Dr. Sinding, 58, has many credentials, including posts as former head of the population office of the United States Agency for International Development, senior population adviser to the World Bank, director of population sciences at the Rockefeller Fund and, most recently, professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
This all echoes an early post here in which I interviewed Joseph Chamie, the former head of the United Nations population office, who described an extraordinarily variegated world of imploding and exploding populations, and inevitable rivers of migration and sources of conflict.
The Social Security Department and Population Office are the only sectors that can currently access that information.
People moving to Jersey will have to pay a registration fee under plans proposed by the population office.
In April 2003, the Population Office extracted a list of city residents comprising 4879 individuals born between 1934 and 1938.
For the reference population (office workers) the same type of sampling materials will be placed in a bag located in the working area, for example on a desk.
In addition to passive follow-up (standard examination of death certificates and hospital records), active follow-up is performed yearly using the files of the Cantonal Population Office (office in charge of the registration of the resident population).
One possible reason for the discrepancy between administrative and our survey coverage is that the Ministry of Health during the immunization campaigns relied on old projected population estimates from the district population office.
In particular, the prevalence of LBP with functional limitation according to the minimal definition of the DOLBaPP (12.4%) was comparable to the one-month prevalence of disabling LBP among an English speaking population (office workers in the United Kingdom [ 30]).
Participants' socio-economic characteristics closely reflected the Lausanne general population in the same age category in aggregate statistics from the Population Office (proportions of foreign nationality, distribution of marital status) or from the 2000 Swiss national population census (nationality, marital status, place of birth, living arrangement, professional activity – data not shown).
