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Political Science City Planning & Urban Development

Demographic Projection Techniques for Regions and Smaller Areas

A Primer

by (author) H. Craig Davis

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
City Planning & Urban Development, Regional Planning
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774853767
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $27.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774805018
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $32.95

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The ability to project population trends is of vital importance for anyone involved in planning -- in the public as well as the private sector. This book provides the tools for making such projections and discusses four principal approaches: mathematical extrapolation, comparative methods, cohort survival and migration models. Primarily written for courses in planning, this book is also useful for anyone having to make decisions affected by population trends, whether they involve planning for future growth or alerting local decisionmakers to external uncertainties that could have a serious impact on the future of the community.

About the author

Contributor Notes

H. Craig Davis is a professor in the Department of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia and the author of Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation (UBC Press, 1990).