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Author: 
Moultrie TA

UN manuals

Many of these have been superseded by the material presented here. Nevertheless, they still offer useful insights and are a valuable historical resource.

  • Methods for estimating adult mortality (2002) [1]
  • Manual X - Indirect techniques for demographic estimation (1983) [2]
  • Manual IV - Methods of estimating basic demographic measures from incomplete data (1967) [3]
  • Manual II - Methods of appraisal of quality of basic data for population estimates (1955) [4]

Other reference material (including archived journals)

Below are links to various journals cited in the Manual whose contents are not routinely or readily available or discoverable

  • Asian and Pacific Census Newsletter (EastWest Centre)
    • Vol 1 (1974-5)  : No. 1 [5] No. 2 [6] No. 3 [6] No. 4 [7]
    • Vol 2 (1975-6)  : No. 1 [8] No. 2 [9] No. 3 [10] No. 4 [11] 
    • Vol 3 (1976-7)  : No. 1 [12] No. 2 [13] No. 3 [14] No. 4 [15]
    • Vol 4 (1977-8)  : No. 1 [16] No. 2 [17] No. 3 [18] No. 4 [18]
  • Asian and Pacific Census Forum (EastWest Centre)
    • Vol 5 (1978-9)  : No. 1 [19] No. 2 [20] No. 3 [21] No. 4 [22] 
    • Vol 6 (1979-80): No. 1 [23] No. 2 [24] No. 3 [25] No. 4 [26]
    • Vol 7 (1980-1)  : No. 1 [27] No. 2 [28] No. 3 [29] No. 4 [30]
    • Vol 8 (1981-2)  : No. 1 [31] No. 2 [32] No. 3 [33] No. 4 [34]
    • Vol 9 (1982-3)  : No. 1 [35] No. 2 [36] No. 3 [37] No. 4 [38]  
    • Vol 10 (1983-4): No. 1 [39] No. 2 [40] No. 3 [41] No. 4 [42]
    • Vol 11 (1984-5): No. 1 [43] No. 2 [44] No. 3 [45] No. 4 [46]
    • Vol 12 (1985-6): No. 1 [47] No. 2 [48]
  • Asian and Pacific Population Forum (EastWest Centre)
    • Vol 1 (1986-7)  : No. 1 [49] No. 2 [50] No. 3 [51] No. 4 [52] No. 5 [53]
    • Vol 2 (1988)     : Nos. 1 +  2 [54] Nos. 3  + 4 [55]
    • Vol 3 (1989)     : Nos. 1 +  2 [56] No. 3 [57] No. 4 [58]
    • Vol 4 (1990)     : No. 1 [59] No. 2 [60] No. 3 [61] No. 4 [62]
    • Vol 5 (1991)     : No. 1 [63] Nos. 2 +  3 [64] No. 4 [65]
    • Vol 6 (1992-3)  : No. 1 [66] No. 2 [67] No. 3 [68] No. 4 [69]
  • Health Transition Review [70]
  • Southern African Journal of Demography [71]

Life tables

  • WHO life tables [72]
  • UN model life tables for developing countries (1982) [73] superseded by the tables available here [74], on the UN Population Division website

Data repositories

  • IPUMS [75] (sample unit record files and metadata)
  • ACAP [76] - African census data (limited access to data, but good metadata)

Census dates

  • List maintained by the UN [77]
  • List maintained by IPUMS [78]

Census software

  • CS-Pro [79]
  • Redatam [80]
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Links:
[1] http://www.un.org/esa/population/techcoop/DemEst/methods_adultmort/methods_adultmort.html
[2] http://www.un.org/esa/population/techcoop/DemEst/manual10/manual10.html
[3] http://www.un.org/esa/population/techcoop/DemEst/manual4/manual4.html
[4] http://www.un.org/esa/population/techcoop/DemEst/manual2/manual2.html
[5] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn01-01.pdf
[6] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn01-02.pdf
[7] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn01-04.pdf
[8] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn02-01.pdf
[9] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn02-02.pdf
[10] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn02-03.pdf
[11] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn02-04.pdf
[12] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn03-01.pdf
[13] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn03-02.pdf
[14] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn03-03.pdf
[15] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn03-04.pdf
[16] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn04-01.pdf
[17] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn04-02.pdf
[18] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcn04-03.pdf
[19] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf05-01.pdf
[20] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf05-02.pdf
[21] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf05-03.pdf
[22] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf05-04.pdf
[23] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf06-01.pdf
[24] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf06-02.pdf
[25] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf06-03.pdf
[26] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf06-04.pdf
[27] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf07-01.pdf
[28] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf07-02.pdf
[29] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf07-03.pdf
[30] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf07-04.pdf
[31] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf08-01.pdf
[32] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf08-02.pdf
[33] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf08-03.pdf
[34] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf08-04.pdf
[35] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf09-01.pdf
[36] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf09-02.pdf
[37] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf09-03.pdf
[38] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf09-04.pdf
[39] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf10-01.pdf
[40] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf10-02.pdf
[41] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf10-03.pdf
[42] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf10-04.pdf
[43] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf11-01.pdf
[44] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf11-02.pdf
[45] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf11-03.pdf
[46] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf11-04.pdf
[47] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf12-01.pdf
[48] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/apcf12-02.pdf
[49] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf01-01.pdf
[50] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf01-02.pdf
[51] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf01-03.pdf
[52] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf01-04.pdf
[53] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf01-05.pdf
[54] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf02-0102.pdf
[55] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf02-0304.pdf
[56] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf03-0102.pdf
[57] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf03-03.pdf
[58] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf03-04.pdf
[59] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf04-01.pdf
[60] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf04-02.pdf
[61] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf04-03.pdf
[62] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf04-04.pdf
[63] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf05-01.pdf
[64] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf05-0203.pdf
[65] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf05-04.pdf
[66] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf06-01.pdf
[67] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf06-02.pdf
[68] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf06-03.pdf
[69] http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/appf06-04.pdf
[70] http://htc.anu.edu.au/html/htrV1new.html
[71] http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/Organisations/Demography/SA_Journal_of_Demography/archives.asp
[72] http://www.who.int/whosis/database/life_tables/life_tables.cfm
[73] http://www.un.org/esa/population/techcoop/DemMod/model_lifetabs/model_lifetabs.html
[74] http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Model-Life-Tables/download-page.html
[75] https://international.ipums.org/
[76] http://www.acap.upenn.edu/
[77] http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/censusdates.htm
[78] https://international.ipums.org/international/samples.shtml
[79] http://www.census.gov/population/international/software/cspro/
[80] http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/redatam/noticias/paginas/2/8102/P8102.xml&xsl=/redatam/tpl/p18f.xsl&base=/redatam/tpl-i/top-bottom.xsl