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21801967 DEMOGRAPHY in Political Science for Cooperation and Development L-36 N0 REYNAUD CECILIA
(syllabus)
Introduction to Demography: definition of demography and population; the historical and actual demographic sources
Dimension and structure of population: the total of population, growth rates; population structure.
The dynamics of population: generic and specific rates; standardization; the demographic transition.
The analysis of demographic trends: Lexis diagram; rates and probabilities; longitudinal and yearly analysis.
Mortality: the measures of study on mortality; life-table; child-mortality.
Marriage trend: the marriage rates
Fertility: birth rates; fertility rates; reproductivity.
Migration: main migration sources; migration rates.
Forecasting: the main method of demographic projection.
Research material:
European population trends
Population ageing
Mortality
Child Mortality
Fertility
Projection of population
(reference books)
Poston, D. L., & Micklin, M. (Eds.). (2005). Handbook of population. Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Part I Population Structure
1 Age and Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Dudley L. Poston Jr.
2 Population Distribution and Suburbanization . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Avery M. Guest and Susan K. Brown
5 Demography of Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Marc A. Garcia, Catherine García, and Kyriakos Markides
Part II Population Processes
12 Fertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
S. Philip Morgan and Anna Rybińska
13 Infant Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Maria Perez-Patron and Bethany DeSalvo
14 Adult Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer, Patrick M. Krueger,
and Justin M. Vinneau
15 Internal Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Michael J. White and David P. Lindstrom
16 International Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean, and Sabrina Nasir
Research material
European population:
Eurostat: Population and population change statistics (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Population_and_population_change_statistics)
Population ageing:
Cap 6 – An ageing society – focus on the elderly in Eurostat People in the EU: who are we and how do we live? (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/7089681/KS-04-15-567-EN-N.pdf)
Mortality:
World mortality report 2017 HIghlights
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/mortality/WMR2017/WMR2017_Highlights.pdf
Child Mortality:
Levels & Trends in Child Mortality UN Report 2018 pag 1-14
(http://www.childmortality.org/files_v22/download/UN%20IGME%20Child%20Mortality%20Report%202018.pdf)
Fertility:
World fertility report 2017 HIghlights
https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/fertility/worldFertilityReport2015_highlights.pdf
Projection of population:
World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights
https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2019_10KeyFindings.pdf
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