%0 Journal Article
%T Has a discipline come of age when it can boast several competing dictionaries?
%J Population index
%D 1988
%A McDonald, P.
%A Whithear, D.
%V 54
%N 2
%P 225-234
%X The authors review three recently published reference works in demography: the International Encyclopedia of Population, edited by John A. Ross; the Dictionary of Demography, by Roland Pressat, edited by Christopher Wilson; and the Dictionary of Demography: Terms, Concepts, and Institutions, by William and Renee Petersen. They also consider what the publication of such works tells us about the development of demography as a discipline.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Office of Population Research, Princeton University
%@ 0032-4701
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3643952