A unified framework of demographic time

Abstract Demographic thought and practice is largely conditioned by the Lexis diagram, a two-dimensional graphical representation of the identity between age, period, and birth cohort. This relationship does not account for remaining years of life, total length of life, or time of death, whose use i...

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Main Authors: Tim Riffe, Jonas Schöley, Francisco Villavicencio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-08-01
Series:Genus
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-017-0024-4