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Book SynopsisAlthough mathematical demography has traditionally studied the so-called stable population (fixed mortality and fertility schedules), Ansley Coale investigates now the dynamics of population growth and structure--the changing age composition of a population as birth and death rates fluctuate. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Lib
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*List of Figures. List of Tables, pg. xi*CHAPTER 1. Fertility, Mortality, and Age Distributions: Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. The Stable Population, pg. 16*CHAPTER 3. Convergence of a Population to the Stable Form, pg. 61*CHAPTER 4. Population with Fertility that Changes at a Constant Rate, pg. 117*CHAPTER 5. Birth Sequences and Age Distributions with Changing Mortality, pg. 152*CHAPTER 6. The Birth Sequence and the Age Distribution That Occur When Fertility Is Subject to Repetitive Fluctuations, pg. 165*CHAPTER 7. The Relation Between the Birth Sequence and Sequence of Fertility Schedules in Any Time Pattern Derived by Fourier Analysis, pg. 194*CHAPTER 8. Conclusion, pg. 206*GLOSSARY OF MOST SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS, pg. 219*INDEX, pg. 225
