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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.; University of Wisconsin--Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology.; Center for Population Research (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.))
Group Author: Taeuber, Karl E. (Editor); Bumpass, Larry L. (Editor); Sweet, James A. (Editor)
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 1978.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in population.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126826500
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Index Number: HB849
CLC: C924.712-532
Contents: Some problems of fertility research / Norman B. Ryder -- The pervasiveness of postwar fertility trends in the United States / Ronald R. Rindfuss and James A. Sweet -- Age and the sociology of fertility: How old is too old? / Ronald R. Rindfuss and Larry L. Bumpass -- Couples' decision-making processes regarding fertility / Linda J. Beckman -- Spatial aspects of population: An overview / Amos H. Hawley -- Overcrowding, isolation, and human behaviour: Exploring the extremes in population distribution / Omer R. Galle and Walter R. Gove -- The organizational components of expanding metropolitan systems / Franklin D. Wilson -- The new pattern of nonmetropolitan population change / Calvin L. Beale and Glenn V. Gufuitt -- Mobility and stratification: An overview / David D. McFarland -- Changes in the socioeconomic stratification of the races / David L. Featherman and Robert M. Hauser -- Statistical histories of the life cycle of birth cohorts: The transition from schoolboy to adult male / Halliman H. Winsborough -- Some methodological issues in the analysis of longitudianal surveys / Burton Singer and Seymour Spilerman -- The next fifteen years in demographicanalysis / Samuel H. Preston -- Organization of demographic research: Problems of the next decade / Halliman H. Winsborough.