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The inverse projection technique, developed by Ronald Lee in the late 1960s, is a well-known method used for “inferring levels and changes in fertility, mortality and population age distributions from observed series of births and deaths, along with some information about population size” [5]. It is a simple and flexible method to use. Over time, some extensions to the technique have been proposed to overcome the assumption of migration absence [4] and for the differentiation of population reconstruction by sex [1]. A further extension has been suggested by Rosina and Rossi [6, 9]. It takes into account some information about the age at death, which is usually available in Italian historical sources. The authors named this modified version of Lee’s algorithm Differentiated Inverse Projection (IPD).
The author thanks Fiorenzo Rossi and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna for their valuable comments on an earlier version of this chapter.
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Rosina, A. (2004). Using Information on the Age Distribution of Deaths in Population Reconstruction: An Extension of Inverse Projection with Applications. In: Barbi, E., Bertino, S., Sonnino, E. (eds) Inverse Projection Techniques. Demographic Research Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08016-0_3
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