S Simpson,I Diamond,P Tonkin et al.
S Simpson et al.
"Population estimates have important implications for resource allocation within government and commerce, and are often assumed to be without error. Currently, central government provides annual population estimates for all the local and he...
R Raeside
R Raeside
"The aim of this paper is to present a review that might justify giving further consideration to the use of sigmoids in contemporary population modelling and forecasting. To do this a brief account is given of the historical development of ...
N Meade
N Meade
"The use of the logistic curve for forecasting human populations [in the United Kingdom] considered by Leach is re-examined. A modification of the use of the logistic curve is suggested, which changes the emphasis from fitting a logistic tr...
C Marsh,C Skinner,S Arber et al.
C Marsh et al.
"The census of population represents a rich source of social data. Other countries have released samples of anonymized records from their censuses to the research community for secondary analysis. So far this has not been done in Britain. T...
Two decades of family change: secondary analysis of continuous government surveys [0.03%]
二十年来家庭的变迁：连续政府调查的二次分析
A Harrop,I Plewis
A Harrop
"Secondary analysis of General Household Survey and Labour Force Survey data shows how the structure of families in Great Britain has changed over the last 20 years. Dependent children are now less likely to be living in a couple family and...
S N Simpson
S N Simpson
The extent of the undercount in the 1991 U.K. census and its consequences are described. The author notes that "the 1.2 million non-response, the difference between the published census figure and the final population estimate, is concentra...
J Wadsworth,J Field,A M Johnson et al.
J Wadsworth et al.
"The preparation and fieldwork for the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles was carried out between 1987-1991. The survey was a combination of a face-to-face interview and self-completion questionnaire and comprised 18,876 ind...
J B Copas,F J Hilton
J B Copas
"We wish to measure the evidence that a pair of records relates to the same, rather than different, individuals. The paper emphasizes statistical models which can be fitted to a file of record pairs known to be correctly matched, and then u...
E J Thompson
E J Thompson
"This paper describes the 1991 census in England and Wales: how it was planned and implemented and how its results are being assessed. The description brings out the tradeoffs that are necessary in undertaking a census, and some respects in...