half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …

“Population” is often a significant unit of analysis, and a point of passage for facts and models moving between the … natural and social sciences, and between animals and humans. But the very existence of a population is a “fact” fraught with … challenges: What distinguishes a population from an economy, an ecosystem, a society? Are populations simply memory …

Eugenics has played an important role in the relations between social and biological scientists of population through … boundary work. In the immediate post-war era, demographers often denigrated the contributions of biologists to population … population, programmes they believed to threaten population science and policy with the stigma of typological thinking. The …

independence and the cessation of the civilwar. The picture that emerges is of a population facing severe economic,physical and … psycho-social stress.Over 95 percent of the population are living below the minimumconsumption basket, four out of five are …

disabled people informedby cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into “thedisabled” and “the non … breakdown isgiven of the working-age population who are disabled at any one timeby the ‘disability trajectories’ they follow …