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Beginning population studies / David Lucas & Paul Meyer, editors.

Title
Beginning population studies / David Lucas & Paul Meyer, editors.
Publication
[Canberra] : National Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Lucas, David.
  • Meyer, Paul A.
Description
xv, 199 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
"Beginning Population Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to an interdisciplinary approach to demography, with particular focus on development and comparing the developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa with Australia and other developed countries" --- page [4] of cover.
Subject
  • Demography
  • Population
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-190) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Scope of demography -- World population growth and theories -- Mortality -- Proximate determinants of fertility -- Background to fertility -- Marriage and divorce -- Migration: general concepts -- Internal migration -- International migration -- Inter-relations between the demographic variables -- Family life cycle approach in demography -- Population and resources -- Population policies -- Demographic change and research in the 1980s and 1990s.
ISBN
0731516958
OCLC
  • 30555537
  • SCSB-11099411
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Harvard Library