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This paper examines developments in demographic methodology during the past decade or so. It focuses on methodological advances in the analysis of mortality of infants and young children, of adults, and on problems of mortality estimation in small populations. The other major areas reviewed here are related to the study of birth intervals, parity progression, proximate determinants of fertility, and the demography of the family. Concluding remarks relate the methodological issues to the information explosion in demography.

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Ruzicka, L.T. Progress in demographic methodology. Journal of Population Research 11, 21–31 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03029423

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