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Among social scientists, demographers are apparently privileged. Their function being “the study of human populations primarily with respect to their size, their structure and their development” (IUSSP, 1982: 15), demographers have only three basic phenomena to describe, analyse, explain and forecast, namely births (fertility), deaths (mortality), and migrations (spatial mobility). Other phenomena, such as diseases (morbidity) and marriages (nuptiality), intervene only as “secondary” events, as factors playing a role in the explanation of mortality and fertility.
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Termote, M. (2002). The Explanatory Power of Migration Models. In: Franck, R. (eds) The Explanatory Power of Models. Methodos Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4676-6_9
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