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Data bases and statistical systems: demography

  • This article deals with the availability of large-scale data for demographic analysis. The main sources of data that demographers work with are censuses data, microcensus data, population registers, other administrative data, survey data, and big data. Data of this kind can be used to generate demographic rates and study demographic processes, such as family formation, marriage, divorce, residential mobility, and death. The advantages and pitfalls of different types of data are summarized.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Michaela KreyenfeldORCiD, F.J. Willekens
Editor(s):James Wright
Parent Title (English):International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
Publisher:Elsevier
Place of Publisher:Oxford
Publication year:2015
First Page:735
Last Page:741
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.41013-5
ISBN:978-0-08-097086-8
Release Date:2015/10/13
Tag:Administrative data; Big data; Births; Data processing; Deaths; Demographic rates; Demography; Marriages; Migration; Population registers; Residential moves; Statistical information; Survey data; Vital events; Vital statistics
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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