Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data
Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data

Author: Naciones Unidas. División de Estadística

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9789211614626

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Socio-economic policy planning and monitoring requires accurate data on births, deaths and population, in order to plan effectively for provision of health, education, employment and social security services. This publication contains detailed information on the compilation of demographic data using a range of complementary methods which can be combined to suit national conditions. Topics covered include: planning collection of fertility and mortality data; fieldwork, data processing and archiving; evaluation, estimation and dissemination; civil registration records, censuses and surveys as data sources.

Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data
Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data

Author: United Nations

Publisher: UN

Published: 2005-01-14

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9789215610013

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This Handbook presents data on births, deaths and populations collected using several complementary methods. This data is useful to government officials, policymakers and statistical planners as well as researchers and scholars.

Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3
Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3

Author: United Nations. Statistical Office

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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The publication is an international standard on the design and operation of an efficient and accurate vital statistics system at national level. It provides guidelines on collection, compiling and disseminating vital statistics. More specifically it contains (a) basic principles for a vital statistics system; (b) uses of vital statistics and civil registration records; (c) topics to be covered in a vital statistics system; (d) sources of vital statistics and how they function; (e) quality assurance in the vital statistics system and (f) strategies in improving civil registration and vital statistics systems in countries. It also informs policy makers and the general public on the importance of vital statistics and hence further improving the vital statistics system.

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.

Handbook of Population
Handbook of Population

Author: Dudley L. Poston

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-10

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13: 9780387257020

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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.