Points of Departure: Emigration from the United States • Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, University of Notre Dame ; Ellen Kraly, Colgate University

Design of Samples for International Migration Surveys: Methodological Considerations, Practical Constraints, and Lessons Learned from a Multi-Country Study in Africa and Europe • George Groenewold, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Richard Bilsborrow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Some New Demographic Equations in Survival Analysis under Generalized Population Model: Applications to Swedish and Indian Census Age-Data for Estimating Adult Mortality • Subrata Lahiri, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

New Approaches to Measuring Emergent U.S. Demographic Trends • John F. Long, U.S. Census Bureau