Basic Concepts and Issues

Question 1

Demos means what?

Answer 1

people

Question 2

In the word demography what does ‘graph’ stand for?

Answer 2

to draw, explain, or describe.

Question 3

What is the domain of Demography?

Answer 3

To describe + explain the basic facts of the human population– it’s size, composition, distribution + impact on the social + physical world.

Question 4

What is demography interested in?

Answer 4

Interest in size, composition, distribution of human populations impact on the social + physical world.
(patterns, causes of pop. processes, consequences of pop. process)

Question 5

How do Populations change?

Answer 5

By the Demographic Balancing Equation

Question 6

What does the Demographic Balancing Equation look like?

Answer 6

POPULATION = FERTILITY+MORTALITY+MIGRATION

Question 7

How do you measure population change (Balancing Equation)?

Answer 7

POPULATION CHANGE = (BIRTHS-DEATHS) + (IN-MIGRANTS - OUT-MIGRANTS)