Special Collection 13

Spatial Demography

Published 13 February 2013

This Special Collection—edited by Stephen A. Matthews—focuses on the utilization of geospatial data and application of spatial analytical tools to examine demographic and health related questions: including teenage pregnancy, child mortality, segregation and health, migration and rural livelihoods, simulation of population distributions across diverse contexts, and demography and crime. This Special Collection starts with an introductory paper focusing on specific spatial analytic methods and how they have been and can be used to inform demographic research. It also discusses future challenges for demographers as changes in data, technology and methods will likely change the way demographers think about the relationship between people and place, how they collect, and how they analyze their data. All other manuscripts in this Special Collection were prepared by participants of a spatial analysis training program based on summer workshops (held 2008-2011). The workshop series was supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – R25 HD057002.

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21 December 2005 | research article

Mortality tempo versus removal of causes of mortality: Opposite views leading to different estimations of life expectancy

Hervé Le Bras

Volume: 13 Article ID: 25
Pages: 615–640
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.25

15 December 2005 | research article

Lifesaving, lifetimes and lifetables

James W. Vaupel

Volume: 13 Article ID: 24
Pages: 597–614
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.24

07 December 2005 | descriptive finding

Modelling regional variation of first-time births in Denmark 1980-1994 by an age-period-cohort model

Lau Caspar Thygesen, Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Niels Keiding

Volume: 13 Article ID: 23
Pages: 573–596
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.23

24 November 2005 | reflection

Why does Sweden have such high fertility?

Jan M. Hoem

Volume: 13 Article ID: 22
Pages: 559–572
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.22

22 November 2005 | research article

Five period measures of longevity

John Bongaarts

Volume: 13 Article ID: 21
Pages: 547–558
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.21

17 November 2005 | research article

Decomposition analysis of Spanish life expectancy at birth: Evolution and changes in the components by sex and age

Rosa Gómez-Redondo, Carl Boe

Volume: 13 Article ID: 20
Pages: 521–546
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.20

17 November 2005 | research article

Cause-specific contributions to sex differences in adult mortality among whites and African Americans between 1960 and 1995

Irma T. Elo, Greg L. Drevenstedt

Volume: 13 Article ID: 19
Pages: 485–520
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.19

17 November 2005 | research article

Forecasting sex differences in mortality in high income nations: The contribution of smoking

Fred Pampel

Volume: 13 Article ID: 18
Pages: 455–484
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.18

17 November 2005 | research article

Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality: Relationships to changing gender roles and other societal trends

Ingrid Waldron, Christopher McCloskey, Inga Earle

Volume: 13 Article ID: 17
Pages: 415–454
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.17

17 November 2005 | research article

Estimates of mortality and population changes in England and Wales over the two World Wars

Dmitri A. Jdanov, Evgeny M. Andreev, Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir Shkolnikov

Volume: 13 Article ID: 16
Pages: 389–414
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.16

17 November 2005 | research article

The effects of war losses on mortality estimates for Italy: A first attempt

Dana Glei, Silvia Bruzzone, Graziella Caselli

Volume: 13 Article ID: 15
Pages: 363–388
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.15

17 November 2005 | descriptive finding

Official population statistics and the Human Mortality Database estimates of populations aged 80+ in Germany and nine other European countries

Dmitri A. Jdanov, Rembrandt D. Scholz, Vladimir Shkolnikov

Volume: 13 Article ID: 14
Pages: 335–362
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.14

17 November 2005 | research article

Population observatories as sources of information on mortality in developing countries

Gilles Pison

Volume: 13 Article ID: 13
Pages: 301–334
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.13

17 November 2005 | research article

Unconventional approaches to mortality estimation

Kenneth Hill, Yoonjoung Choi, Ian Timæus

Volume: 13 Article ID: 12
Pages: 281–300
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.12

17 November 2005 | research article

On the relationship between period and cohort mortality

John R. Wilmoth

Volume: 13 Article ID: 11
Pages: 231–280
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.11

17 November 2005 | summary

Introduction to the Special Collection “Human Mortality over Age, Time, Sex, and Place: The 1st HMD Symposium”

Vladimir Shkolnikov, John R. Wilmoth, Dana Glei

Volume: 13 Article ID: 10
Pages: 223–230
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.10

11 November 2005 | research article

Tempo and its Tribulations

Kenneth W. Wachter

Volume: 13 Article ID: 9
Pages: 201–222
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.9

04 November 2005 | research article

Tempo effect on age-specific death rates

Shiro Horiuchi

Volume: 13 Article ID: 8
Pages: 189–200
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.8

21 October 2005 | research article

Decomposing the change in labour force indicators over time

Alexia Prskawetz, Barbara Zagaglia, Thomas Fent, Vegard Skirbekk

Volume: 13 Article ID: 7
Pages: 163–188
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.7

19 October 2005 | research article

On stochastic comparisons of population age structures and life expectancies

Maxim Finkelstein

Volume: 13 Article ID: 6
Pages: 143–162
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.6

05 October 2005 | research article

Changing mortality and average cohort life expectancy

Robert Schoen, Vladimir Canudas-Romo

Volume: 13 Article ID: 5
Pages: 117–142
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.5

30 August 2005 | research article

Fertility decline in North-Central Namibia: An assessment of fertility in the period 1960-2000 based on parish registers

Riikka Shemeikka, Veijo Notkola, Harri Siiskonen

Volume: 13 Article ID: 4
Pages: 83–116
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.4

19 August 2005 | research article

Age-specific contributions to changes in the period and cohort life expectancy

Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Robert Schoen

Volume: 13 Article ID: 3
Pages: 63–82
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.3

09 August 2005 | research article

Do socioeconomic mortality differences decrease with rising age?

Rasmus Hoffmann

Volume: 13 Article ID: 2
Pages: 35–62
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.2

15 July 2005 | research article

Placing the poor while keeping the rich in their place: Separating strategies for optimally managing residential mobility and assimilation

Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gustav Feichtinger, Dieter Grass, Michael Johnson, Gernot Tragler, Yuri Yegorov

Volume: 13 Article ID: 1
Pages: 1–34
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.1