Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century

pApplied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21supst/sup century.� One significant area of change is the extension of applied demography beyond the United States; this book includes material dealing with applied demography in Australia, Canada, Estonia, and Mexico./ppiOpportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21supst/sup Century/i presents a score of selected papers from the second post-2000 national conference on Applied Demography, held in San Antonio, Texas, in January, 2010, under the sponsorship of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio./ppCoverage includes the assembly of data by government agencies, with a focus on issues facing the United States; demographic issues associated with globalization; business demography and health demography, as well as a section examining methodological advances in the areas of estimation and projection./pp