Counting the Population
Counting the Population

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Treasury Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780215520593

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This report (HCP 183-1, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215520593), from the Treasury Committee, examines the process of counting the population and the problems faced by local authorities in estimating what is a highly mobile population in their areas. A number of these problems became visible during the 2001 Census. The Committee states that the methodology for estimating local populations between each census is not fit for purpose because the statistics fail to take proper account of internal migration. A consequence of this is that local authority funding is based on inadequate information. The Committee recommends that the newly established Statistics Authority should devise a more accurate method to reflect the local population and the effects of internal migration. Further, the Committee raises concerns about the use of the International Passenger Survey in estimating international migration and that a new survey is required to provide a more accurate measurement of international movements. The Committee also states that the development of computerised adminitrative records in the UK requires the Government to put in place strong ethical safeguards to protect personal information. Also the Government and the Statistics Authority need to push ahead with the production of the national address register to underpin the accuracy of the 2011 Census. Finally the Committee believes the traditional census has had its day and the Statistics Authority needs to set out a strategic objective to ensure that the data gathered throughout the UK can be used to produce annual population statistics that are of a quality to enable the 2011 Census to be the last census in the UK where the population is counted through census forms. For the Written evidence to this Volume, see (HCP 183-II, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215038036).

Population Estimates
Population Estimates

Author: Great Britain. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The Registrar General's estimates of the population of regions and local government areas of England and Wales by sex and age.

Handbook of Population
Handbook of Population

Author: Dudley L. Poston

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-26

Total Pages: 914

ISBN-13: 0387231064

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This comprehensive handbook provides an overview and update of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. The volume's 30 chapters cover the full range of conceptual, empirical, disciplinary, and applied approaches to the study of demographic phenomena. This book is the first effort to assess the entire field since Hauser and Duncan's 1959 classic, The Study of Population. The chapter authors are among the leading contributors to demographic scholarship over the past four decades. They represent a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives as well as interests in both basic and applied research.

Regional Science in Business
Regional Science in Business

Author: Graham Clarke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3662046253

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Graham Clarke and Moss Madden 1. 1 Background In the mid 1990s there were a number of papers in regional science that questioned the relevance and purpose of the entire sub-discipline. Bailly and Coffey (1994) for example, talked of 'regional science in crisis'. They argued that there were two fundamental problems. First, regional science was too theoretical in the sense that many of its products were models that could neither be calibrated (too complex) or operationalised (too abstract) in the real world. They suggested that regional science had not sufficiently demonstrated that it can address real-world problems and subsequently lacked a focus on relevant policy issues. Second, they argued that regional science had become too narrow in focus and had moved away too far from real people and their daily concerns or struggles in life. This was not the first time we had witnessed these sorts of arguments, both from outside the discipline and from within. Sayer (1976) was perhaps the first to argue for a shift from a model-based focus in regional science to one based on political economy. Breheny (1984) criticised the 'deep ignorance among regional scientists of the nature of practical policy making and implementation' (see also Rodwin (1987) for similar views in the mid 1980s). Such self-reflection is a feature of many disciplines as they reach maturity. There have been many similar reflections in geography (Johnston 1996, Barnes 1996) and economics (see the collection in the January edition of the Economic Journal 1991).