Overview
- Most comprehensive treatment of subnational demographic estimates
- A rigorously scholarly work combined with a user-oriented pragmatic approach
- A broad range of real-world examples of the applications and uses
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 31)
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Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing types of estimation from both the demographic and sample-survey traditions and is a self-contained primer that combines academic rigor with a wealth of real-world examples that are useful models for demographers.
Between censuses, which are expensive, administratively complex, and thus infrequent, demographers and government officials must estimate population using either demographic modeling techniques or statistical surveys that sample a fraction of residents. These estimates play a central role in vital decisions that range from funding allocations and rate-setting to education, health and housing provision. They also provide important data to companies undertaking market research. However, mastering small-area and sub-national population estimation is complicated by scattered, incomplete and outdated academic sources—an issue this volume tackles head-on. Rapidly increasing population mobility is making inter-census estimation ever more important to strategic planners. This book will make the theory and techniques involved more accessible to anyone with an interest in developing or using population estimates.
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Keywords
- "Postcensal" estimation methods
- Administrative planning
- Applied demography
- Census statistics
- DeFacto populations
- DeJure populations
- Demographic and statistical sample surveys
- Demographic tradition
- Demography
- Estimation Methods
- Extrapolation methods
- Housing unit method
- National and subnational fund allocations
- Population change
- Population registration system
- Subnational areas
- Subnational estimation methods
- Survey controls
- Urban planning
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book is a comprehensive source on methods of estimation, and would be especially valuable to those responsible for the production of local area population estimates in the public sector. … this book is very current and comprehensive. It provides useful reading materials for students, statisticians, demographers, and especially those responsible for producing population estimates. The users of population estimates will also benefit from reading this book.” (Ravi B. P. Verma, Canadian Studies in population, Vol. 42 (3-4), 2015)
“With the publication of this volume, for the first time a book which is both a comprehensive and rigorous scholarly work as well as a user oriented and pragmatic methodological source has become available.”
Steve Murdock, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Subnational Population Estimates
Authors: David A. Swanson, Jeff Tayman
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8954-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8953-3Published: 24 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9713-0Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8954-0Published: 23 May 2012
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 414
Topics: Demography, Statistics, general