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Demographic Projections: User and Producer Experiences of Adopting a Stochastic Approach Cover

Demographic Projections: User and Producer Experiences of Adopting a Stochastic Approach

By: Kim Dunstan and  Christopher Ball  
Open Access
|Nov 2016

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Language: English
Page range: 947 - 962
Submitted on: May 1, 2015
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Accepted on: Aug 1, 2016
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Published on: Nov 23, 2016
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