storica, No. 24-25, 1996. 7-19 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
The author reviews the technique of inverse projection, introduced
by Ronald Lee in 1974, and its various subsequent modifications up to
1995. Its application to the study of changes in the characteristics of
a population over time is discussed. Relevant computer programs are
also considered.
Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:30800 Courgeau, Daniel; Lelièvre,
Eva. Demographic event history analysis. [L'analyse
démographique des biographies.] In: Démographie: analyse
et synthèse. Causes et conséquences des évolutions
démographiques, Volume 1. Sep 1997. 281-9 pp. Università
degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Scienze Demografiche:
Rome, Italy; Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques [INED]:
Paris, France; Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de
Démographie, Département des Sciences de la Population et
du Développement: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In Fre.
The
authors discuss how the number of surveys carried out since 1980 has
led to a greater availability of longitudinal data on individuals. They
focus on the implications of this fact for demographic event history
analysis.
Correspondence: D. Courgeau, Institut National
d'Etudes Démographiques, 133 boulevard Davout, 75980 Paris Cedex
20, France. E-mail: ined@ined.fr. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:30801 Das Gupta, Monica; Aaby, Peter;
Garenne, Michel; Pison, Gilles. Prospective community
studies in developing countries. International Studies in
Demography, ISBN 0-19-829209-0. 1997. viii, 350 pp. Clarendon Press:
Oxford, England; International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population [IUSSP]: Liège, Belgium. In Eng.
"This book
presents an overview of eleven of the most important prospective
studies in developing countries in population and health research.
Leading practitioners in the field report on the methodologies they
have developed and used, and summarize their findings." The focus
of such studies is on the basic processes of births, diseases, and
deaths in a given community. The included studies show how prospective
research of this kind has contributed to the observation, monitoring,
and analysis of demographic behavior. Selective results from the
studies on community health are presented.
Selected items will be
cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: Oxford University Press, Great
Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:30802 De Santis, Gustavo. A
new measure of legitimate and illegitimate fertility. [Una nuova
misura della fecondità legittima e illegittima.] Bollettino di
Demografia Storica, No. 24-25, 1996. 67-83 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
A method for measuring fertility rates is presented that uses data
on marital status. Two sample applications are also given, one based on
contemporary Italian data from 1971, and one on historical data from
Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1748.
Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
64:30803 Ghilagaber, Gebrenegus.
Five essays on models and methods for the analysis of survival data
with single and multiple causes of failure: with applications in family
demography. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from
the Faculty of Social Sciences, No. 72, ISBN 91-554-4188-2. 1998. 33
pp. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Uppsala, Sweden. Distributed by
Uppsala University Library, Box 510, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. In Eng.
This report presents summaries of five related studies on models
and methods for the analysis of survival data with single and multiple
causes of failure and their application to aspects of family
demography. Following a general introduction, the five papers
summarized are entitled: Similarities among some hazard-rate and
duration models; Analysis of survival data with multiple causes of
failure; Simultaneous log-linear modeling of multiple risks; The
problem of identification in multiplicative intensity-rate models with
multiple interactions; and Evaluating robustness of the Chow test for
equality of two heteroscedastic log-normal duration
models.
Correspondence: Uppsala Universitet, Acta
Universitatis Upsaliensis, P.O. Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:30804 Grgurevic, Oleg. A
contribution to procedures for the demographic evaluation of
settlements. [Prilog proucavanju postupka demografskog vrednovanja
naselja.] Prostor, Vol. 3, No. 2, Jul-Dec 1995. 217-32 pp. Zagreb,
Croatia. In Scr. with sum. in Eng.
"The article illustrates a
qualitative procedure for the demographic evaluation of settlements
based on seven interconnected demographic indicators. The procedure was
used to classify settlements in the Pregrada Municipality [in Croatia].
To eliminate subjectivity present in the earlier qualitative procedure,
settlements in the Pregrada Municipality were evaluated on the basis of
a quantitative method. The results, in the sense of the demographic
features of the settlements and their importance in Pregrada
Municipality, were congruent with the actual geographical and traffic
position of settlements in the municipality, and with their actual
demographic importance...."
Correspondence: O.
Grgurevic, University of Zagreb, Fakultet Arhitektonski, Kaciceva 26,
10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:30805 Gueresi, Paola; Pettener, D.;
Martuzzi-Veronesi, F. The method of repeated pairs of
surnames in marriages in analyzing the extent of subdivisions in
populations. [Il metodo delle coppie ripetute nell'analisi del
grado di suddivisione di popolazioni.] Bollettino di Demografia
Storica, No. 24-25, 1996. 85-96 pp. Florence, Italy. In Ita.
The
authors describe a method whereby studying the frequency of repeated
pairs of surnames in married couples can be used to measure the extent
of genetic subgroups in a population. They illustrate the application
of this method using data on geographically and/or ethnically isolated
minority populations in Italy and San Marino from the eighteenth
century to the 1990s.
Correspondence: P. Gueresi,
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche,
40126 Bologna, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:30806 Patarra, Neide L.; Oliveira, Maria C.
F. A. de. A critical review of fertility studies.
Brazilian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. 1, 1997-1998. 25-39 pp.
São Paulo, Brazil. In Eng.
The authors critically examine
the theoretical and methodological bases of fertility studies, with a
focus on Latin America. "Having shown that the type of
concenptualization utilized in fertility studies is derived from a
defined theoretical framework, that of modernization theory, we move on
to an analysis of the fundamental elements of this theory and its
implications and limitations in the study of reproductive
behavior."
Correspondence: N. L. Patarra, Universidade
Estadual de Campinas, Caixa Postal 6166, CEP 13081 Campinas, SP,
Brazil. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:30807 Taylor, Carl E. Origins
of longitudinal community-based studies. In: Prospective community
studies in developing countries, edited by Monica Das Gupta et al.
1997. 19-27 pp. Clarendon Press: Oxford, England; International Union
for the Scientific Study of Population [IUSSP]: Liège, Belgium.
In Eng.
"Convergence of field experience in longitudinal
community-based studies has evolved from three distinct disciplines:
epidemiology, demography, and health systems research. For more
systematic use of these methods it seems desirable to synthesize what
has been learned. In this paper the historical contributions of the
three disciplines are briefly described. Because of the demonstrated
potential for community-based studies in improving primary health-care
services, some general principles are defined to guide future
efforts."
Correspondence: C. E. Taylor, Johns Hopkins
University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of
International Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
64:30808 Torrado, Susana. Family
and social differentiation: some methodological questions.
[Familia y diferenciación social: cuestiones de método.]
ISBN 950-23-0742-9. May 1998. 263 pp. Editorial Universitaria de Buenos
Aires: Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Spa.
This publication reproduces
a number of articles written by the author between 1974 and 1998. The
focus is on some methodological aspects concerning the demographic
analysis of a population's social characteristics and means of
identifying the differences in living standards associated with social
class. The articles are organized in sections on theoretical aspects of
using the family as the unit of analysis, methodological issues in
sociodemographic studies using data from censuses and household
surveys, the family as the unit of analysis in censuses and household
surveys, the methodologies that can be used to distinguish families by
socioeconomic status, the system of indicators concerning the situation
of families in Latin America, and the availability and comparability of
data on housing, households, and families in Argentine
censuses.
Correspondence: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos
Aires, Avenida Rivadavia 1571-3, Buenos Aires 1033, Argentina. E-mail:
eudeba@eudeba.com.ar. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
64:30809 Vaupel, James W.; Wang, Zhenglian;
Andreev, Kirill F.; Yashin, Anatoli I. Population data at
a glance: shaded contour maps of demographic surfaces over age and
time. Odense Monographs on Population Aging, Vol. 4, ISBN
87-7838-338-2. [1998]. 98 pp. Odense University Press: Odense, Denmark.
In Eng.
"This monograph presents a bouquet of shaded contour
maps to suggest the broad potential of their use in population studies.
The value of such maps lies in their substantive import.... Demographic
surfaces can be particularly complex. A mortality surface, for example,
might be defined over a century of age and a century of time,
comprising 10,000 data points that may vary over four orders of
magnitude. Shaded contour maps are an arresting, efficient, and clear
means of giving demographers visual access to such data." A
diskette containing Lexis maps is included.
Correspondence:
Odense University Press, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.
E-mail: press@forlag.ou.dk. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
