Preface; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis' Life and Work; References; 3 Notation and Definitions of the Most Important Terms in Demographic Analysis; References; 4 Development of the Demographic Grid: Did Lexis Invent the Lexis Diagram?; 4.1 Going Back in Time Looking for the Roots of the Lexis Diagram; 4.1.1 Year 1869 and Zeuner's Three-Dimensional Visualization of Demographic Data; 4.1.2 Year 1874-Knapp, the Inventor of Lifelines?; 4.1.3 Year 1874-Becker Develops the Idea; 4.1.4 Year 1875 and Lexis Enters the Scene

4.1.5 Year 1876-Lewin Continues in the Equilateral Approach4.1.6 End of the Nineteenth Century-Perozzo (1880) Returns the Third Dimension Inspired by Berg (1865); 4.1.7 Going Back to 1870-Is Brasche the Author of the "Lexis Diagram"?; 4.1.8 Year 1875-Verwey Introduces "Geometrical Figuring"; 4.1.9 Half of the Twentieth Century and Pressat Nearly Reinvented the Demographic Grid; 4.2 Practical Example of the Usage of Various Forms of the Demographic Grid; 4.3 Summary of the Historical Development of the "Lexis" Diagram; References

5 Life Table as One of the Most Important Models in Demography: Construction of the Life Table in General5.1 Description of the Life Table Functions; References; 6 Application of "Lexis" Diagram: Contemporary Approach to Demographic Visualization and Selected Examples of Software Applications; 6.1 Demographic Visualization in the SAS Software; 6.2 Demographic Visualization in R; 6.3 Demographic Visualization in Stata; References; 7 Conclusion; References