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The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues, Statistical Modeling, Analyses, and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information, the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean, and the importance of using a Demographic framework in better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical m...

The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues, Statistical Modeling, Analyses, and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information, the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean, and the importance of using a Demographic framework in better understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical m...

RootsAction.org is one of the two organizations that launched the Impeach Donald Trump Now petition on Inauguration Day in January 2017, based on the first two of the following 25 grounds for impeachment. That petition has gathered 1.4 million signers.Since then, RootsAction has developed the other 23 articles of impeachment published here, and flooded Congress Members with hundreds of thousands of emails from their constituents urging that th...

This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning problems in both public and private settings.The topics and perspectives are found in the book’s 23 chapters, which are organized into three major ...

In  provocative terms that  push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek  propose a re-vamped US census  based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing.  Instead, they propose that it be built on a combination of four elements: (1) administrative records, (2) the continuously updated Master Address File, (3) survey data, and (4) modeling and im...

Applied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21st century.  One significant area of change is the extension of applied demography beyond the United States, this book includes material dealing with applied demography in Australia, Canada, Estonia, and Mexico. Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century presents a score of selected papers from the second post-2000...

This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status.  A variety of methods have been proffered over the past many decades, in a large variety of venues, this work brings them together, attempts to impart some order on the definition of “legal status, ” and describes strengths and deficiencies both...

Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing types of estimation from both the demographic and sample-survey traditions and is a self-contained primer that combines academic rigor with a wealth of real-world examples that are ...

This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning problems in both public and private settings.The topics and perspectives are found in the book’s 23 chapters, which are organized into three major ...

An accessible introduction to Aristotle's Politics - a classic of political theory, widely considered to be the founding text of Western political science.