This work provides selected, peer-reviewed papers from the Biennial Conference on Applied Demography held in San Antonio, Texas on January 7-9 and sponsored by the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio. The work contains chapters on several major topical areas that are central to applied demography including works on data Use and measurement, including detailed analysis of the American Community Survey and Master Address File, population estimation and projection, applied demography and health, and surveys examples of applied demographic analysis in such diverse areas as urban planning, educational planning, church selection, and private-sector marketing. The work also contains a section on the process of educating applied demographers delineating the types of skills needed by the applied demographer and providing examples of a program designed to meet such needs. Finally, the work presents beginning and concluding chapters that succinctly delineate the current characteristics and state of applied demography and the challenges facing it in the coming decades. The work provides an excellent overview of the state of applied demography at the beginning of the 21st Century which should be of interest to all demographers and be appropriate for adoption for courses in a variety of disciplines including demography, sociology, economics, geography, planning, statistics and others.

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Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century. Data bases, substantive issues and methodological approaches seldom considered just a few years ago have become mainstream concerns in the area of applied demography.

This book derived from the 1st post-2000 national conference on Applied Demography, to be held in San Antonio, Texas January 7-9, 2007 under the sponsorship of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio, provides a unique opportunity to obtain an overview of the current state of applied demography. The work will provide a cross-sectional view of Applied Demography and an evaluation of its likely future.

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Data Use And Measurement Issues.- Applied Demography at the Beginning of the 21st Century.- Measuring Population Change Using the American Community Survey.- Using the 2005 American Community Survey.- Address Coverage Improvement and Evaluation Program - 2005 National Estimate of Coverage of the Master Address File.- Population Estimates And Projections.- Using Assessor Parcel Data to Maintain Housing Unit Counts for Small Area Population Estimates.- Aging and Elder Abuse: Projections for Michigan.- Methods for Measuring the Population after a Disaster.- An Evaluation of Population Estimates for Counties and Places in Texas for 2000.- Using Demographic Estimates and Projections to Improve Statistical Forecasting.- Measuring Uncertainty in Population Data Generated by the Cohort-Component Method: A Report on Research in Progress.- Applied Demography And Health.- Tuberculosis and Perception of Risk: A Comparison of Native Born and Foreign Born Persons in the United States.- Causes of Fire Deaths and Injuries in Anchorage, Alaska: Policy Implications.- Dispersion of Registered Death Causes as a Function of Age in the 1999 U.S. Population.- The Breadth Of Applied Demography.- Comparison of Potential Demographic Influences on Church Membership of Two United Methodist Congregations in San Antonio, Texas.- Linking Tax-Lot and Student Record Data: Applications in School Planning.- Demography and Turnover.- Household Consumption in China: An Examination of the Utility of Urban-Rural Segmentation.- How Chinese Children Spend Their Time.- Educating The Applied Demographer.- Introducing Survey Methods to Professional Students in Applied Demography.- The Academic Training of Applied Demographers: History, Evolution, and a Description of the First Ph.D. Program in AppliedDemography.- Conclusions.- Applied Demography in the 21st Century.