Links

Data Sources

■ The Human Mortality Database and The Human Life-Table Database.

■ Latin American Human Mortality Database

■ Demographic and Health Surveys.

■ World Health Organization data and statistics.

Programming tips for demographers

■ IDRE at UCLA - tutorials on many statistical packages.

Research Centers

■ Population Studies Center at Penn.

■ Brazilian Census Bureau.

■ Cedeplar - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Basic demographic methods

■ United Nations Demographic Manuals.

■ "Uses of census or survey data for the estimation of vital rates" - William Brass (1964).

Basic sociology

■ The Philadelphia Negro: a social study - W. E. B. Du Bois (1899). One of the earliest examples of sociology as a statistically based social science.

■ Introduction to the Science of Sociology - Robert Ezra Park and Ernest W. Burgess (1921).

■ Caste, class, & race: a study in social dynamics - Oliver C. Cox (1959).

■ The Wretched Of The Earth - Frantz Omar Fanon (1961).

Newspaper Articles

■ "Recovering From Postdoc Mistakes" - Article published in the March 18, 2011, issue of the Science Career Magazine.

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