TY - BOOK AU - Preston,Samuel H. AU - Heuveline,Patrick AU - Guillot,Michel TI - Demography: measuring and modeling population processes. SN - 9781557864512 AV - HB849.4.P73 U1 - 304.6/07/2 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Demography KW - Population research N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index; Contents: Basic concepts and measures -- Age-specific rates and probabilities -- The life table and single decrement processes -- Multiple decrement processes -- Fertility and reproduction -- Population projection -- The stable population model -- Demographic relations in nonstable populations -- Modelling age patterns of vital events -- Methods for evaluating data quality -- Indirect estimation methods -- Increment-Decrement life tables -- ER -