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From Birth to Death: A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 11 Apr 2023 00:35:03
From Birth to Death: A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies

William Petersen, "From Birth to Death: A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies"
English | ISBN: 141281491X | 2011 | 206 pages | EPUB | 1114 KB

From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the Bureau of the Census. It describes the errors and other flaws typically found in such data.
Petersen sets out the fundamentals of demography and reviews the current proposal to use sampling in the census. He then reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex structure leads to false conclusions. Petersen explores race and ethnicity and the dilemmas inherent in the necessarily ambiguous definitions of these categories. He also analyzes the problems of women who postpone having children to ages when risks of failure become significant.
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