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Scholarly Journals in JSTOR complete text of every issue; can be searched; available through campus library; recommendedDemography 1964-1999; Family Planning Perspectives 1969-2000 ; International Family Planning Perspectives 1979-2000 ; International Family Planning Perspectives and Digest 1978; International Family Planning Digest 1975-1977; Population: An English Selection 1989-1999; Population and Development Review 1975-1999; Population Index 1937-1985; Population Literature 1935-1936 ; Population Studies 1947-1998; Studies in Family Planning 1963-1999;
also: American Journal of Sociology 1895-2000;
American Sociological Review 1936-1996;
Annual Review of Sociology 1975-1996;
Contemporary Sociology 1972-1996;
Public Opinion Quarterly 1937-1999;
Sociometry 1937-1977;
Sociology of Education 1963-1996 ;
Journal of the American Statistical Association 1922-1996;
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) 1887-1997;
Statistician 1962-1997;
Popline new reports every 2 months from Population Institute
World Population 1998 from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
World Population Profile 1998 compendium and analysis of data on population, ity, mortality, contraceptive use and related demographic topics by the U.S. Census Bureau
Datascape database of 450 variables for 163 countries; environmental emphasis
General Social Survey
Annual poll of USA; superb guide to social science citations & abstracts
of all studies that used this major data base. The complete GSS can even
be downloaded
online crosstabs of
survey data from GSS and other great databases, from UC-Berkeley
Riley, Rising Life Expectancy (2001) book review; from 30 to 67 in 200 years because of "health transition" related to (1) public health, (2) medicine, (3) income and economic development, (4) famine and diet, (5) households and individuals, and (6) literacy and education.
Charles Mann, "1491" popular 2002 magazine article about population estimates in Western Hemisphere in 1491
USSR: "The 1937 Census and the Limits of Stalinist Rule" by Catherine Merridale,
The Historical Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1. (Mar., 1996), pp. 225-240. in JSTOR
Abstract: In January 1937 the government of the USSR conducted its first population census in eleven years. This article, which is based on the archives of the census organizations and on reports from some local offices for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, describes the campaign of data collection, the questions that were asked (including, for the first and last time, a question about the respondent's religion) and the response which people give to this personal contact with their rulers. The information gathered was exceptionally thorough and complete. Crucially, however, the census was entirely suppressed, and the officials responsible for organizing it promptly arrested and executed. The reasons for doing this - which largely centred on the sensitivity of evidence of high mortality during the famine of 1932-3- are discussed, as are the potential implications of the suppression of such information. Finally, the article questions how complete any statistics about famine mortality in this period can be, and calls for a discussion of the broader questions of memory and loss which underlie the bare statistics of death.
"The Indian Population of North America in 1492," by John D. Daniels
William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Apr., 1992), pp. 298-320. in JSTOR; reviews highly contentious discussion with range from 1m to 12 m population