Università Roma Tre

Introduction to Demography: definition of demography and population; the historical and actual demographic sources
Dimension and structure of population: the total of population, growth rates; population structure.
The dynamics of population: generic and specific rates; standardization; the demographic transition.
The analysis of demographic trends: Lexis diagram; rates and probabilities; longitudinal and yearly analysis.
Mortality: the measures of study on mortality; life-table; child-mortality.
Marriage trend: the marriage rates
Fertility: birth rates; fertility rates; reproductivity.
Migration: main migration sources; migration rates.
Forecasting: the main method of demographic projection.

Poston, D. L., & Micklin, M. (Eds.). (2005). Handbook of population. Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Part I Population Structure
1 Age and Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Dudley L. Poston Jr.
2 Population Distribution and Suburbanization . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Avery M. Guest and Susan K. Brown
5 Demography of Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Marc A. Garcia, Catherine García, and Kyriakos Markides

Part II Population Processes
12 Fertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
S. Philip Morgan and Anna Rybińska
13 Infant Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Maria Perez-Patron and Bethany DeSalvo
14 Adult Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer, Patrick M. Krueger,
and Justin M. Vinneau
15 Internal Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Michael J. White and David P. Lindstrom
16 International Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean, and Sabrina Nasir