Preface -- 1. Introduction and Goals -- 2. Alternative Formulas for Selected Indices -- 3. Overview of the “Difference of Means” Framework -- 4. Index-Specific Implementations of Difference of Means Formulations -- 5. Index Differences in Registering Area Group Proportions -- 6. Empirical Relationships among Indices -- 7.Distinctions between Displacement and Separation -- 8. Further Comment…
Part I. Conceptual issues -- Chapter 1. Epistemology of Complexity (Alberto Peruzzi) -- Chapter 2. Building Knowledge. Between Measure and Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach (Rocco Sacconaghi) -- Part 2. Methodological Issues -- Chapter 3. Socio-Economic Statistics for A Complex World: Perspectives and Challenges in the Big Data Era (Marco Fattore) -- Chapter 4. Developing Indicators and Mana…
Introduction -- Part I: Demographic Information for Decision-Making: Case Studies -- 1. Demographic-Based Market Analysis, China and India -- 2. Health Trend Drivers in the UK -- 3. Projecting VA Benefit Use in Texas -- 4. Fire Injuries in Anchorage.-5. Projecting the Need for Courtroom Service Provision in Australia -- 6. Projecting Assisted Living in Us -- 7. Projecting the Elderly in Austral…
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Creating a basic cohort model -- Chapter 2 The life table -- Chapter 3 The multiple increment-decrement life table -- Chapter 4 Modelling fertility -- Chapter 5 The base population -- Chapter 6 International migration -- Conclusion.This book is a practical, step-by-step introduction to microsimulation in demography. It shows how to use Modgen, a powerful and free micro…
Response Processes in the Context of Validity: Setting the Stage (Anita M. Hubley and Bruno D. Zumbo) -- Chapter 2. Response Processes and Measurement Validity in Health Psychology (Mark R. Beauchamp and Desmond McEwan) -- Chapter 3. Contributions of Response Process Analysis to the Validation of an Assessment of Higher Education Students’ Competence in Business and Economics (Sebastian Brüc…
Chapter 1: Introduction: M. Nazrul Hoque, Beverly Pecotte, and Mary A. McGehee -- Section I: Mortality and Morbidity Trends in Developed Countries: Chapter 2: Are Americans Getting Sicker? An Analysis of Emerging Morbidity Trends: Richard K. Thomas -- Chapter 3: Reproductive Health Policy Variability among the States over Time: Implications of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 for Health Research…
Part 1: Comparing responses to different survey questions on the same topic -- Problems and conventional solutions -- chap. 1 Diversity in survey items and the comparability problem -- Part 2: Innovation 1: The happiness scale interval study -- chap. 2 The happiness scale interval study -- chap. 3 Use of happiness scale interval studies in this book -- chap. 4 Equivalence of rating scales using…
Chapter 1. Towards more complexity in subjective well-being studies; Gaël Brulé and Filomena Maggino -- Part I. Conceptual Issues -- Chapter 2. Can Good Life Be Measured? The dimensions and measurability of a life worth living; Frank Martela -- Chapter 3. The Subjective Object of Well-Being Studies. Well-being as the experience of being well; Mariano Rojas -- Part II -- Measurement issues -…
Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Basic Demographic Concepts -- Chapter 3 Sources of Demographic Information -- Chapter 4 Forecasting Population Size and Composition -- Chapter 5 Forecasting Using Modified Cohort Change Ratios -- Chapter 6 Forecasting Uncertainty -- Chapter 7 Forecasting School Enrollment Size and Composition -- Chapter 8 Forecasting Other Characteristi…