A Demographic Approach to Social Accounting

There is no universally accepted organizing framework for social data in the United States. In fact, the fundamental single-year-of-age-, race-, and sex-specific population and vital event data are not published in a form that allows them to be organized into a consistent framework. This thesis applies accounting techniques based on the equal debits and credits principles of double-entry bookkeeping to available vital event data for births and deaths and unpublished population and net migration data from the Census Bureau. The end result is a demographic accounting system of single-year-of-age-, race-, and sex-specific data for the United States resident population for the years 1962 to 1977.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Mcmillen, Marilyn M.

• Sociology, Demography

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8203531

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70985