Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Basic Concepts and Measures -- Age-specific Rates and Probabilities -- The Life Table and Single Decrement Processes -- Multiple Decrement Processes -- Fertility and Reproduction -- Population Projection -- The Stable Population Model -- Demographic Relations in Nonstable Populations -- Modeling Age Patterns of Vital Events -- Methods for Evaluating Data Quality -- Indirect Estimation Methods -- Increment-Decrement Life Tables (Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin)