Event history analysis - the study of individual life histories - has developed rapidly over the past few years. This book illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject. The number of surveys undertaken throughout the world to collect detailed information on the timing...

The Quality of Life in Rural Asia presents three central objectives in the light of rural Asia's 30-year population increase. They are to review trends and patterns in the quality of life, identify and analyse options for private and public policies and programmes to improve the quality of life,...