International Union For The Scientific Study Of Population Research Articles

John Innes Clarke OBE, 7 January 1929–3 May 2018

John wrote the first English language book devoted exclusively to Population Geography (1965), setting the agenda for a generation with a focus on “how distribution, composition, migrations and growth of populations are related to spatial variations in the nature of places.” It sold over 100,000 copies and was translated into Arabic, Malay, Orissa and Spanish. His later papers developed themes of scale, population growth, sex ratio, migration and the relation between population and environment. John enjoyed travel and visited 83 countries in all. His research covered many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and West Africa and he had many PhD students from those countries. He edited numerous volumes, often involving international collaboration as he chaired the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Population Geography (from 1980 to 1988) and established a Commission on Population and the Environment within the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), chairing from 1990 to 1995. From 1990 to 1993 John chaired the International Social Science Council (ISSC) Working Group on Population Data and Global Environmental Change. His low-budget Sierra Leone in Maps (1966) established a much-copied format, and he also edited the innovative laser-printed grid-square atlas People in Britain (1976). In Durham, John established the Census Research Unit, with Dewdney, Rhind, Evans and Visvalingam, initially from 1973 to 1976, but with publications continuing to 1986. After a spell as Acting Principal of Trevelyan College, in 1981 he succeeded his teacher and mentor Bill Fisher (see The Geographical Journal, 1985, 151, pp. 148–149) as Head of the Geography Department. Unlike his predecessor, he served a three-year term and was anticipating the reward of a double sabbatical, but instead was persuaded to accept the appointment as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (PVC) and “Sub-warden” of Durham University. The 196 committee meetings he attended or chaired in 1985 led him to propose a restructuring of PVC duties, with greater division of labour, which was accepted. John was also Director of Development, but had the misfortune to occupy these positions of responsibility during the Thatcher years of cuts in university budgets. John was very active in the Geographical Association, the Institute of British Geographers and the Royal Geographical Society. He was a member of the research committee of the RGS from 1974 to 1981, chaired the RGS Jordan Badia research and development programme from 1991 to 1997, represented the RGS on the British National Committee for Geography from 1976 to 1981, and served as Vice President of the RGS to 1995; he was awarded the Victoria Medal of the RGS in 1991. John was also a member of the Social Science Research Council's Human Geography Committee from 1970 to 1977. He also made a number of radio broadcasts, and was Durham President of the Association of University Teachers between 1975 and 1978. After a second term as PVC of the University of Durham, John retired in 1990 at the early age of 60 and applied his energies to important roles in County Durham. He chaired the Durham and North Durham Health Authorities (1990–1996) and served as Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham: in 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to the community in County Durham, recognising work for the University, the Health Authority, the National Lottery charity and the County Durham Foundation. John was happily married to Dorothy (known affectionately as Dig by friends and family) from 1955 until her death in 2008, and is survived by their three daughters, and grandchildren. Dig's serious illness in her last 10 years was the saddest episode in a devoted husband's life. Throughout his long and active life John Clarke was above all a very pleasant, likeable and helpful person. He had great influence on population geography and the study of the Middle East and North Africa. John made tremendous contributions to the University and County of Durham. His advice was always welcome, and he remained cheerful and good company to the end, when it was hard for him to bear a steady loss of memory. John was very sociable, an academic leader, an approachable colleague and an influential teacher, and he is missed for all of those qualities.

French Immigration—Demography Meets Politics: A Review Essay

French Immigration—Demography Meets Politics: A Review Essay

The science of choice: an introduction

Introduction In October 2015, around 30 scholars convened at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock to discuss: (a) how individuals and families make decisions about marriage, child-birth, migration, retirement, and other transitions in the life course; and (b) how these decision processes can be operationalized in demographic models. The workshop was organized by the Scientific Panel on Microsimulation and Agent-Based Modelling con- vened by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and by MPIDR. The report of this ‘Science of choice’ workshop and the papers presented are available from the workshop’s website (see IUSSP 2015). The five papers included in this Supplement are revised versions of papers presented at the workshop in Rostock.

Two statements on population and sustainable development produced by global scientific panels in 2002 and 2012

When discussing the involvement of demographers in the analysis of population and climate change interactions, it is useful to remind ourselves that within the last 15 years there were two major attempts to summarize the state of the art on the role of population in sustainable development by high-powered international panels, and to communicate them to decision-makers at the highest levels. Such efforts were made in the context of decadal conferences of heads of states and governments convened by the United Nations System under the broad topic of ‘Sustainable Development’. The first of these conferences, the ‘Earth Summit’, was held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro under the chairmanship of Maurice Strong. Among the outcomes of this conference was the ‘Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)’, which is the only binding global agreement on climate change that has been reached so far. Even the recent Paris climate change agreement of December 2015, in which countries agreed to limit global warming to relatively safe levels of less than two degrees Celsius (◦C), is only partially legally binding. In 2002, the leaders of the world gathered again in Johannesburg to assess the progress made since Rio, and to adjust their policy priorities. In preparation for this summit meeting, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), together with the UNU (United Nations University) and the IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population), and with financial support from the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), assembled a group of leading scholars working on population-related issues to produce a statement, which is given below. This Global Science Panel was under the joint patronage of Maurice Strong and Nafis Sadik, and was coordinated by Wolfgang Lutz and Mahendra Shah. A shortened version of this statement was also published in Nature (Lutz and Shah 2002). The members of the panel are listed as authors below.

In memoriam: Graeme John Hugo AO, FASSA, PhD (ANU) 1946-2015

On 20 January 2015 Graeme Hugo, University Professorial Fellow and Professor of Geography at the University of Adelaide, died shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. Professor Hugo was in full stride when his life was prematurely terminated. He was a prodigious writer (over 500 peer reviewed publications), presenter at conferences and meetings (more than 1,000 presentations), and supervisor of postgraduate students (110 completed master’s and PhD supervisions, with 19 PhD students and 2 master’s students under supervision at the time of his death). In addition, his CV lists more than 120 reports for government agencies in Australia, international agencies, and overseas governments. 1 In July 2014 Graeme was presented with the Institute of Australian Geographers’ (IAG) Australia-International Medal “in recognition of his outstanding contribution, as an Australian geographer, to the advancement of geography world-wide”. Two years earlier he had been awarded the civil honour of Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of his “distinguished service to population research, particularly the study of international migration, population geography and mobility, and through leadership roles with national and international organisations.” In 2009, in a survey of members of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), he was voted by his peers as the 34th ranked demographer of all time for the quality of his work.

Family planning impact evaluation: the evolution of techniques

This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper prepared for the seminar on methods for impact evaluation of family planning programs held in Jaco, Costa Rica, May 14-16, 1997. The seminar was sponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina, and the Central American Population Program of the University of Costa Rica. The goal of the seminar was to look at current methodological problems facing careful evaluation of the impact of programs, to examine some of the new methods that have been developed to address persistent issues, and to assess the methodological challenges posed by the expanded goals of many programs following the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development. This paper was designed to serve as the background to discussions of current methodologies and issues by tracing the development and nature of methods for assessing impact that started soon after the first programs were initiated in the 1950s. The techniques discussed include standardization and trend analysis, the analyses of acceptor data, experimental designs, multivariate areal analysis, population-based surveys, and multilevel strategies. The intent of the program sponsors and coordinators was to publish the collected papers but various contingencies intervened to make this infeasible. A description of the seminar and many of the papers are maintained on the University of Costa Rica website: http://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/noticias/plani/iusspi.htm. As a background chapter, the original version contained references to many of the other chapters planned for the volume. As many of these papers appear on the website, relevant references are given to the authors and this website throughout the paper.

Introduction: understanding the links between population dynamics and climate change

The growth in scientific understanding of the climate system and its sensitivity to greenhouse gas emissions is a remarkable accomplishment by physical scientists during the last quarter century (IPCC 2007 2013). Now social scientists including demographers need to be more robustly involved if we are to achieve a complementary systematic understanding of the human causes and consequences of anthropogenic climate change and reach agreement on how to respond. Recognizing this challenge the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)—the preeminent international professional association of population scientists—established a new scientific panel on climate change in 2011.1 Overall the panel’s aims are as follows: (1) strengthen and expand the network of population researchers working in this field; (2) encourage the development of a richer and deeper understanding of the ways population processes interact with climate change; and (3) ensure this improved understanding is made available to a wide range of researchers and policymakers. Our general guiding questions include the following: What do we already know about the empirical linkages between population dynamics and climate change? How can we best investigate these links and what are the key research questions? What are the most promising topics to explore and the most fruitful theoretical and methodological approaches? (excerpt)

RURAL-URBAN LINKAGES AND THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL MIGRATION IN ASIAN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada (IDRC Grant number: 105447-001), The Asian Development Bank, and Fujian Normal University for their financial support to the seminar in which the early versions of the four papers of the special section were presented. The authors would also like to thank the Australian Research Council (ARC) for its support to the project ‘Comparing internal migration in countries around the world: measures, theories and policy dimensions’ (ID DP110101363), whose work benefited the preparation of both the special section and the introduction. Notes 1. The four guest editors of this special section are members of IUSSP Scientific Panel on the Impact of Internal Migration and Urbanization in Developing Countries, with Yu Zhu as the Chair. Yu Zhu is Professor of Fujian Normal University in China; Martin Bell is Professor of University of Queensland in Australia; Sabine Henry is Professor of University of Namur in Belgium; and Michael White is Professor of Brown University in USA. 2. Chamratrithirong's review on research on internal migration in Thailand provides an excellent example on such a shift (Chamratrithirong, 2007 Chamratrithirong , A. 2007 . Research on internal migration in Thailand: The state of knowledge . Journal of Population and Social Studies , 16 , 1 – 20 . Retrieved from http://www.migrationcenter.mahidol.ac.th/download/04_Review%20Article_Apichat.pdf [Google Scholar]). 3. Further information on the IUSSP Scientific Panel is available on the IUSSP website at http://www.iussp.org/en/panel/panel-impact-internal-migration-and-urbanization-developing-countries.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Sub‐Saharan Africa

New research on adolescents sexual and reproductive health and more broadly on their transitions to adulthood is essential to guide the development of more effective policies and programs in sub-Saharan Africa. In recognition of the importance of these issues the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) established a scientific panel on Life Course in Developing Countries to focus on gaps in knowledge that were highlighted in the recent report presented by the United States National Academy of Sciences (NRC/ IOM 2005) on adolescent transitions in the developing world. This special issue of Studies in Family Planning presents a selection of the studies on sub-Saharan Africa that were presented at the first meeting organized by this panel at the International Seminar on and Reproductive to Adulthood in Developing Countries1 together with additional studies on related themes. The first section on Sexual and Reproductive Transitions analyzes demographic and ethnographic data to identify trends in adolescent sexual marital and reproductive transitions and proposes guidelines for safe age-appropriate timing of such transitions. The second section on HIV Risk examines such risk in the contexts of hazardous partnering practices (multiple concurrent and age-asymmetrical relationships) and of adolescents inability to refuse sex with those in positions of power over them. The third section on Schooling and Adolescent Behavior considers the complex interplay between premarital sex pregnancy and schooling. The compilation includes works by such leaders in the field as Ruth Dixon-Mueller John Cleland Ann Biddlecom and Barbara Mensch and will serve as a guide for future research programs and policies.

Becoming a Young Adult: An International Perspective on the Transitions to Adulthood

This special issue is devoted to the articles presented at a workshop held in Montreal in June 2006 as part of the activities of the Scientific Panel on the Transition to Adulthood of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). The articles address three of the key goals of the Panel: (1) to develop new tools to study the transition to adulthood as a whole rather than as a series of discrete events; (2) to add to the comparative literature on the transition to adulthood, especially in terms of its micro–macro linkages; and (3) to provide researchers with a more inclusive conceptual framework to study the transition to adulthood.

Assessing probable causes of death without death registration or certificates: a new science?

The study of mortality, with its measurement of numbers and death rates, has long been a priority for demographers. The study of causes of death and their role in public health is an area where collaboration between physicians and demographers has been particularly fruitful, as demonstrated in the research presented by Garenne & Fontaine in 1986. It was first published in French, (1) with a subsequent version in English which is extracted here. (2) The classification of causes of death is always a difficult exercise: difficult in developed countries where the registration of all deaths is relatively complete, necessitating 10 revisions of the International classification of diseases and causes of death; (3) more difficult in developing countries where often less than half of all deaths are registered. The deceased patients often received no medical attention, either because they lived too far from the health system or because the establishment of the cause was of no interest to anyone. In countries with incomplete statistics, Yves Biraud recommended, in 1956, the use of information supplied by the relatives of a deceased person, in an attempt to establish a "community diagnosis" of the cause of death. (4) The first simplified lists of causes of death for use in developing countries were published by WHO in 1978, (5) only six years before the study under review. A few teams of doctors and demographers had started to research the establishment of causes of death in the well-known "population laboratories" that provided a complete registration of vital events through longitudinal demographic surveillance: in Khanna, northern India, between 1955 and 1960; in Companigonj, Bangladesh, between 1975 and 1978; and in Santa Maria Cauque, Guatemala, and Narangwal, Punjab, between 1978 and 1982. The term "verbal autopsy" was first proposed by Arnold Kleiman and coworkers in a publication emanating from Narangwal in 1983. (6) Although the term is not used by Garenne & Fontaine in their article, it can be considered that they are among the "fathers" of this new technique, defined as "a procedure to exploit the information provided by the relatives of a deceased person to reconstruct the events and symptoms that preceded the death so as to deduct a medically acceptable cause, or causes, of the death". (7) During the following decade, several other research centres started to lay down experiments and theories about the assessment of causes of death by verbal autopsy, such as Matlab in Bangladesh, Niakhar in Senegal, Machakos in Kenya, and MRC Laboratories in the Gambia. The first international workshop to share experiences was organized by the Department of International Health of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in March 1989, (8) at which Garenne presented his standardized method developed in Morocco and Senegal. Five years later, a first workshop focusing on maternal deaths was convened by the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (9) The work by Garenne & Fontaine came at the right time to demonstrate a favourable conjunction between demography and public health. It emanated from a study on the relationship between nutritional status and mortality of children under five years of age in Niakhar, a rural region of Senegal under demographic surveillance. This study of causes of deaths was first presented at a seminar on new approaches to the measurement and analysis of mortality organized in Sienna, Italy, in 1986 by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and published in French as part of the proceedings. (1) It has been cited, in either French or English, in almost every subsequent publication on verbal autopsy. This paper represented an important step forward, because it came at a pioneering time when fellow researchers in the same area needed a bit of guidance and theory, particularly regarding the format of the questionnaire to be applied. …

Assessing probable causes of death without death registration or certificates: a new science?

The study of mortality, with its measurement of numbers and death rates, has long been priority for demographers. The study of causes of death and their role in public health is an area where collaboration between physicians and demographers has been particularly fruitful, as demonstrated in the research presented by Garenne & Fontaine in 1986. It was first published in French, (1) with subsequent version in English which is extracted here. (2) The classification of causes of death is always difficult exercise: difficult in developed countries where the registration of all deaths is relatively complete, necessitating 10 revisions of the International classification of diseases and causes of death; (3) more difficult in developing countries where often less than half of all deaths are registered. The deceased patients often received no medical attention, either because they lived too far from the health system or because the establishment of the cause was of no interest to anyone. In countries with incomplete statistics, Yves Biraud recommended, in 1956, the use of information supplied by the relatives of deceased person, in an attempt to establish community diagnosis of the cause of (4) The first simplified lists of causes of death for use in developing countries were published by WHO in 1978, (5) only six years before the study under review. A few teams of doctors and demographers had started to research the establishment of causes of death in the well-known population laboratories that provided complete registration of vital events through longitudinal demographic surveillance: in Khanna, northern India, between 1955 and 1960; in Companigonj, Bangladesh, between 1975 and 1978; and in Santa Maria Cauque, Guatemala, and Narangwal, Punjab, between 1978 and 1982. The term autopsy was first proposed by Arnold Kleiman and coworkers in publication emanating from Narangwal in 1983. (6) Although the term is not used by Garenne & Fontaine in their article, it can be considered that they are among the fathers of this new technique, defined as a procedure to exploit the information provided by the relatives of deceased person to reconstruct the events and symptoms that preceded the death so as to deduct medically acceptable cause, or causes, of the death. (7) During the following decade, several other research centres started to lay down experiments and theories about the assessment of causes of death by verbal autopsy, such as Matlab in Bangladesh, Niakhar in Senegal, Machakos in Kenya, and MRC Laboratories in the Gambia. The first international workshop to share experiences was organized by the Department of International Health of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in March 1989, (8) at which Garenne presented his standardized method developed in Morocco and Senegal. Five years later, first workshop focusing on maternal deaths was convened by the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (9) The work by Garenne & Fontaine came at the right time to demonstrate favourable conjunction between demography and public health. It emanated from study on the relationship between nutritional status and mortality of children under five years of age in Niakhar, rural region of Senegal under demographic surveillance. This study of causes of deaths was first presented at seminar on new approaches to the measurement and analysis of mortality organized in Sienna, Italy, in 1986 by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and published in French as part of the proceedings. (1) It has been cited, in either French or English, in almost every subsequent publication on verbal autopsy. This paper represented an important step forward, because it came at pioneering time when fellow researchers in the same area needed bit of guidance and theory, particularly regarding the format of the questionnaire to be applied. …

The Environmental, Social, and Health Dimensions of Urban Expansion

This article was originally written as the background paper for a cyberseminar held from 29 November–15 December 2004 under the auspices of Population-Environment Research Network or PERN a joint activity of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change. Originally posted online at the PERN website it has been revised and updated to take into account contributions of participants in the cyberseminar. The article focuses upon the environmental social and health dimensions of urban expansion. Our goal is to compare and contrast the processes of urban expansion and transformation in developing and developed countries. We expect a research agenda to emerge that will foster understanding of the processes contexts and outcomes of urbanization as well as the understanding that will ultimately contribute to policy solutions. Our article benefits from and hopefully will contribute to parallel projects being developed by IHDP Urbanization Science Project the IUSSP Urbanizations and Health Working Group the U.S. National Academies’ Panel on Urban Population Dynamics the U.S. National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability’s Task Force on Rapid Urbanization The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment the World Bank’s Cities Alliance and Cities in Transition and other initiatives that recognize the importance of examining the urban transformation we are experiencing in a comprehensive integrated manner. (excerpt)

A summary of Special Collection 2

Special Collection 2: Determinants of Diverging Trends in Mortality is a set of papers stemming from the first seminar of the Committee on Emerging Health Threats (CEHT) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), "Determ

Introduction to the Special Collection of papers on "Determinants of diverging trends in mortality"

This article introduces the Special Collection of papers presented at the first seminar of the Committee on Emerging Health Threats (CEHT) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Determinants of Diverging Trends of Mortality. The seminar was held in Rostock (Germany) on 19-21 of June 2002. The seminar encouraged studies on adverse mortality trends and widening mortality differentials between and within countries. The introduction to the collection argues that mortality divergence is a new and significant phenomenon in global population health. It then presents the scientific agenda of the seminar and provides a brief overview of the thirteen studies that constitute the Special Collection.

The Global Science Panel on Population in Sustainable Development

The forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa (26 August – 4 September 2002) has been called by the United Nations to consider strategies toward sustainable development in all its dimensions. Hence, its mandate is broader than that of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Conference). Population issues have previously been discussed in a separate series of World Population Conferences (Bucharest 1974, Mexico City 1984, Cairo 1994). With no new World Population Conference scheduled for 2004 and Johannesburg having a mandate that explicitly includes social and economic aspects, population as a key component of sustainable development should figure prominently in the deliberations. Yet, after the third of four preparatory meetings for WSSD (which ended in New York on 5 April), population considerations are absent from the planned agenda.A plausible explanation for this absence is bureaucratic: in most countries inputs to Johannesburg are being prepared mainly by environment ministries that have little experience in dealing with population questions. There may also be political reasons for not wanting to discuss population issues in Johannesburg. But, arguably, sustainable development strategies that do not take into account the diversity and the dynamics of human populations will fail. This is one of the conclusions of the Global Science Panel on Population and Environment. The Panel is an independent body of international experts from the fields of population and environment that was organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and the United Nations University (UNU). (Members of the Panel acted in their individual capacity, rather than representing their institutions.) After a ten‐month preparatory process, in April 2002 the Panel finalized a statement that summarizes its understanding of the role of population in sustainable development and outlines key policy priorities. The full text of this statement, titled Population in sustainable development, is reproduced below.

Non-governmental organizations and world population issues

This article profiles nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and describes their legal foundation definition and importance in addressing world population issues. In the 71st article of the Charter of the UN it is stated that the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) may negotiate with international and national organizations concerning issues in the Councils field of activity. The NGOs can be granted consultative status with ECOSOC if they can fulfill certain conditions. A substantial precondition is that they have special expertise and they represent a special group in several countries not based on an intergovernmental agreement. In the context of definition an ECOSOC report states that NGOs are nonprofit independent associations. Members are citizens or civic organizations from one or several countries and activities are determined by its membership to satisfy the needs of the members or those of one or more fields of activity. There are two nongovernmental organizations being recognized internationally. These are the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The significance of NGOs particularly IUSSP and IPPF on population issues it is noted that NGOs have had an important role in every continent of the world and special emphasis is placed on the leading role of IPPF and womens NGOs in the activities of the civil society.

Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

A book containing a selection of papers presented at an international conference on mortality and society in sub-Saharan Africa held at Yaounde Cameroon in October 1987 is to be published early in 1989 by Presses Universitaires de France. An English version entitled Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa will be published by Oxford University Press. The conference was sponsored by IUSSP (the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population) and IFORD (the Institute for Demographic Research and Training.) The book contains 18 chapters which discuss: 1) present mortality rates trends in those rates and the main causes of changes and regional variations in those rates; 2) sources and methods of analysis of data on mortality rates in Africa; 3) the diseases most responsible for infant and child mortality in particular tetanus diarrheal diseases and malaria; seasonal and regional differences in the incidence of these diseases; and ways to combat these diseases; 4) the influence of biological social and behavioral factors on mortality rates; and 5) the nature and significance to general mortality rates of crises such as famine and the AIDS epidemic. Because the subject of mortality and society in Africa is so large and complex and because reliable demographic data on Africa are so rarely available this book cannot claim to be a manual on the subject. But it is hope that it will be a catalyst for discussion and for the development of research and will draw attention to the many factors that influence a human beings chances of survival. Experience shows that health programs can be improved considerably when account is taken of the rich variety of patterns of behavior and social organization that exists in Africa.

Population conference

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) held its Twenty-first International Population Conference at New Delhi from 20 to 27 September 1989. The Conference, which was organized at the invitation of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), was opened by India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi.

Measuring International Migration: Theory and Practice

This volume is the result of the collaboration between the International Migration Review 2 and two of the scientific committees of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). The Committee on International Migration and the Committee on Data Collection and Processing in LDC's jointly organized a Workshop entitled “International Migration Statistics: Their Problems and Use” that took place in Ottawa, Canada from 11 to 13 November 1987. Preliminary versions of about half of the articles contained in this volume were presented at that Workshop. A full report of the discussions that took place at the Workshop is also included.