User:Gfeeney

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.