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…
Part I: Childlessness in Europe: An Overview: Analyzing Childlessness: Michaela Kreyenfeld & Dirk Konietzka -- Childlessness in Europe: Reconstructing Long-Term Trends among Women Born in 1900-1972: Tomáš Sobotka -- Part II: Country Studies: Childlessness in the UK: Ann Berrington -- Childlessness in France: Katja Köppen, Magali Mazuy & Laurent Toulemon -- Childlessness in East and West Germ…
1: Introduction: “diverging destinies” and “pattern of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic transition -- 1.1: General patterns of change -- 1.2: Posited implications -- 1.3: Posited explanations -- 1.4: Variation across time and space -- 2: Summary of previous research on Japan -- 2.1: Theoretical value of focus on Japan -- 2.2: Summary of previous work on educational differ…
Chapter 1 New Directions and Transformations of Urbanization in China -- Chapter 2 New Urbanization and Industrial Performance: Implications for Western China -- Chapter 3 Regional Differences in China’s Urbanization: The Case of Northwestern City Agglomerations -- Chapter 4 Urban Development in China’s Ethnic Minority Areas -- Chapter 5 Infrastructure Development and Urbanization in China …
1. Setting the scene for a new era of focus group research; Rosaline S. Barbour -- Part I: Using Focus Groups in New Settings -- 2. Accessing the closed world of professional football; Chris Platts and Andy Smith -- 3. Outsourcing qualitative health research; Laurence Kohn & Wendy Christiaens -- 4. Cross-cultural focus group discussions; Monique M. Hennink -- 5. Exploring Sex, HIV & ‘Sensitiv…