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Griffith Feeney. Born 7 October 1943. Demographer. I am creating this user page on 8 December 2013 for the purpose of creating a subpage to draft an entry on William Brass, demographer. The subpage follows.

User:Gfeeney/William Brass, Demographer

William Brass (5 September 1921 - 11 November 1999) was a demographer best known for the development of "indirect" methods of estimating measures of fertility and mortality for use in countries lacking well developed civil registration systems.

His career began in 1948 at the East African Statistical Department, where he worked until 1955. From there he went first to the Univerity of Aberdeen (1955-1965) and then to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1965-1988). His research and professional activities continued from his retirement in 1998 until shortly before his death.

References

• Clelland, John. Obituary: Professor William Brass. The Independent, Friday 19 November 1999.

• Brass, William, Coale, Ansley J, Demeny, Paul, Heisel, Don F, Lorimer, Frank, Romaniuk, Anatole and van der Walle, Etienne. 1968. The Demography of Tropical Africa. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN-10: 0691093121 | ISBN-13: 9780691093123

• Brass, William. 1975. Methods for Estimating Fertility and Mortality from Limited and Defective Data. Based on Seminars Held 16-24 September 1971 at the Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia (CELADE), San Jose, Costa Rica. Occasional Publication, Laboratories for Population Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514 USA.

• Feeney, Griffith. 2001. Introduction to Brass Tacks. In: Basia Zaba and John Blacker, eds.), Brass Tacks: Essays in Medical Demography, 1-6. The Athlone Press, London & New York.

• Hill, Kenneth, Zlotnik, Hania, and Trussell, James. 1983. Manual X: Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation Population Studies No. 81, Department of International Social and Economic Affairs, United Nations, New York.

• Hill, Kenneth H. 2003. Brass, William. In: Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll (Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Population. New York, Macmillan Reference USA, vol.1, 105-106.

• Zaba, Basia, Blacker, John. 2001. Brass Tacks: Essays in Medical Demography - A Tribute to the Memory of Professor William Brass. The Athlone Press, London & New York. ISBN 0 485 11563 8 HB