Although the first censuses were the only practical means of surveying a nation’s population, the development of sample survey methodologies means censuses are increasingly justified by the specifically geographical detail they uniquely provide. The same is arguably true of historical census studies: a two per cent sample taken from many millions is quite sufficient to study national class or h...

For member states without a vital registration system as is Malawi, WHO uses other sources of adult mortality such as survey and census data to estimate the level of adult mortality. For under-five mortality, again, all available survey and census data are assessed, adjusted and averaged to estimate the probable trend in child mortality over the past few decades. For Malawi WHO used data from C...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The aim was to examine the influence of domestic crowding and household amenities in early life on later mortality from all causes and specifically from stomach cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and rheumatic heart disease. DESIGN This was a retrospective cohort study of people whose houses had been surveyed in 1936 and whose household size was known from the 193...

BACKGROUND Understanding the socioeconomic and regional divides in disability prevalence in India has considerable relevance for designing public health policies and programs. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study is to quantify the prevalence of disability by gender, region (rural and urban; states and districts), and caste. We also examine the association between disability prevalence and...

Shanghai has experienced a rapid process of urbanization and urban expansion, which increases travel costs limits job accessibility for the economically disadvantaged population. This paper investigates jobs-housing imbalance problem in at subdistrict-level (census-level) reaches following conclusions. First, shows ring pattern is evident mainly suburban areas periphery metropolitan area becaus...

A breakthrough in the tradeoff between privacy and data quality has been achieved for restricted access to population census microdata samples. The IPUMS-International website, as of June 2006, offers integrated microdata for 47 censuses, totaling more than 140 million person records, with 13 countries represented. Over the next four years, the global collaboratory led by the Minnesota Populati...

A breakthrough in the tradeoff between privacy and data quality has been achieved for restricted access to population census microdata samples. The IPUMS-International website, as of June 2006, offers integrated microdata for 47 censuses, totaling more than 140 million person records, with 13 countries represented. Over the next four years, the global collaboratory led by the Minnesota Populati...

The People’s Republic of China conducted its fifth population census in November 2000. This paper draws from that census and recent data to examine national and regional demographic changes in China over the past two decades. Nationally, the impact of fertility decline on rates of population growth, age composition, and household size is investigated. Regional population trends include the risi...