MTU Library Catalogue

The demography of tropical Africa / William Brass ... [et al.]

By: Princeton University. Office of Population Research.
Contributor(s): Brass, William.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1968Description: xxix, 539 p. : ill., maps. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Africa, Sub-Saharan -- PopulationDDC classification: 301.32
Contents:
Part I: Fertility, mortality and nuptiality in tropical Africa: Data, methods of analysis and summary of estimates -- Characteristics of African demographic data ; Marriage in African censuses and inquiries ; Fertility in Nigeria / Etienne van de Walle -- Methods of analysis and estimation / William Brass and Ansley J. Coale -- Summary of estimates of fertility and mortality / Ansley J. Coale and Frank Lorimer -- Part II: Case studies of the demography of areas covered by particular kinds of censuses or surveys -- The demography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Anatole Romaniuk -- The demography of French-speaking territories covered by special sample inquiries: Upper Volta, Dahomey, Guinea, North Cameroon, and other areas / William Brass -- The demography of the Portuguese territories: Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea / Don F. Heisel -- The demography of the Sudan: an analysis of the 1955/1956 census / Paul Demeny -- Fertility in Nigeria / Etienne Van de Walle.

Papers resulting from a project of the Office of Population Research, Princeton University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 528-532) and index.

Part I: Fertility, mortality and nuptiality in tropical Africa: Data, methods of analysis and summary of estimates -- Characteristics of African demographic data ; Marriage in African censuses and inquiries ; Fertility in Nigeria / Etienne van de Walle -- Methods of analysis and estimation / William Brass and Ansley J. Coale -- Summary of estimates of fertility and mortality / Ansley J. Coale and Frank Lorimer -- Part II: Case studies of the demography of areas covered by particular kinds of censuses or surveys -- The demography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Anatole Romaniuk -- The demography of French-speaking territories covered by special sample inquiries: Upper Volta, Dahomey, Guinea, North Cameroon, and other areas / William Brass -- The demography of the Portuguese territories: Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea / Don F. Heisel -- The demography of the Sudan: an analysis of the 1955/1956 census / Paul Demeny -- Fertility in Nigeria / Etienne Van de Walle.