DEMOGRAPHYdemography centers. Another main source of em-
ployment for demographers is government agen-
cies. Census bureaus and vital statistics agencies
both provide much of the raw material for demo-
graphic work and employ many demographers
around the world. There is a small but rapidly
growing demand for demographers in the private
sector in marketing and strategic planning.
Support for research and training in demogra-
phy began in the United States in the 1920s with
the interest of the Rockefeller Foundation in is-
sues related to population problems. Its support
led to the first demography center, the Office of
Population Research at Princeton University. The
Population Council in New York was established
as a separate foundation by the Rockefeller broth-
ers in the 1930s. Substantial additional foundation
support for the field has come from the Ford
Foundation, the Scripps Foundation, and, more
recently, the Hewlett Foundation. Demography
was the first of the social sciences to be supported
by the newly founded National Science Founda-
tion in the immediate post-World War II era. In
the mid-1960s the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development undertook support of
demographic research.
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Death Rates; Census; Demographic
Methods; Demographic Transition; Life Expectancy; Population)
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