Foreign citizens are a more and more significant part of the population of Italian cities and society (8% of the country’s total population), and they contribute to changes in the cultural, social, and economic structure of the country. Our aim was to assess the incidence of the immigrant population on urban house price polarization, as measured using an original indicator: the center-periphery...

South Africa has a population of 51.8 million people of which 7.5% over the age of five has a disability according to the latest census data (Statistics South Africa 2014). This statistic on the national prevalence of disability should be interpreted with caution since psychosocial and neurological disabilities are not accounted for (Statistics South Africa 2014). The most recent data on disabi...

The Population Census is an important source of statistical information in most countries that is capable of producing reliable estimates of population characteristics for small geographic areas. One limitation of a census is that there are many population characteristics that cannot be collected due to respondent burden or cost. This means that statistical agencies have to conduct population b...

The Census Bureau released a report in April 1982 showing that if in-kind income from government programs--food stamps, subsidized school lunches, Public Housing, Medicare and Medicaid--is valued and added to money incomes, then poverty in 1979 was substantially less than the 11.1 percent of persons the Census had previously reported. This paper assesses the implications of that report for the ...

The older population in the world especially in Iran is growing. According to census the number of individuals aged is approaching5/07 million In 2006 the nation is bracing for the aging of baby boom generation in 20 next year, which will swell the 65 and older population to10 million By 2020 and 26 million by 2050. (Iran census, 2006) this population trends ported increased demand for health c...

A house is an essential human factor. A housing market is formed by the demand and supply of houses. A global housing market fluctuates by each country's policies and situations. Because of the various social, cultural and economic aspects affecting complexity, it is difficult to analyze the factors affecting the housing market. Consequently, in this paper, we analyze several housing market fac...

ALEXANDRA D. SYPHARD*{, SUSAN I. STEWART{, JASON MCKEEFRY{, ROGER B. HAMMER§, JEREMY S. FRIED", SHERRY HOLCOMB{ and VOLKER C. RADELOFF{ {Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA {USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA §Department of Sociology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA "USDA Forest Se...

Early in 1959 the Central Statistical Organisation had made a series of estimates of population growth, covering the Third, Fourth and Fifth Plans, which were accepted, pending the 1961 Census, as a working basis for the preparation of the Third Plan. These estimates now need revision, consequent upon the publication of the detailed age and life tables based on the 1961 Census data. An attempt ...