Inverse projection and back projection: A critical appraisal, and comparative results for England, 1539 to 1871*

Population Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 233-248

  Lee, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

DEMOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, ANCIENT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, EARLY MODERN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0022267959     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0032472031000141466     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. E. A. Wrigley and R. Schofleld, The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (Edward Arnold and Harvard University Presses, 1982).
2. R. Lee, Econometric Studies of Topics in Demographic History, a Dissertation in Economics, Harvard University, 1971, and published by Arno Press, 1978.
3. ‘Estimating Series of Vital Rates and Age Structures from Baptisms and Burials: A New Technique’, Population Studies, 28 (3) (1974), pp. 495-512.
4. H. Brunborg, ‘The Inverse Projection Method Applied to Norway, 1735-1974'. Unpublished manuscript of the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics, Oslo, which also provides a detailed explanation of the method.
5. P.O. Smith and Shui-Meng Ng, ‘The Components of Population Change in Nineteenth Century South-East Asia: Village Data from the Philippines’, Population Studies 36(2) (1982), pp. 237-256.
6. R. Lee, and R. Schofield, ‘British Population in the Eighteenth Century’, in R. Floud and D. McClosky, eds., A New Economic History of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 17-35.
7. J. Oeppen, "The Testing and Development of "Back Projection"'. Paper presented at the Conference on British Demography held at Asilomar, California, in March 1982.
8. R. Lee, and D. Lam, ‘Age distribution adjustments for English censuses 1821-1931 ', Population Studies 37(3) (1983), pp. 445-464.
9. A. Lopez, Problems in Stable Population Theory (Princeton, N.J., Office of Population Research, 1961).
10. D. V. Glass, ‘Gregory King’s Estimate of the Population of England and Wales, 1695', in D. V. Glass and D.E.C. Eversley, eds., Population in History, London: Arnold, 1965, 183-220, and in particular, p. 204.