Karim is of the view that most social scientists and
demographers from the West as well as South Asia believed that fertility was generally embedded in cultural and religious factors, which encouraged families to have too many children.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said it had learned that another
demographer, Mohammad-Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, had been arrested and was also an academic in Australia.
But Eddie Greim of Graves Garrett in Kansas City, who led a pre-election legal challenge to the amendment, said he doubts that assigning the task to a
demographer would prevent partisan interests from creeping in.
These included a third-party validation survey of five per cent of randomly selected census blocks, supervised by a census commission comprised of reputed
demographers, the final report of which would be submitted within 30 days.
A Monitoring and Oversight Committee, comprising four senators Taj Haider, Hasil Bazinjo, Mushahidullah Khan and Mushahid Hussain Syed had to constitute the Census Commission of three noted
demographers through mutual consultation.
This is why we need a comprehensive approach," says the Armenian
demographer.
Wang Feng, a leading
demographer from the University of California, Irvine, dismissed Yi's claims as sensational, extremely sloppy and based on highly politicised back-of-the-envelope calculations.
For starters, there's what
demographers call the "natural increase" - the number of births in a given year minus the number of deaths.
reproductive age leave the country," the
demographer said.
That trend is expected to continue, with Hispanics "squarely within their peak fertility," with a population median age of 27, according to the report, citing Pew Hispanic Center
demographer Jeffrey Passel.
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demographer and economic analyst Matt Kinghorn.
Ashish Bose, pioneering
demographer, first heard about the draconian population control measures for the first time from his affable masseur Prabhu Dayal and later got it confirmed from field teams that he sent to the villages in Haryana.
"When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it's going to be a human catastrophe," said Arnon Soffer, a prominent Israeli
demographer who once advised Ariel Sharon.
"We're two to three years behind most Western countries at this point," says University of Pennsylvania
demographer Samuel Preston, a member of a National Academy of Sciences panel that convened to try to explain the lag.
