DEMOGRAPHY Flashcards
the empirical and statistical and mathematical study of human populations. It focuses its attention into 3 human phenomena namely: population size, its composition or structure and spatial distribution.
DEMOGRAPHY-
3 Factors Causing population Changes in its Size
- Natality
- Mortality
- Migration
- pertains to all measurable characteristics of the people who make up a given population.
- Includes age, sex, marital status, occupation and education.
Population Composition
total process of collecting, compiling and publishing demographic, economic and social data pertaining,
at a specified time or times, to all persons in the country or delimited territory.
Census
Socio-demographic Variables being taken during Census
- Age
- Sex
- Race or ethnic origin
- Number of children ever born
- Literacy or educational attainment
- Marital Status
- Place of Birth
- Occupation
2 WAYS OF ALLOCATING PEOPLE ENUMERATED DURING CENSUS
a. De Jure Method
b. De facto method
where individuals are assigned to the place of their usual residence regardless of where they were actually enumerated during the census.
De Jure Method
where people are allocated to the areas where they were physically present at the censu date regardless of where they usually live.
De facto method
deal with continuous recording of vital events like births, deaths, marriages, adoptions, divorces and annulments as they occur in the population.
Vital registration systems
provide for a continuous recording of information about the population in such a manner that data on particular events that occur to each individual in a population , as well as in selected characteristics describing him are maintained on a current basis.
Continuing population registers
are the absolute numbers of a population or any demographic event occuring in a specified area during a specified time period.
Counts
a single number that represents the relative size of two numbers. It usually takes the form: a/b (k).
Ratio
special type of ratio in which numerator is part of the denominator. It takes the form: a/a+b (k).
*When k=100, the proportion becomes a percentage.
Proportion
refers to the frequency of occurrence of events over a given interval of time. Rates are very useful when events being studied are dynamic.
Rate
compares the number of male individuals to the number of females in the population.
Sex Ratio
Sex Ratio=
number of males / Number of females x 100
can be determined by computing for the sex ratio of each age group.
Sex Structure
provides an index of age-induced economic drain on manpower resources.. This ratio relates the size of dependent segment of the population to the economically productive age group of the population.
Age-Dependency Ratio
Age-Dependency Ratio=
number of persons 0-14 years old + number of persons aged 65 years and over / Number of persons 15-64 years old x 100
graphic way of describing the age and sex composition of the population.
POPULATION PYRAMID
average number of years an infant is expected to live under the mortality conditions for a given year.
=Life Expectancy at Birth