Index of Dissimilarity: A Measure of Relative Ageing of Human Populations

• Autores: Ashraf Khan Kayani, Zill-i Huma, Ahmad Raza
• Localización: Sincronía, ISSN-e 1562-384X, Nº. 50 (Spring 2009, Marzo-Junio 2009), 2009
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Index of dissimilarity is mostly used as a demographic measure of �evenness� of population distributions. In the present paper, an attempt is made to see if the index can be used as a measure of relative ageing of human populations. Relative ageing is operationally defined as a change in the agedness of a closed population resulting from different population growth rates or the differences in agedness of different age distributions resulting from growth rates held constant over a long period of time