Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century

1. Introduction
Nazrul Hoque, David A. Swanson

2. Some Challenges Facing Federal Statistics in the United States
Edward J. Spar

3. Overview of the 2010 Census Alternative Questionnaire Experiment: Race and Hispanic Origin Research
Sonya Rastogi, Nicholas A. Jones

4. Quality of Age Data at the PUMA Level in the 3-Year Estimates from the American Community Survey
Arun Peter Lobo, Joseph J. Salvo

5. A Sociology of Official Unauthorized Statistics: Estimation or Guesstimation?
Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield

6. English Language Learners: An Exercise in Applied Demography
Richard R. Verdugo

7. Elderly Asian Immigrants and Challenges of Living in the United States of America
Kittiwan Junrith, Erika Symonette, Hsiang Hsing Kung, Somporn Khunwishit

8. Characteristics of Afro-Descendants in Mexico: A Survey of the Costa Chica Area of the Oaxaca and Guerrero States
Komanduri S. Murty, Jehad Yasin

9. NAFTA, Industrial Concentration, Employment Volatility, Wages, and Internal and International Mexican Migration: 1990–2009
Miguel Flores, Mary Zey, Cinthya Caamal, Nazrul Hoque

10. Alcohol Buying Behaviour of Australian Households
Farhat Yusuf, Julian Meyrick

11. Demographic Cohorts and Marketing Research
Alison Yacyshyn

12. Effects of Corporate Form and Financials on Executive Backdating of Stock Options at the Turn of the Century: An Analysis of Pair-Matched Corporations
Don R. Warren, Mary Zey, John Garza

13. The Health Transition in Estonia: Breaking Away from the Soviet Legacy
Luule Sakkeus, Kati Karelson

14. The Rural-Urban Gradient and Life Expectancy in the United States, 1970–1990
Nazrul Hoque, David A. Swanson, Jeffrey A. Jordan

15. Demographic Changes in the United States of America: Challenges for Disaster Management
Somporn Khunwishit, Sudha Arlikatti

16. Mental Health and Suicide: An Ecological Hierarchical Analysis of U.S. Counties and States
Augustine J. Kposowa, Aikaterini Glyniadaki

17. The Grouped Answer Method for Estimating Immigration Status: Analysis of Data from the 2004 General Social Survey
Eric M. Larson, Judith A. Droitcour

18. Estimating Life Expectancy at Birth for Mexican Municipalities: An Application of a Regression-Based Technique
Miguel Flores, Benjamin Bradshaw, Nazrul Hoque

19. DOMICILE 1.0: An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Population Estimates at the Domicile Level
Cameron S. Griffith, David A. Swanson, Michael Knight

20. Demosim, Statistics Canada’s Microsimulation Model for Projecting Population Diversity
Éric Caron Malenfant, André Lebel, Laurent Martel

21. Expert and Local Knowledge: Poverty Researchers Meet Community Leaders
Joachim Singelmann, Dudley L. Poston, Rogelio Saenz

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