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Population Trends*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

R. R. Kuczynski
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Population trends are determined by fertility and mortality. The crudest method of measuring fertility and mortality consists in relating the number of births and of deaths to the total population. The birth and death rates thus obtained show the proportion by which a population increases through births and decreases through deaths. But since these rates are calculated without regard to the sex and age composition of the population they do not afford an adequate gauge for the measurement of fertility and mortality The disturbing influence of the sex and age composition is eliminated by computing fertility tables and life tables.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 21 , Issue 243 , May 1937 , pp. 99 - 105
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1937

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A Paper to the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association, 5th January, 1937.

References

Page 99 of note * A paper to the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association, 5th January, 1937.

Page 99 of note † Philosophical Transactions, Giving some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in many Considerable Parts of the World, vol. xvii, January, 1693, pp. 596-610.

Page 100 of note * See Kongl. Svenska Vetenkaps Academiens Nya Handlingar, vol. xxi, 1800, p. 323.

Page 100 of note † See Kuczynski, , “Zur Statistik der Fruchtbarkeit”, Bericht über den XIV Kongress für Hygiene und Demographie, Berlin, 1907, vol. iii, p. 1476 Google Scholar.

Page 101 of note * See Statistisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Berlin, 1884, pp. 30-34.

Page 103 of note * von Bortkiewicz, L., “Die Sterbeziffer und der Frauenüberschuss in der Stationären und in der Progressiven Bevölkerung, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage der Berechnung der ‘Verlebten Zeit’,” Bulletin de l’institut international de statistique, 1911, vol. xix, part ii, pp. 63–138 Google Scholar.

Page 103 of note † Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1925, vol. xx, pp. 305-339.