The United Nations manuals for population analysis
Isupov, A.
Population Bulletin of the United Nations 1986(19-20): 90-96
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0251-7604 PMID: 12314729 Document Number: 348202
Between 1952 and 1983 the United Nations Secretariat, acting on the recommendations of the Population Commission, published 10 manuals on population analysis, evaluation and forecasting. The importance and utility of the manuals has been recognized by demographers and statisticians in a wide range of countries, especially those in the developing regions which do not yet have complete population statistics or a fully developed capability for evaluating demographic information. The manuals continue to be extensively used in both research and applied work on population. Research is being expanded and improvements are being made in population statistics and the technics of data calculation, in accordance with decisions made at the 1974 World Population Conference and the World Population Plan of Action adopted there, and with recommendations of the 1984 International Conference on Population. As a result, there is a growing need for the manuals to be updated and to present methods of conducting a more through analysis of demographic processes in association with economic and social factors, and for the subsequent derivation of, if possible, more realistic assumptions about future trends in population growth.