From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population
statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the
Bureau of the Census. It describes the errors and other flaws
typically found in such data. Petersen sets out the fundamentals of
demography and reviews the current proposal to use sampling in the
census. He then reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex
structure leads to false conclusions. Petersen explores race and
ethnicity and the dilemmas inherent in the necessarily ambiguous
definitions of these categories. He also analyzes the problems of
women who postpone having children to ages when risks of failure
become significant. The author also reviews the two most prominent
population theories--Malthus and the fertility transition--and
questions why predictions of future population size are often
completely wrong. The final chapter discusses the pros and cons of
state intervention in the control of fertility and efforts to cut
family size in less developed countries and their unclear results.
A principal topic is the relative accuracy of population statistics
and the degree to which one should accept data as published. The
main focus is on the United States and especially on the Bureau of
the Census, but general points are sometimes illustrated with
examples of how data from other countries should be evaluated.
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