Population statistics and their compilation; principal contributors /

• Main Author: Wolfenden, Hugh Herbert, 1892-1968
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, N.Y. : The Actuarial Society of America, 1925
• Series: Actuarial studies ; n. 3
• Subjects: ESTADISTICAS VITALES; CENSOS; METODOLOGIA; MORTALIDAD; ESTADISTICAS DEMOGRAFICAS
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Table of Contents:

• 1. Introductory
• 2. The census
• 3. The gegistration of births, deaths and marriages
• 4. The reliabiblity of census and registration statistics, and the nature of the errors therein
• 5. The preliminary adjustment for errors of age in census and registration statistics and "estimates of population"
• 6. The mathematical relationships between births, deaths and populations, and the formulae for the rates of mortality
• 7. The construction of mortality tables from population statistics
• 8. The construction of abridged mortality tables from population statistics
• 9. Methods of comparing the mortalities of different communities
• 10. Mortality by case of death
• 11. Occupational mortality
• 12. The use of census and registration data in the construction of tables relating to marriages, births, orphanhood, etc.
• 13. Sickness data
• 14. Conclusion.