Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography

By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of estimates and projection techniques and evaluation procedures; new techniques are proposed for estimating families and households and particular attention is paid to the much-discussed topic of access to health care. Coverage extends to factors influencing health status and elder abuse, child bearing and labor market analysis and the effects of education on labor market outcomes of native white American and immigrant European populations.

Methodologically rigorous and pragmatically useful, Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography also examines a wide variety of public and private issues under the field of applied demography. It provides a broad overview of research topics and also reflects substantial development in the field of applied demography. It also bridges the gap between theory and research by providing several examples of work of distinguished applied demographic.

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Acknowledgements.- Foreword.- INTRODUCTION: Chapter 1: Introduction: Md. Nazrul Hoque and Lloyd Potter.- SECTION 1: Chapter 2: An Evaluation of Population Forecast Errors for Florida and its Counties, 1980-2010: Stanley K. Smith and Stefan Rayer.- Chapter 3: Simplifying Local Area Population and Household Projections with POPART: Tom Wilson.- Chapter 4: The Net Undercount of Children in the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census: Dr. William P. O'Hare.- Chapter 5: Mathematical Modeling and Projecting Population of Bangladesh by Age and Sex from 2002 to 2031: Md. Rafiqul Islam and Md. Nazrul Hoque.- SECTION 2: Chapter 6: Sub-County Population Estimates Using Administrative Records: A Municipal-Level Case Study in New Mexico: Jack Baker, Adélamar Alcántara, Xiaomin Ruan, Daren Ruiz, and Nathan Crouse.- Chapter 7: Housing-Unit Method in Comparison: The Virginia Case: Qian Cai and Rebecca Tippett.- Chapter 8: On the Ratio-Correlation Regression Method of Population Estimation and Its Variants: David A. Swanson and Jeff Tayman.- Chapter 9: Assessing Accuracy in Postcensal Estimates: Statistical Properties of Different Measures: Howard Hogan and Mary H. Mulry.- Chapter 10: Using Tax Data to Estimate the Number of Families and Households in Canada: Julien Bérard-Chagnon.- SECTION 3: Chapter 11: Comparing Immigrant Education Levels and Resultant Labor Market Outcomes: the European versus the Native Born Experience in the United States: Cristina Bradatan and Laszlo J. Kulcsar.- Chapter 12: Childbearing and the Labor Market: Time and Space Dynamics: Elena Kotyrlo.- Chapter 13: Household Expenditure on Medical Care and Health in Australia: Farhat Yusuf and Stephen R. Leeder.- Chapter 14: Mobile Home Population Displacement: The Case of Anchorage, Alaska: Donna Shai and Kristen Eaton.- Chapter 15: Geography Is Destiny: Spatial Correlations in Poverty and Educational Attainment in a New Mexico School District: Srini Vasan, AdélamarAlcántara, Nomalanga Nefertari, Xiaomin Ruan, and Jack Baker.- SECTION 4: Chapter 16: Alternative Strategies for Mapping ACS Estimates and Error of Estimation: Joe Francis, Nij Tontisirin, Sutee Anantsuksomsri, Jan Vink, and Viktor Zhong.- Chapter 17: Older Moms Deliver: How Increased Births to Older Mothers Can Impact School Enrollment: Richard Lycan and Charles Rynerson.- Chapter 18: Who Must Elect by District in California? A Demographer's Perspective on Methods for Assessing Racially Polarized Voting: Jeanne Gobalet and Shelley Lapkoff.- SECTION 5: Chapter 19: Individuals' Perceptions of Belonging to an Age Cohort and Consequential Cohort-Based Decision-Making: Alison Yacyshyn and Kwame Boadu.- Chapter 20: Access to Health Care on the International Border of Texas: Stephanie L. McFall and David W. Smith.- Chapter 21: Factors Influencing Differentials in Rural-Urban Living Arrangements, Health Status, and Abuse of the Elderly in Rajshahi District of Bangladesh: Md. Ismail Tareque, Md. Nazrul Hoque, Towfiqa. M. Islam, Kazuo Kawahara, and Makiko Sugawa.- Chapter 22: The Conceptualization and Measurement of the Homosexual, Heterosexual, and Bisexual Populations in the United States: Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Yu-Ting Chang.- Chapter 23: Demographic Attributes of Mississippi Nursing Students and Family Influences:Ronald E. Cossman, Jeralynn S. Cossman, and Philip B. Mason.