Bücher von David A. Swanson

This book deals with macro and micro aspects of population change and their inter-face with socio-economic factors and impact. It investigates the organic nature of the relationships between socio-economic factors and population change and the feedback loops that affect socio-economic organisation and behaviour.

This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a massive wartime in-migration. The narrative also shows the demographic legacy of the Board and, ultimately, provides an unforgettable look into the creation and evolution of applied demography.Inside, readers will discover how Washington State struggled to keep up with the unexpected needs for housing, transportation, schools, and public utilities for the hundreds of thousands of migrants who came to work in industries that practically developed overnight with the mobilization for World War II. The author recounts how Professor Calvin F. Schmid, who led the Washington State Census Board, and his team developed methods of population estimation that are still in use today.In the process, the narrative reveals how populationfigures were gathered, compared, and projected at a time when the hand calculator was considered cutting-edge technology. The book also details how methods were refined and improved over time as well as how those involved developed new ways to obtain and, more importantly, utilize the information. With the aid of archived materials, personal interviews, and rich personal accounts, this book will inform and inspire practicing and academic demographers as well as planners, policy-makers, historians, and interested readers.

This book offers guidance to demographers, planners, market analysts, and others called on to construct state and local population projections. It gives suggestions for dealing with special populations, unique circumstances, and inadequate or unreliable data.

This book presents a range of views on consumer behaviour, showing how demographic perspectives enhance these perspectives. Includes tools for assessment of population characteristics as determinants of market size, composition and potential for many products.

This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status. A variety of methods have been proffered over the past many decades, in a large variety of venues;

This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic methods of analysis and covers recent developments in demographic methods. It shows how to make calculations using real-life examples based on contemporary real-world data from around the globe.

It so happened that all three of us had been entertaining the notion of writing a book on state and local population projections. The last comprehensive treatment of state and local population projections was Don Pittenger's excellent work Projecting State and Local Populations (1976).

Subnational Population Estimates synthesizes the different methods used for estimating both DeJure and DeFacto populations. This volume provides a comprehensive description of methods that fit within the demographic tradition, while linking them with the sample survey traditions.