Population studies and P Guide - Resources and Review

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to demography.
 
Allows display of population pyramids (graphs that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for a range of countries.
 
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.
 
Offers population statistics for countries, administrative areas, and principal cities of the world. Data is accessible via an interactive map. Also available in German.
 
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.
 
CPB's purpose is to study ecological processes in plant and animal populations, and to understand how multi
species communities are assembled.
 
Links to periodical indexes, full text documents, numeric and spatial popluation data, with US emphasis.
 
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.
 
Index of Web resources, includes global sustainability, history of life, endangered species, captive breeding, pollution, human population, habitats, protected areas, values of biodiversity, international treaties and conservation education.
 
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