Download or read book Techniques of Demographic Data Analysis with Special Reference to Sub Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continuity and Change in Sub Saharan African Demography written by Clifford O. Odimegwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan African censuses, profiling demographic changes, trends, patterns and consequences in the region. Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, accessible, simple and topical, this volume is perfectly suited to researchers, students and lecturers who are interested in understanding sub-Saharan African population dynamics and issues.
Download or read book Demographic Analysis written by Andrzej Klimczuk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographic Analysis - Selected Concepts, Tools, and Applications presents basic definitions, practical techniques, and methods, as well as examples of studies based on the usage of demographic analysis in various institutions and economic entities. The volume covers studies related to population distribution, urbanization, migration, population change and dynamics, aging, longevity, population theories, and population projections. It is an asset to academic and professional communities interested in advancing knowledge on diverse populations in various contexts such as public policies, public services, education, and labor markets. The book aims to help students of demography as well as practitioners of other fields of social sciences and people in government, business, and nonprofit organizations.
Download or read book Demography of Tropical Africa written by William Brass and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise on the demography of sub-Saharan Africa contains materials on age and sex composition, fertility, and mortality. Sets of demographic data are emerging that provide the completeness and specificity required for critical evaluation and analysis. The main body of the work consists of case studies on the Republic of the Congo, French-speaking territories, Portuguese territories, the Sudan, and Nigeria. Evidence is described in critical detail, methods of analysis are presented in full; and the reader is given the basis for judging the quality of the estimates. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Demography of Tropical Africa written by William Brass and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Demography of Tropical Africa, will be forthcoming.
Download or read book Demographic Change in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview includes chapters on child mortality, adult mortality, fertility, proximate determinants, marriage, internal migration, international migration, and the demographic impact of AIDS.
Download or read book The Demography of South Africa written by Tukufu Zuberi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study of South Africa provides a unique look at the interplay of demographic, social and economic processes in a society undergoing rapid change as a result of the collapse of apartheid. It uses data from the first post-apartheid census as the basis for analysis of fertility, mortality within the context of HIV/AIDS, migration, education, employment, and household structure. These census data are complemented by large-scale household surveys and data from a partial registration system to study the relationships among various demographic, economic, and social phenomena. For the first time the demographic consequences of both the longer-term impact of apartheid policies and the policies of the new South Africa are examined and compared. This comprehensive reference links the demographic behavior of South Africa's various population groups to social, economic, and political inequalities created by policies of separate and unequal development. Prepared under the auspices of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, it is an essential resource for all scholars and practitioners in the field.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of African Demography written by Clifford O. Odimegwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of African population dynamics, variations, causes and consequences, demonstrating the real-world applications of research in policies and programmes. African demography has come of age. Over 50 years, the discipline has grown exponentially in the number of training and research institutions, specialist experts and academic output, all with an aim of addressing the enormous demographic challenges faced by the continent. The book draws on old and emerging analytical tools to explore the relationships between population dynamics and social, economic, cultural and political environments from African perspectives. Key topics include fertility, sexual behaviours, healthcare, ageing, mortality, migration, displacement, the causes and consequences of demographic changes and teaching and research developments in African demography. The Routledge Handbook of African Demography will be an essential resource for students and researchers of African demography, sociology, development and cultural studies.
Download or read book Africa s Population In Search of a Demographic Dividend written by Hans Groth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows. It offers a detailed analysis of what conditions must be met in order for the region to take full economic advantage of ongoing population dynamics. As the book makes clear, the region will need to accelerate reforms to cope with its demographic transition, in particular the decline of fertility. The continent will need to foster human capital formation through renewed efforts in the areas of education, health and employment. This will entail a true vision and determination on the part of African leaders and their development partners. The book will help readers to gain solid knowledge of the demographic trends and provide insights into socioeconomic policies that eventually might lead sub-Saharan Africa into a successful future.
Download or read book Methods of Demographic Analysis written by Farhat Yusuf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and analyses of fertility, mortality, life tables, migration and demographic events such as marriage, education and labour force are described while later chapters cover multiple decrement tables, population projections, the importance of testing and smoothing demographic data, the stable population model and demographic software. An emphasis on practical aspects and the use of real-life examples based on data from around the globe make this book accessible, whilst comprehensive references and links to data and other resources on the internet help readers to explore further. The text is concise and well written, making it ideally suited to a wider audience from students to academics and teachers. Students of demography, geography, sociology, economics, as well as professionals, academics and students of marketing, human resource management, and public health who have an interest in population issues will all find this book useful.
Download or read book Reproduction and Social Context in Sub Saharan Africa written by Samuel Agyei-Mensah and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no region matches sub-Saharan Africa in its social and cultural diversity. In this collection of micro-demographic studies, the authors examine how the diversity of this region influences reproductive behavior. The empirical studies, distributed throughout the continent, are localized, in-depth studies that give special attention to contextual effects of social structure and social organization. A diverse range of topics is addressed including, adolescent sexuality and the effects of early childbearing on later fertility, the impact of development programs on fertility and the association between social organization, social diffusion, and reproductive regime. Highly revealing of the determinants of reproduction in Africa, these studies serve as a model for a new mode of demographic research. The chapters are arranged by geographical regions of the continent, with an introductory chapter outlining the editors' vision of a micro-demographic enterprise and a concluding chapter placing the African fertility transition in the context of the global fertility transition. This volume inspires fresh thinking and theorizing about demographic change, not only in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in all low-income settings.
Download or read book Essentials of Demographic Analysis for Africa written by G. M. K. Kpedekpo and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demographic trends in sub Saharan Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Techniques of Population Analysis written by S.S. Halli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing the most recent developments in statistical modeling as applied to population studies, the authors interpret results obtained from available software and apply these results to current research issues.
Download or read book Demographic data for development in Sub Saharan Africa written by Wendy Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continuity and Change in Sub Saharan African Demography written by Clifford O. Odimegwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan African censuses, profiling demographic changes, trends, patterns and consequences in the region. Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, accessible, simple and topical, this volume is perfectly suited to researchers, students and lecturers who are interested in understanding sub-Saharan African population dynamics and issues.
Download or read book Educational Expansion Demographic Transitions and Implications for Women s Employment in Sub Saharan Africa 1991 2005 written by Fatou Jah and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the lead of other developing regions, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced an expansion of schooling, accompanied by delays in marriage and lower fertility. Theoretically, these trends stand to foster women's employment and reduce gender inequalities at the family, labor market, and national levels. A variety of cogent arguments about why African countries could reap socioeconomic dividends from current socio-demographic transformations exist. But the evidence has been spotty, reflecting a number of limitations in theory, data, research design and substantive focus. The goal of this research is to address some of these limitations using a longitudinal approach and triangulating evidence from multiple sources and countries. Building on recent changes within countries and the diversity of national experiences, I attempt a large-scale empirical analysis to document the size and sources of changes in womens labor force participation in sub-Saharan Africa between 1991 and 2005. To this end, I adopt an innovative empirical strategy: 1) I use nationally representative and comparative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data on 21 African countries to build a large-scale longitudinal household level dataset of over 404,000 cases. 2) Next, I classify the countries into employment regimes based on country development stage to facilitate comparison. 3) I then examine how gender and national contexts affect this relationship by complementing the DHS dataset with qualitative data and retrospective event history data for an in-depth contextual analysis. Finally and importantly, I examine the theoretical logic and cumulative life course effects of schooling, marriage and fertility by triangulating three methodological principles in micro-macro framework. The overall results are insightful. With respect to schooling and inconsistent with the human capital perspective, educated women have generally not reaped the anticipated benefits, especially in the formal labor market, even as they are more likely to work compared to their non-literate peers. In contrast, the fertility findings are mixed. Fertility decline is likely to yield economic and social returns ultimately, thus challenging the role incompatibility thesis in about 29 percent of the study countries. The evidence on marriage is the strongest. It is driving the changes, whether gains or reversals, in women's formal employment in 95 percent of the sampled countries, providing little support for economic specialization thesis. The above study insights reveal several policy directions for SSA. While women's schooling is important in its own right, with additional health and social gains, a comprehensive rather than unilateral policy focus on formal education should be pursued. In the same vein, a one-sided emphasis on reduced fertility and delayed marriage without providing women opportunities to access and retain secure and stable jobs can be pointless. Instead, context-specific marriage-related policies focusing on couples and emphasizing healthy and appropriate marriage timing, sustained across the life course should be the new direction. Life-long marital relations that are mutually beneficial to both partners would improve women's socioeconomic status with the latter, in turn, being the more sustainable route to low fertility and poverty reduction. In terms of research, these transition effects unfold in a multiphasic and stage-dependent manner, underscoring the importance of multi-method triangulation in a longitudinal framework.
