The Southern Demographic Association (SDA) is a non-profit scientific professional association dedicated to the study of issues related to

population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

and

demography Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analysis examine ...

. Since 1982, its official journal is ''

Population Research and Policy Review ''Population Research and Policy Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering demography. It was established in 1982 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Southern Demographic Association, of which ...

''. The organization holds an annual meeting in the

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South) is List of regions of the United States, census regions defined by the United States Cens ...

. The organization was founded in 1970 in

Oak Ridge, Tennessee Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson County, Tennessee, Anderson and Roane County, Tennessee, Roane counties in the East Tennessee, eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville. Oak Ridge's po ...

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