Lecture 2: Population Characteristics Flashcards
It refers to the science to population.
Demography
What are three human phenomena.
Population size
Population composition
Population distribution
It is defined in terms of personal character of the members of its community.
Socio-demographic variables
It is the total process of collecting, compiling and publishing demographic, economic and social data pertaining to all person in a country at specified times.
Census
It Assigns individuals to the place of their usual residence regardless of where they were actually enumerated during the census.
De jure
It allocates individuals to the area where they were physical present at the census date regardless of where they usually live.
De facto
It refers to the continuous recording systems of vital events as they occur in the population.
Vital Registration system
It provides continuous recording of information on about the population in such a manner that data on particular events occurring to each individual in the population are maintained on a current basis.
Continuing population registries
It focuses on how the population are scattered across the space.
Population Distribution
It measures the average no. Of person per unit area or space.
Population Density
It is a type of population density on a more specific level.
Crowding index
Refers to the measurable characteristics of the population.
Population Composition
It indicates whether the population is young or old.
Median age
It relates the size of the dependent segment of the population to the economically productive-age group of the population.
Age dependency Ratio
It is the graphical presentation of the age and sex composition of the population at the same time.
Population pyramid
