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The Future of Historical Family Demography [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Sociology, 2012
An explosion of new data sources describing historical family composition is opening unprecedented opportunities for discovery and analysis. The new data will allow comparative multilevel analysis of spatial patterns and will support studies of the transformation of living arrangements over the past 200 years.
openaire   +2 more sources

Environmental science applications with Rapid Integrated Mapping and analysis System (RIMS) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Rapid Integrated Mapping and analysis System (RIMS) has been developed at the University of New Hampshire as an online instrument for multidisciplinary data visualization, analysis and manipulation with a focus on hydrological applications.
Gordov, E.   +4 more
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The Causes of Changes in Fertility in Northern Namibia

open access: yesFinnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2017
The main aim of this study was to analyse fertility change in Ovamboland (North-Central Namibia) (1927–2010) and the Kavango region (North-East Namibia) (1935–1979) in Northern Namibia.
Veijo Notkola   +2 more
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World Religion Database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article reviews the new database released by Brill entitled World Religion Database (WRD).
Dekker, Jennifer
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Feminists really do count : the complexity of feminist methodologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We are delighted to be presenting this special issue on the topic of feminism and quantitative methods. We believe that such an issue is exceptionally timely.
Christina Hughes   +5 more
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Historical Chinese Microdata. 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group

open access: yesHistorical Life Course Studies, 2020
The Lee-Campbell Group has spent forty years constructing and analysing individual-level datasets based largely on Chinese archival materials to produce a scholarship of discovery.
Cameron Campbell, James Lee
doaj   +1 more source

The mortality of the Italian population: Smoothing techniques on the Lee--Carter model

open access: yes, 2011
Several approaches have been developed for forecasting mortality using the stochastic model. In particular, the Lee-Carter model has become widely used and there have been various extensions and modifications proposed to attain a broader interpretation ...
D'Amato, Valeria   +2 more
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Comparative population genetic structure and demographic patterns of two killifish species (Aphanius baeticus and Aphanius iberus) at the Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2015
The killifish, Aphanius baeticus and Aphanius iberus (Cyprinodontidae) are endemic species restricted to river basins on Spain’s southern Atlantic and Mediterranean coastline, respectively.
Elena G Gonzalez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The end of secularization in Europe? A socio-demographic perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Much of the current debate over secularization in Europe focuses only on the direction of religious change, and pays exclusive attention to social causes.
A. Goujon   +6 more
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Die Erfindung der Demographie und die Bildung des Staates

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 1997
In both the academic and the political sphere, demography is a discipline which enjoys widespread approval. This consensus rests to a great extent on the specific categories employed, namely those applicable to civic status, whose historical conditions ...
Rémi Lenoir
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