Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century. Data bases, substantive issues and methodological approaches seldom considered just a few years ago have become mainstream concerns in the area of applied demography.

This book derived from the 1st post-2000 national conference on Applied Demography, to be held in San Antonio, Texas January 7-9, 2007 under the sponsorship of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio, provides a unique opportunity to obtain an overview of the current state of applied demography. The work will provide a cross-sectional view of Applied Demography and an evaluation of its likely future.

Data Use And Measurement Issues.- Applied Demography at the Beginning of the 21st Century.- Measuring Population Change Using the American Community Survey.- Using the 2005 American Community Survey.- Address Coverage Improvement and Evaluation Program 2005 National Estimate of Coverage of the Master Address File.- Population Estimates And Projections.- Using Assessor Parcel Data to Maintain Housing Unit Counts for Small Area Population Estimates.- Aging and Elder Abuse: Projections for Michigan.- Methods for Measuring the Population after a Disaster.- An Evaluation of Population Estimates for Counties and Places in Texas for 2000.- Using Demographic Estimates and Projections to Improve Statistical Forecasting.- Measuring Uncertainty in Population Data Generated by the Cohort-Component Method: A Report on Research in Progress.- Applied Demography And Health.- Tuberculosis and Perception of Risk: A Comparison of Native Born and Foreign Born Persons in the United States.- Causes of Fire Deaths and Injuries in Anchorage, Alaska: Policy Implications.- Dispersion of Registered Death Causes as a Function of Age in the 1999 U.S. Population.- The Breadth Of Applied Demography.- Comparison of Potential Demographic Influences on Church Membership of Two United Methodist Congregations in San Antonio, Texas.- Linking Tax-Lot and Student Record Data: Applications in School Planning.- Demography and Turnover.- Household Consumption in China: An Examination of the Utility of Urban-Rural Segmentation.- How Chinese Children Spend Their Time.- Educating The Applied Demographer.- Introducing Survey Methods to Professional Students in Applied Demography.- The Academic Training of Applied Demographers: History, Evolution, and a Description of the First Ph.D. Program in AppliedDemography.- Conclusions.- Applied Demography in the 21st Century.