Microcomputer Software for Population and Developing Planning: Proceedings of a Workshop

摘要

The report is a brief overview of a workshop on microcomputer-based software for population and development planning sponsored by the Committee on Population. It presents an inventory of available software packages for analyses of demographic processes and the interrelation of those processes with economic development. The packages reviewed are categorized as demographic, sectoral, training, and multipurpose models. The report also gives a sense of the range of issues that were discussed, including ways to improve future software evaluation.