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The Population Association of America (PAA) is a non-profit scientific professional association dedicated to the study of issues related to population and demography. [3] The PAA was established by Henry Pratt Fairchild and Frederick Osborn , [ 4 ] with funds secured by Margaret Sanger from the Milbank Memorial Fund . [ 5 ]
In 1964, Laslett and Tony Wrigley co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. With funding from the Social Science Research Council, the Cambridge Group worked alongside amateur volunteers on local records, and established the journal Local Population Studies. [3]
Bongaarts was born in Tegelen, the Netherlands, in 1945. [2] [3] He obtained a degree in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1968.Bongaarts subsequently moved to the United States where he studied physiology and biomedical engineering at the University of Illinois and obtained his PhD in 1972, with a dissertation titled: "A Cybernetic Model of the Demographic ...
Steven Ruggles (born May 8, 1955) is Regents Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. [1] He is best known as the creator of IPUMS , the world's largest population database.
The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100. Data source: United Nations — World Population Prospects 2017. Demography (from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, society' and -γραφία (-graphía) 'writing, drawing, description') [1] is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the ...
Population Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering demography. It was established in 1947 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Population Investigation Committee. [1] The founding editor-in-chief was David Glass, who edited the journal from 1947 until his death in 1978. [2]
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Thomas McKeown (1912–1988) was a British physician, epidemiologist and historian of medicine. [1] [2] Largely based on demographic data from England and Wales, McKeown argued that the population growth since the late eighteenth century was due to improving economic conditions, i.e. better nutrition, rather than to better hygiene, public health measures, and improved medicine.