This book introduces demographic applications which employ current demographic concepts and theories and cutting-edge methods and findings, all of which have and will continue to have an impact in the broad area of social demography. Through providing an introduction to new and current developments in demography, methodological and statistical issues, data issues, issues of health, aging and mortality, and issues in social demography, this book gives new insights into data, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that will assist readers in their use of demography in their research. At the same time it shows demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians, methodologists, planners, and marketers how they may learn and improve upon the quality and relevance of their demographic investigations now and in the future.
Part I. Introduction.
Chapter
1. Developments in Demography (Joachim
Singelmann and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.).
Chapter
2. Whats Changing the
World? A Demographers Perspective (Wendy Baldwin).- Part II. Methodological
and Statistical Issues.
Chapter
3. A Demographic Evaluation of the
Stability of ACS Estimates for ACS Test Sites: 2000 to 2011 (J. Gregory
Robinson and Eric B. Jensen).
Chapter
4. Approaches for Addressing Missing
Data in Statistical Analyses of Female and Male Adolescent Fertility
(Eugenia Conde and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.).
Chapter
5. Considering Local
Measures of Poverty Using Shift-Share Techniques: A Comparative Analysis
(Gregory L. Hamilton and Melody Muldrow).- Part III. Data Issues.
Chapter
6.
Potential Explanations for the high Net Undercount of Young Children in the
U.S. Census (William P. OHare).
Chapter
7. Babies no Longer: Projecting
the 100+ Population. (Howard Hogan and Sandra Colby).
Chapter
8. Cohort
approaches using educational data of the Czech Republic: Massification of
Tertiary Education and its Impact on Education Attainment. (Vladimķr Hulķk,
Klįra Hulķkovį Tesįrkovį).
Chapter
9. The Socio-Demographic Consequences of
the Deep-Water Horizon Oil Spill: Measurement Issues for Policy Mitigation
(Joachim Singelmann and Corey Sparks).- Part IV. Issues of Health, Aging, and
Mortality.
Chapter
10. Determinants of Female Sterilization in Brazil,
20012007 (Ernesto F. L. Amaral).
Chapter
11. Potential reduction in
mortality associated with the shifts of population educational structures in
the Czech Republic (Jitka Rychtaķkovį, Klįra Hulķkovį Tesįrkovį).
Chapter
12. Aging and family support in the State of Mexico (Viridiana Sosa
Mįrquez).
Chapter
13. Impact of population ageing on household structure:
evidence from the Czech Republic (Pavlķna Habartovį, Klįra Hulķkovį
Tesįrkovį, Olga Sivkovį).
Chapter
14. Intimate Homicide Mortality in Alaska
from a Demographic Perspective (Donna Shai).
Chapter
15. Correlates of
Cognitive Decline among the Elderly: The Case of Mexicans in Mexico and in
the United States (Silvia Mejia Arango, Joachim Singelmann, Rogelio Saenz).-
Part V. Issues in Social Demography.
Chapter
16. The Urban Hierarchies in
China and the United States (Qian Xiong and Dudley L. Poston, Jr.).
Chapter
17. School District Formation as an Explanation for Spatial and Temporal
Dimensions of Concentrated Poverty in Bexar County, Texas (Matthew
Martinez).
Chapter
18. Marriage Selectivity & Stepfamily Formation
(tentative title) (Gabriela Sįnchez Soto).
Chapter
19. Minority Student
Participation in International Programs: A Survey of Undergraduate Students
Attending HBCUs (Komanduri S. Murty and Jimmy D. McCamey, Jr.).
Joachim Singelmann is the Deans Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His previous positions were at Louisiana State University, United Nations Population Division, University of California-San Diego, and Vanderbilt University. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. Singelmanns research areas include industrial restructuring, transitions from central planning to market economies, demographic development, sociodemographic consequences of disasters, and inequality and poverty. His research has been funded by several foundations including NSF and the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, the Interior, and Agriculture. Singelmann is the author of many books and his research has been published in the major social science journals in the United States and Europe, including Demography, American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Rural Sociology, and Demographic Research. Singelmann has been the editor of Rural Sociology and President of the Southern Demographic Association and the Rural Sociological Society.
Dudley L. Poston, Jr. is Professor of Sociology and the Abell Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Poston also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Demography at Peoples University, Beijing, China; Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; and Adjunct Professor of Demography at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. He previously served on the faculties of Cornell University (1988-1992) and the University of Texas at Austin (1970-1988). He has co-authored/edited eighteen books and over 320 journal articles, book chapters, and research reports. The 2nd edition of his demography text (with Leon Bouvier), Populationand Society: An Introduction to Demography was published in January, 2017. Poston is presently editing the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Population (Springer). At Texas A&M University he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Statistics, Demography, and Demographic Methods.
