Ian Pool
{{Short description|New Zealand demographer (1936–2022)}}
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| birth_name = David Ian Pool
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| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|04|28|1936|11|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Hamilton, New Zealand
| fields = Demography
| workplaces = University of Waikato
| alma_mater = Australian National University
| thesis_title = The Maori population of New Zealand
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| thesis_year = 1964
| doctoral_advisor = W. D. Borrie
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David Ian Pool {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CNZM|FRSNZ|size=85%}} (22 November 1936 – 28 April 2022) was a New Zealand demographer. He was the inaugural director of the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato from 1980 to 2004, and was made a professor emeritus when he retired from the university in 2010.
Biography
Born on 22 November 1936 at "Edenholme", a private maternity home in the Auckland suburb of Mount Eden, Pool was the son of Doris Pool (née Messer) and James Pool.{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2022/12335 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=2 May 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19361124.2.2.1 |title=Births |date=24 November 1936 |work=The New Zealand Herald |page=1 |volume=73 |issue=22584 |access-date=2 May 2022}} He grew up in Dargaville,{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/northland-the-real-deal-says-new-immigrant-family-from-uk/422ICE5M5HROGHQ3IDQU2C547Q/ |title=Northland the real deal, says new immigrant family from UK |date=27 October 2005 |work=Northern Advocate |access-date=2 May 2022}} and went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958, and a Master of Arts with second-class honours in 1960.{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university19.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: P |website=Shadows of Time |access-date=2 May 2022}} He then earned a PhD at the Australian National University in 1964 with a thesis titled The Maori population of New Zealand, supervised by W. D. Borrie.{{cite thesis |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116979 |title=The Maori population of New Zealand |type=PhD |year=1964 |first=D. I. |last=Pool |location=Australian National University |hdl=1885/116979 |access-date=2 May 2022}}
An expert on the demographics of Māori from pre-colonial times, as well as on the New Zealand population in general, Pool also researched and published on African demography, and undertook missions for international organisations including the United Nations Population Fund and the Population Council in French- and English-speaking African nations, as well as in Asia and the Pacific.{{cite web |url=https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2140/html/contributors.xhtml |title=Indigenous data sovereignty – contributors |publisher=Australian National University |access-date=2 May 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://population.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/panz-newsletter-nov-07.pdf |title=Life membership nomination of the Population Association of New Zealand for Professor Ian Pool |pages=11–13 |work=Population Association of New Zealand Newsletter |date=November 2007 |access-date=2 May 2022}} He coined the term baby blippers in reference to the offspring of the later baby boomers in New Zealand, sometimes called the echo boomers.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/secondary-schools-battling-the-bulge/H6TL3QD6DNFN4ZWYQPMWL4NJTE/ |title=Secondary schools battling the bulge |first=Alan |last=Perrott |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=2 May 2022}}
Pool founded the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato in 1980, and remained as director of the centre until 2004. Following his retirement from the University of Waikato in 2010, he was conferred with the title of professor emeritus.{{cite news |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/assets/documents/2010-Academy-Annual-Report.pdf |work=2010 Academy Annual Report |title=Emeritus professor status |year=2010 |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=2 May 2022}}
In 1994, Pool was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/p-r/ |title=List of all Fellows with surnames P–R |publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=2 May 2022}} and was awarded the society's James Cook Fellowship for 2004–2006. In 2007, he was accorded life membership of the Population Association of New Zealand. He was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to demography, in the 2013 New Year Honours.{{cite web | url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2013 |title=New Year honours list 2013 |date=31 December 2012 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=2 May 2022}}
Pool was married to Janet Sceats, also a demographer, for nearly 60 years, and the couple had two children. He died in Hamilton on 28 April 2022.{{cite news |url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/ian-pool-obituary?pid=201913648 |title=Ian Pool obituary |date=2 May 2022 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=2 May 2022}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |first=D. Ian |last=Pool |title=Te iwi Maori: a New Zealand population, past, present & projected |year=1991 |publisher=Auckland University Press |isbn=1869400496}}
- {{cite book |first1=Ian |last1=Pool |display-authors=etal |title=New Zealand's contraceptive revolutions |year=1999 |publisher=Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato |isbn=1877149993}}
- {{cite book |first1=Ian |last1=Pool |first2=Arunachalam |last2=Dharmalingam |first3=Janet |last3=Sceats |title=The New Zealand family from 1840 a demographic history |year=2007 |publisher=Auckland University Press |isbn=9781869403577}}
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Category:People from Dargaville
Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:Australian National University alumni
Category:New Zealand demographers
Category:Academic staff of the University of Waikato
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand