This book offers an overview of the latest developments in contemporary population issues by examining the current unprecedented changes in fertility, family behavior, mortality, and migration. It explores new theoretical perspectives that seek to incorporate narratives of the future,...

This first volume of two provides quantitative techniques to estimate the healthy life years lost by expanding the classical life tables to include the proportion with disability calculated from life tables, along with a final part using the Sullivan method. The provided templates apply...

This second volume of two complements volume 1 by discussing models, risk and surveys in applied demography. Models and modeling cover a wide range of data analysis methods and techniques to cope with demographic data including principal components, clustering, GARCH models and dynamic...

This book addresses from a methodological perspective a research problem, how to forecast the international migration component in a way that could be then used for population forecasts using the probabilistic approach. All forecasts are made in the conditions of uncertainty, which is an...