Note: Every chapter includes:
- Chapter introductions
- Critical thinking questions
- Recommended readings
- Recommended websites
Tables
Figures
Boxes
Preface
1. The Study of Population Change
2. The Population of Canada before the Twentieth
Century
Part One: The Population Processes: Mortality, Fertility, and Immigration
3. Mortality, Health, and Health Care
4. Fertility and the Reproduction of Society
5. Immigration and the Population of Canada
Part Two: Growth, Distribution, and Aging
6.
Population Distribution, Internal Migration, and the Regions
7. Changing Growth Patterns and Their Implications
8. Population Aging
Part Three: Consequences of Population Change
9. Families and Household Units
10. Sociocultural and Socioeconomic Composition
11. The
Demography of the Aboriginal Population of Canada
12. Population and the Environment NEW
13. Conclusions
Appendix A: The Life Table
Appendix B: Crude Rates, the Total Fertility Rate, and Standardization
Appendix C: 2014 World Population Data Sheet
Appendix D: Population
Estimates and Demographic Accounts
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
E-Book (ISBN 9780199026128)
Don Kerr is professor of sociology at King's University College at Western University.
Roderic Beaujot is professor emeritus of sociology at Western University and one of Canada's most respected demographers. He is currently an editorial advisor to Canadian Public Policy and chair
of the Statistics Canada Advisory Committee on Demographic Statistics and Studies.