Author: D. J. van de Kaa
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Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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This study aims to make a significant contribution to knowledge about the demography of Papua-New Guinea's indigenous population. It presents information that was collected over the last half century or so by a great variety of people, and tries to reach reasonably firm conclusions on the population's vital rates, age structure and future growth by combining the most satisfactory elements to a plausible pattern. But the data are fragmentary and defective, and the best elements in them cannot always be identified by analysis. Sometimes, a fairly subjective judgement as to what might have gone wrong during their collection is necessary to explain obvious distortions. The interpretation of incomplete sets of data of doubtful accuracy is thus an important facet of the work undertaken here and model distributions are used in the process. Ideally, model and reference distributions should serve to 'discipline' reported data (Brass 1969). In the present case there often is, unfortunately, little information that can be disciplined and models are mainly used to bridge gaps that would otherwise put an end to the analysis. But as they are chosen as judiciously as possible and by taking all sources into account, this is probably the best alternative.
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Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: D. J. van de Kaa
Publisher: Purdue University Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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This liber amicorum, offered to Dirk van de Kaa on the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Demography at the University of Amsterdam, opens with a biography and a bibliography. The core of the book is formed by 32 essays in honour of Van de Kaa, written by colleagues and friends from all over the world, who have in common that in one way or another their paths have crossed his. Most of them are demographers, and the topics they chose for their contribution cover almost the entire range of demography and often connect to the activities and scientific topics for which Dirk van de Kaa has become so well-known, such as the Second Demographic Transition. Next to these demographic contributions, the book contains several essays from other disciplines, such as physical planning, geography, sociology, history, and general literature. Dirk van de Kaa retired as Professor of Demography at the University of Amsterdam at the end of 1998. He has played an important role in both Dutch and international demography since the early 1970s. He was the first Director of the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute, Scientific Secretary of the Royal Commission on Population, represented the Netherlands in the Population Commission of the United Nations, played a crucial role at the UN Population Conferences in Bucharest (1974), Mexico City (1984) and Cairo (1994), and was active in the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), which he founded. Van de Kaa also played an important role in establishing the postgraduate programme in demography pdoD (currently nethur-Demography).
Author: Ronald Skeldon
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Population
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: Australian National University
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Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Publisher: Aust. Bureau of Statistics
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Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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