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Demography : textbook for the South African student

Title
Demography : textbook for the South African student / W.P. Mostert [and others].
Author
Mostert, Willem Petrus.
Publication
Pretoria : Human Sciences Research Council, 1998.

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Human Sciences Research Council.
Description
237 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
Uniform Title
Demografie. English
Alternative Title
Demografie.
Subject
  • Demography > Study and teaching > South Africa
  • Démographie > Étude et enseignement > Afrique du Sud
  • Demography > Study and teaching
  • Population
  • South Africa > Population
  • South Africa
Note
  • Rev. and translated from: Demografie / W.P. Mostert, J.S. Oosthuizen, B.E. Hofmeyr.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237).
Contents
The purpose of this book is to introduce students to demographic methods and concepts on the basis of South African examples. Formal demography and the study of populations. Sources of demographic data. Sources of South African population statistics. Population growth. Demographic transition. World population. South African population. Age and gender structure. Mortality. HIV/AIDS pandemic. Fertility. Nuptiality and the family cycle. Migration. International and internal migration. Population projections by the United Nations. Projections of the South African population.
ISBN
  • 0796918805
  • 9780796918802
LCCN
98208770
OCLC
  • ocm40674855
  • 40674855
  • SCSB-1203601
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library