# Ian Pool

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{{Short description|New Zealand demographer (1936–2022)}}
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| name              = Ian Pool
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| image             = Ian Pool CNZM (cropped).jpg
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| caption           = Pool in 2013
| birth_name        = David Ian Pool
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1936|11|22|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [Auckland](/source/Auckland), New Zealand
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2022|04|28|1936|11|22|df=y}}
| death_place       = [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton%2C_New_Zealand), New Zealand
| fields            = [Demography](/source/Demography)
| workplaces        = [University of Waikato](/source/University_of_Waikato)
| alma_mater        = [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University)
| thesis_title      = The Maori population of New Zealand
| thesis_url        = http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116979
| thesis_year       = 1964
| doctoral_advisor  = [W. D. Borrie](/source/W._D._Borrie)
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| spouse            = [Janet Sceats](/source/Janet_Sceats)
| children          = 2
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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](/source/Demography). He was the inaugural director of the Population Studies Centre at the [University of Waikato](/source/University_of_Waikato) from 1980 to 2004, and was made a [professor emeritus](/source/Emeritus) when he retired from the university in 2010.

==Biography==
Born on 22 November 1936 at "Edenholme", a private maternity home in the [Auckland](/source/Auckland) suburb of [Mount Eden](/source/Mount_Eden%2C_New_Zealand), Pool was the son of Doris Pool (née Messer) and James Pool.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19361124.2.2.1 |title=Births |date=24 November 1936 |work=[The New Zealand Herald](/source/The_New_Zealand_Herald) |page=1 |volume=73 |issue=22584 |access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref> He grew up in [Dargaville](/source/Dargaville),<ref>{{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}}</ref> and went on to study at [Auckland University College](/source/University_of_Auckland), graduating with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree in 1958, and a [Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts) with second-class honours in 1960.<ref>{{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}}</ref> He then earned a [PhD](/source/PhD) at the [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University) in 1964 with a thesis titled ''The Maori population of New Zealand'', supervised by [W. D. Borrie](/source/W._D._Borrie).<ref>{{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}}</ref>

An expert on the demographics of [Māori](/source/M%C4%81ori_people) 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](/source/United_Nations_Population_Fund) and the [Population Council](/source/Population_Council) in French- and English-speaking African nations, as well as in Asia and the Pacific.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="PANZ 2007">{{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}}</ref> He coined the term ''baby blippers'' in reference to the offspring of the later [baby boomers](/source/baby_boomers) in New Zealand, sometimes called the [echo boomers](/source/Echo_Boomers).<ref>{{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](/source/The_New_Zealand_Herald) |access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref>

Pool founded the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato in 1980, and remained as director of the centre until 2004.<ref name="PANZ 2007"/> Following his retirement from the University of Waikato in 2010, he was conferred with the title of professor emeritus.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In 1994, Pool was elected a [Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_New_Zealand),<ref>{{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}}</ref> and was awarded the society's James Cook Fellowship for 2004–2006.<ref name="PANZ 2007"/> In 2007, he was accorded life membership of the Population Association of New Zealand.<ref name="PANZ 2007"/> He was appointed a [Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit](/source/Companion_of_the_New_Zealand_Order_of_Merit), for services to demography, in the [2013 New Year Honours](/source/2013_New_Year_Honours_(New_Zealand)).<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Pool was married to [Janet Sceats](/source/Janet_Sceats), also a demographer, for nearly 60 years, and the couple had two children. He died in [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton%2C_New_Zealand) on 28 April 2022.<ref name="Death notice">{{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](/source/The_New_Zealand_Herald) |access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref>

==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}}

==References==
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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
Category:Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:James Cook Research Fellows

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