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What is demography mean?

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Comes from Greek word demos for people, and Greek word graphie for writing.

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What is demography?

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Study of populations
Statistics that aim to analyze changes in population trends
Statistics of population characteristics such as age, income, birth rate, death rate.

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How is information gathered?

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Through a census that collects demographic factors associated with every member of the population.
Canada conducts a census every five years.
Statistics Canada puts together all the information together for the public to see.

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What are population patterns and distribution?

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The pattern of population in an area.
Distribution of settlements and people across given areas.

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Major types of settlement patterns?

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Nucleated or clustered
Dispersed
Linear

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Linear

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Dense or sparse
A settlement in which majority of the population in a given area is situated in a straight line

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Nucleated

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Dense
A pattern in which people are located closely together.

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Dispersed

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Sparse
A pattern in which people are spread far apart from one another in a given space or area.

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What is death rate?

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number of deaths per 1000 in a year

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What is birth rate?

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number of births per 1000 in a year

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What is depopulation?

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state of population decline

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what is migration?

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movement of people across boundaries to establish new residence.

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what is international migration

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movement between countries

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what is internal migration

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movement within a country

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what is emigration?

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leaving your country to live in another

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what is immigration?

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entering a country to establish residence.

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what is emigration rate?

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rate of people leaving per 1000 in a year.

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what is immigration rate?

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rate of people entering per 1000 in a year.

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what is infant mortality?

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death of a baby before the age of one.

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what is life expectancy?

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the average number of years humans could expect to live if mortality rates stayed the same.

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what is life span?

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the maximum age for humans under good conditions.

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what is natural increase/ decrease?

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the increasing/decreasing of births over deaths in a population.

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population density?

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how many people live in a kilometre squared.

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population distribution?

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distribution of settlements and people across a given area.

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how to calculate population density?

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population/area
round to the nearest hundredth: 4 or less stays the same, 5 or more add one.

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