- Introduction to the concepts of population and demography
- Methods and theories of demography
- Introduction to population studies: understanding the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of demographic phenomena
- Sources and nature of population data
- Population data: methods of collection and applications
- Errors in demographic data
- Population composition: age, sex, and economic structure
- The ‘laws’ of population change
- Factors that shape the age structure of a population
- Age structure analysis
- Fertility: meaning, measures, trend, family planning, assumptions and limitations of different models of fertility change
- The fertility transition
- Coale’s preconditions of fertility
- Mortality and population health
- Measures of mortality, trends, and determinants
- The life table
- Migration and population distribution: internal and international migration, population and resources
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
