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Development of the Demographic Grid: Did Lexis Invent the Lexis Diagram?

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This chapter summarizes and describes the chronological development of the demographic grid (known as the Lexis diagram). When the order of the presented versions of the diagram is not strictly chronological, the reason is for better context or possibility of direct comparison. All the introduced versions of the diagram are described and graphically illustrated. For all the versions of the diagrams (where possible), the primary sets of events are defined as well as the initial and exposed population sizes related to these primary sets. These terms are crucial for calculating the rates (number of events divided by the exposed population) or probabilities (number of events divided by the initial population size) in demography.

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    The Lexis diagram works on the same principle for all demographic processes, and therefore it can be applied for fertility, nuptiality, divorce, abortion, or migration too. The Lexis diagram representations can be applied to survey data also.

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    See Chap. 3 for definitions of the symbols used throughout the whole book.

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    Headquarters of the North American Cimrman Society. (2016). Jara Cimrman. https://jaracimrman.wordpress.com/cimrman/. Accessed on 26 June 2016.

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Hulíková Tesárková, K., Kurtinová, O. (2018). Development of the Demographic Grid: Did Lexis Invent the Lexis Diagram?. In: Lexis in Demography. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67992-1_4

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