The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Amfac Hotel, May 3-5, 1984. The program included 54 sessions of papers, 1 panel session, and approximately 27 round table luncheons. Abstracts of the papers are provided in the following pages in order of the session at which the paper was presented. Several abstracts have been revised and updated since their publication in the booklet distributed at the conference, and others are included that were not available at the conference. Addresses to which requests for copies of papers should be sent are also given. An index to authors of these papers is included at the end of this issue.