Title:
Demography : textbook for the South African student
Author:
Mostert, Willem Petrus.
ISBN:
9780796918802
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Uniform Title:
Demografie. English
Publication Information:
Pretoria : Human Sciences Research Council, 1998.
Physical Description:
237 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
General Note:
Rev. and translated from: Demografie / W.P. Mostert, J.S. Oosthuizen, B.E. Hofmeyr.
Contents:
The purpose of this book is to introduce students to demographic methods and concepts on the basis of South African examples. Formal demography and the study of populations. Sources of demographic data. Sources of South African population statistics. Population growth. Demographic transition. World population. South African population. Age and gender structure. Mortality. HIV/AIDS pandemic. Fertility. Nuptiality and the family cycle. Migration. International and internal migration. Population projections by the United Nations. Projections of the South African population.
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