Teaching and Training :: MPhil in Demography :: DOC5001F
Basic Demography
Postgraduate status. First semester. 2 x 2 hour classes
per week
Convenor
A/Prof.
Tom Moultrie
Prerequisites
As for admission to degree
Duly Performed Requirements
Submission of all tutorials, with a subminimum of 40%
Writing of three tests
Assessment
Tutorials
30%
Examination
June
70%
Description and objectives
This course offers a foundation in demographic methods
and principles, including the elementary analysis of mortality, fertility and
nuptiality. Emphasis is placed on application of knowledge gained in lectures to
problems using regional data. On completion of the course, students will have a
clear understanding of the fundamentals of demographic analysis, and be able to
apply these techniques to a range of simple demographic problems.
Course
outline
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Introduction
to demography: Why do we study population. Definitions. Sources and uses of
data
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Age
and sex structures of population. Exposure to Risk; Basic Demographic rates
and ratios
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Life
Tables: Introduction, construction and use. Relations between lifetable
quantities
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Life
Tables: Extension to stationary population concepts (L, T, e)
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Direct
and indirect standardisation
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Model
Life tables and their uses
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Measures
of fertility: period and cohort fertility rates
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Measures
of nuptiality: Natural fertility; Coale-McNeill and Coale-Trussell methods
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Multiple
decrement life tables
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Migration:
Introduction
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Population
projections: Introduction
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