UP504 • Demographylast modified: Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:22 PM
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Dates: March 17, 19 |
We spend two sessions examining the basic concepts and tools of demographic analysis, including: population estimates, cohort survival, matrix algebra, use of life tables.
CDC life tables • US Life Table, 2004 (pdf) (NOTE: methodology explained on pp. 37-39)
revised (2008) cohort survival example (pdf file)
cohort survival excel example using matrix algebra
ppt presentation on demography (March 17, 2008) [large file!]
Myers, Dowell and Lee Menifee . "Population Analysis," in The Practice
of Local Government Planning, 3rd edition, edited by Charles J. Hoch, Linda
C. Dalton and Frank S. So International City/County Management Association,
2000, pp. 61-86. [electronic
reserves]
CDC life tables -- read the most recent report
Dowell
Myers, "Demographic Dynamism and Metropolitan Change: Comparing Los Angeles,
New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC, Housing Policy Debate, 10 (4,
1999): 919-54. PDF
file
U.S. Census, "Methodology
and Assumptions for the Population Projections of the United States: 1999 to
2100"
U.S. Census, "State
Household and Housing Unit Estimation Methodology: 1990-1998"
see also:
Myers, Dowell . 1992. Analysis with Local Census Data. Boston: Academic
Press. (in library)
Internet
Resources for Demographers (Princeton University OPR)
see also this fascinating site:
"6 billion Human Beings: An exhibit from the Musèe de l'Homme",
Musèum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris).
[an entertaining site]
CDC (National Center for Health Statistics)
Life Tables
Tim Chapin (FSU): Demographic
Methods & Cohort
Component Technique
Regional Plan Association, “America 2050: A Prospectus,” New York: September 2006.
other resources:
graph of US migration, and US Census state
projections
U.S.
population pyramids
US Census: International
Data Base; including
international age pyramids
US Census: World Population
Profile 1998
graph: the growing size of
the American home
Population Council
Population Studies Center (U. Michigan)
and its library & links
to online
databases
Population Association of America (PAA)
UN World Population Prospects Population Database
National Academy Press, Beyond
Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population (2002)
Frank Hobbs and Nicole Stoops. Demographic Trends in the 20th Century. U.S.
Census Bureau, Census 2000 Special Reports, Series CENSR-4 November 2002. [very
large pdf file
-- 34M]
Population Reference Bureau: publications • Population Handbook (useful guide to basic demographic terms and methods) • glossary of demographic terms
World Health Organization (WHO): Life Tables for WHO Member States
link to assignment page [to be added soon]