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Population studies

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2001 Census of Population: Government White Paper in PDF format regarding the 2001 Census procedure. Covers the proposals put forward by the government, and the reasoning behind the topics covered and the questions asked. Aspects of confidentiality, security, and dissemination of results are also addressed.
Author: National Statistics
Subjects: population studies, uk population
DeweyClass: 352.75
Resource type: government
American Journal of Human Genetics: Topics explored by AJHG include behavioural genetics, biochemical genetics, clinical genetics, cytogenetics, dysmorphology, genetic counselling, immunogenetics, and population genetics and epidemiology. Tables of contents available.
Author: University of Chicago Press
Subjects: epidemiology, human genetics, immunology, population studies
DeweyClass: 599.93
Resource type: journal
Annual Review of Population Law: This searchable database provides access to summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights and related topics.
Author: Harvard Law School and United Nations Population Fund
Subjects: birth, international law, population studies
DeweyClass: 304.6
Resource type: document
Centre for Population Biology: CPB's purpose is to study ecological processes in plant and animal populations, and to understand how multi-species communities are assembled.
Author: Imperial College Centre for Population Biology
Subjects: ecology, population studies
DeweyClass: 577
Resource type: institution
City Population: Offers population statistics for countries, administrative areas, and principal cities of the world. Data is accessible via an interactive map. Also available in German.
Author: Brinkhoff, Thomas
Subjects: population studies
DeweyClass: 304
Resource type: interactive map, reference data
Global Population Distribution Database: Project providing a database depicting the worldwide population distribution. Makes use of the most recent data available. Includes background to the project, a description of the database, the methodology used to create and define the dataset, an analysis of the projects result, and a facility to download the database.
Author: US Government Geological Survey
Subjects: geographical data, population studies, world population
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: reference data
Global Population Project: Provides demographic information for countries, their administrative areas, cities, and towns, arranged alphabetically by country name. General statistics relating to world population and images of each country's national flag are also available.
Author: Helders, Stefan
Subjects: population studies, world population
DeweyClass: 304
Resource type: reference data
IDB Population Pyramids: Allows display of population pyramids (graphs that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for a range of countries.
Author: US Census Bureau
Subjects: population studies, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data
Intersections: Refereed journal for historical and cultural gender studies in Asia. Offers articles such as Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: Nushu Narratives, and Ethnography and Video: Researching Women in China's Floating Population.
Author: Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
Subjects: asian studies, gender studies, population studies
DeweyClass: 305.8
Resource type: journal
Intute: social sciences - population and area statistics: Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to demography.
Author: Intute
Subjects: population studies, world population
DeweyClass: 304
Resource type: index
JSTOR: UK mirror of JSTOR service, which aims to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature, to improve access to these journals, to help fill gaps in existing library collections of journal issues, to address preservation issues, reduce long-term costs to libraries, and to assist scholarly associations and publishers in making the transition to electronic modes of publication. Online journals are available in several subject areas, including Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, and sociology. Subscription required for journal access. A demonstration database and background information on JSTOR are freely available.
Author: JSTOR and MIMAS, Manchester University
Subjects: asian studies, electronic journal collections, philosophy research, population studies
DeweyClass: 080
Resource type: journal collection
Mann Library Gateway: Links to periodical indexes, full text documents, numeric and spatial popluation data, with US emphasis.
Author: Cornell University
Subjects: population studies, united states population
DeweyClass: 304
Resource type: index
National Statistics Online: Population Trends: Quarterly publication from the National Statistics Office covering population and demographic information. It contains commentary on the latest findings, articles on topical subjects such as one parent families, cohabitation, fertility differences, international demography, population estimates and projections for different groups, and statistical tables and graphs showing trends on conceptions, births, marriages, divorces, internal and international migration, and population estimates. All material can be downloaded in pdf format.
Author: Office for National Statistics
Subjects: population studies, social science research, uk population, united kingdom
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference documents
Population Index Online: Quarterly bibliography published since 1935, and a major reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.
Author: Princeton University
Subjects: geographical data, population studies, world population
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: bibliography, journal