CPHM: DEMOGRAPHY Flashcards
is the statistical study of the human population.
Demography
• It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic human population, that is, one that changes over time or space.
Demography
• It encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and the changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging, and death
Demography
is the other common direct method of collecting demographic data.
• conducted by a national government
Census
• attempts to enumerate every person in a country. However, in contrast to vital statistics data, which are typically collected continuously and summarized on an annual basis, censuses typically occur only every 10 years or so and thus are not usually the best source of data on births and deaths.
Census
• Analyses are conducted after a census to estimate how much over or undercounting took place.
Census
2 ways of assigning people when the census is being taken
is done when people are assigned to the place where they usually live regardless of where they are at the time of census.
The de jure method
2 ways of assigning people when the census is being taken
is done when the people are assigned to the place where they are physically present at the time of the census regardless of their usual place of residence.
The de facto method
Registration systems such that collected by the________ deal with recording vital events in the community. Vital events refer to births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and the like.
civil registrar’s office
• They typically collect information about families or households, as well as about such individual characteristics as
- age,
- sex,
- marital status,
- literacy/education,
- employment status and occupation, and
- geographical location.
t or f
civil registrar’s office may also collect data on migration (or place of birth or of previous
Ceszenship, In guanties in which the vial registration system may be
incomplete, the censuses are also used as a direct source of information about fertility and mortality;
true
• study of the character, number, and distribution of living organisms residing in or migrating through particular places.
POPULATION
study of population for concepts in sociology, ecology, genetics and evolution by means of natural selection.
quantifiable foundation
(branch of sociology) is the study of the attributes of and changes in the aggregate number of people residing in particular communities around the world and their causes.
Human demography
t or f
- closely associated with social and biological sciences
- examines the relative size of a breeding group with respect to the age structure, number of viable offspring, survival rates, and longevity among separate aggregations
true
There are 3 principal uses of population data in health administration
- The computation of vital and health statistics rates and ratios
- Estimates of Population Size
Estimating the number of population in a smaller area
Maybe done by means of arithmetic and geometric increase method
Mathematical Estimates
assumed that the population increases at a constant amount per year difference between the last two censuses is taken and then divided by the number of year between them to get the average amount of population increase per year
a. Arithmetic Increase Method
- assume that population increases at a constant rate per year
- determination of annual rate of population change
b. Geometric Increase Method