DEMOGRAPHY

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is the statistical study of human
population.
* It encompasses the study of the size,
structure and distribution of populations
* spatial and/or temporal changes in
response to birth, migration, aging and
death

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Demography

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study of the character,
number, and distribution of living
organisms residing in or migrating
through particular places

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POPULATION

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*Social and Biological Science
*Size of Breeding Group

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FACTORS IN POPULATION

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• The computation of vital and health
  statistics rates and ratios.
• Setting up coverage of activities.
• Setting up norms for assignment of
  health facilities, staff and funds.

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three principal uses of
population data in health administration,

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• Continuous Population Registration
• Consist of registering births, deaths,
  emigration and immigration, making
  necessary additions and subtractions to
  the existing population.

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Estimates of Population Size

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Simple way of estimating the
number of population in a smaller area

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Surveys

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assumed that the population increases at
a constant amount per year

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Arithmetic Increase Method

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assume
that population increases at a constant
rate per year

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Geometric Increase Method-

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applied to whole societies or to
groups defined by criteria.
– education, nationality, religion and
ethnicity.

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Demographic analysis

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–limits its object
of study to the measurement of
populations processes

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Formal demography

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population
studies analyze the relationships between
economic, social, cultural and biological
processes influencing a population

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Social demography

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encompasses the
study of fertility, mortality and migration.

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Population studies

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the common direct method
of collecting demographic data.
* conducted by a national government
and attempts to enumerate every person
in a country.

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CENSUS

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official and
periodic enumeration of population

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Census

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collected
continuously and summarized on an
annual basis

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Vital statistics data

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done when people
are assigned to the place where they
usually live regardless of where they are
at the time of census

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De jure method

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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

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De facto method

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obtained data come
from a small number of people
proportionate to the total population, –the
results will always be generalized for the
whole population

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Sample Survey

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collected by
the civil registrar’s office deal with
recording vital events in the community

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Registration systems

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refer to births, deaths,
marriage, divorces and the like

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Vital events

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collect information about
families or households
– characteristics as age, sex, marital
status, literacy/education, employment
status

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Censuses

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Two methods of data collection:

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Direct and indirect data collection:

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come from vital statistics
registries that track all births and deaths.
- changes in legal status (marriage,
divorce) - migration (registration of place
of residence).

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Direct data

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collecting data are
required in countries where full data are
not available.

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Indirect methods

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where
survey researchers ask women how
many of their sisters have died or had
children and at what age.
–Other indirect methods include asking
people about siblings, parents, and
children

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Sister method technique

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the annual
number of deaths per 1,000 people.

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crude death rate

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annual
number of deaths of children less than 1
year old per 1,000 live births

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infant mortality rate

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the number of years which
an individual at a given age could expect
to live at present mortality levels

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expectation of life

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number of
live births per woman completing her
reproductive life, if her childbearing at
each age reflected current agespecific
fertility rates

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total fertility rate

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the average number of children a woman
must have in order to replace herself with
a daughter in the next generation.

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replacement level fertility

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expected number of daughters, per
newborn prospective mother, who may or
may not survive to and through the ages
of childbearing.

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net reproduction ratio

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one that has had
constant crude birth and death rates for
such long time that the percentage of
people in every age class remains
constant, or equivalently, the population
pyramid has an unchanging structure

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stable population

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one that is
both stable and unchanging in size. –it
can be expanding or shrinking

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stationary population

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Three Processes
*Populations can change

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A.Fertility B. Mortality C. Migration

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involves the number of
children that women have and is to be
contrasted with fecundity

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Fertility

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study of the causes,
consequences, and measurement of
processes affecting death to members of
the population

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Mortality

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refers to the movement of
persons from an origin place to a
destination place across some predefined, political boundary.

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Migration

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By determining the increase in the
population resulting from an excess of births
compared to deaths
To determine the increase in the
population using data obtained during
two census periods

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Method of measuring the Population
Size

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simply the
difference between the number of births
and the number of death occurring in a
population in a specified period of time

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Natural increase

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difference between the Crude Birth Rate
and the Crude Death rate occurring in a
population in a specified period of time

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Rate of Natural increase

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Measures the number of people that are
added to the population per year. This is
computed using the following formula

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Absolute increase per year

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actual
difference between the two census
counts expressed in percent relative to
the population size made during an earlier
census.

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Relative increase

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commonly described in terms of its age
and sex.
* Utilizes data who among the population
groups merits attention in terms of health
services and programs.

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Population Composition

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describe the sex
composition of the population, the nurse
computes for the sex ratio

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Sex composition

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divides the population
into two equal parts.

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Median age

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compares the
number of economically dependent with
the economically productive group in the
population

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Dependency ratio

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described
at the same time using a population
pyramid.

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Age and Sex composition

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described in terms of urbanrural
distribution, population density and
crowding index.
* The measures help how resources can
be justifiably allocated based on
concentration of population in a certain
place. Population distribution

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Population distribution

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simply
illustrates the proportion of the people
living in urban compared to rural areas

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Urban-rural distribution

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describe by which a
communicable disease will be transmitted
from one host to another susceptible host.
–This is described by dividing the
number of persons in a household with
the number of rooms used by the family
for sleeping

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Crowding index

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determine how
congested a place is and has implication
in terms of the adequacy of basic health
services present in the community

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Population density