Abstract
Consider a demographic process (natality or mortality, for example) relating to a group of N persons having experienced a particular event, hereafter called event-origin, during the same period of time, for example, during the same calendar year. This group of persons having experienced a particular event-origin (e.g., birth or marriage) during the same period will be called a cohort For example, when birth is the event-origin considered, the related cohort will be specified by the name birth-cohortw1 ; birth-cohort 1936 will thus refer to all persons born during the year 1936 in the area considered (e.g., in the USA).
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Wunsch, G.J., Termote, M.G. (1978). Basic Principles of Cohort Analysis. In: Introduction to Demographic Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2373-0_2
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