The Mortality Statistics of the Census in Relation to Occupations

Demography as a Spatial Social Science

“…6 Demography, the official journal of the Population Association of America, commenced publication in 1964, and Population Index (which dates from the mid1930s and ceased publication in 1999) was primarily a bibliographic resource. Consequently, one must look more broadly in the social science, statistical, and medical literatures to track the topical emphases in demography from its formal beginnings in the U.S. (examples from The American Journal of Sociology include Whelpton 1930;Thompson 1929;King 1897;Willcox 1896). Lorimer's (1959) comprehensive overview of the origins of demography makes clear the difficulty and artificiality of trying to establish the precise origins of the demographic discipline in the U.S.…”