Demographic Projection Techniques for Regions and Smaller Areas: A Primer

by H. Craig Davis

The ability to project population trends is of vital importance foranyone involved in planning -- in the public as well as the privatesector. This book provides the tools for making such projections anddiscusses four principal approaches: mathematical extrapolation,comparative methods, cohort survival and migration models. Following the introductory chapter, which considers the need anduses for population projections, the next two chapters are concernedwith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774805013
• ISBN13: 9780774805018
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"