Fundamentals of Population Analysis -- Overview of the Cohort-Component Method -- Mortality -- Fertility -- Migration -- Implementing the Cohort-Component Method -- Trend Extrapolation Methods -- Structural Models I -- Structural Models II -- Special Adjustments -- Evaluating Projections --...

"The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; Analyses; and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information; the production of summary...

Although missing data are found in all types of data sets, surveys are particularly prone to produce data sets in which values of some respondent variables are missing (see, e.g., Cochran, 1977; Ericson, 1967; Kalton, 1983; and Hutcheson and Prather, 1977). Survey data collected for end-use energy demand...

We analyze survey data from Mississippi coastal communities where Katrina made its final landfall. Logistic regressions indicate that government aid is helpful in dealing with one- to two-month economic disruption and long-term rebuilding but is less helpful with regard to short-term rebuilding...