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245 04 $aThe demography of African Americans, 1930-1990 /$cby Samuel H. Preston ... [et al.].
260 $aDordrecht ;$aBoston :$bKluwer Academic Publishers,$cc2003.
300 $aviii, 214 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aPlenum-Kluwer series on demographic methods and population analysis
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.
505 0 $aBackground and Plan of Study -- Social and Economic Background -- Data Conundrums -- Intercensal Cohort Comparison -- Extinct Generation Estimates -- Census, Extinct Generation, and Coale-Rives Estimates of the Size of the Older Population -- Ascertaining True Ages at Death Through a Matching Study -- Sampling Strategy -- Linkage of Death Certificates to Censuses of 1900, 1910, and 1920 -- Linkage of Death Certificates to Social Security Administration Records -- Ascertaining Age at Death from Different Sources -- Age Reporting on Death Certificates Relative to Early Censuses -- Age Reporting on Death Certificates Relative to the Death Master File of the Social Security Administration -- Non-Match Bias -- Quality of Age Information on Early Censuses: Birth Certificate Match in Maryland -- Age Distribution of Deaths -- Weighting Linked Deaths to Achieve National Coverage -- Understanding the Sources of Age Misreporting -- Reconstructing the Size of the Population by Age and Sex -- Estimation Strategies -- Comparison of Estimates with Non-Census Sources -- Sensitivity of Estimates to Alternative Procedures -- Correcting Death Distributions for Age Misreporting -- Mortality and Fertility Trends -- Trends in African-American Mortality and Sex Mortality Differentials -- Sources of Gain in African-American Survivorship -- African-American Fertility -- Life Tables -- Childhood Conditions that Predict Survival to Advanced Ages -- Relations Among Death Probabilities across the Life Cycle -- Health Conditions among Children at the Turn of the Century -- Research Design -- Statistical Procedures -- Sample Selection Bias -- Data and Variables -- Univariate Results -- Multivariate Results -- Assessing Bias in the Sample of Linked Cases.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xPopulation.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xPopulation$xStatistical methods.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y20th century$vStatistics.
650 0 $aDemography$xStatistical methods.
700 1 $aPreston, Samuel H.
830 0 $aPlenum series on demographic methods and population analysis.
938 $aOtto Harrassowitz$bHARR$nhar035033927$c90.00 EUR
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