This course is planned to afford the concepts of demography and carry out different demographic techniques to measure population characteristics

Improve the knowledge of demography, population studies and the nature of demographic data.

Understand basic demographic terminology, such as morbidity, mortality, force of mortality, marriage, divorce and nuptiality.

Estimate the different parameters of vital events.

Construct the life table of the population

Identify population behavior in a particular region as well as whole country.

Differentiate age-sex composition, structure and its impact over the country and know the life durability of a country.

At the end of the course the students will be able to

unfold the fundamental concepts of demography.

describing various feature and explain the requirements of demography.

assemble information about causes of errors in age data and their detection techniques.

identify essential thoughts about demographic measures and their consequences.

Population Characteristics: Meaning of demography and population studies, Nature and sources of demographic data and their uses, Basic demographic methods, Study of size, distribution, educational, economical and marital characteristics of the population, Population change, Different growth functions, Urbanization, Age and sex composition and structure, Population aging, Evaluation of age and sex data, Myer’s, Whipple’s, UN age- sex accuracy indices.

Analysis of Demographic Events: Nature, Analysis of Fertility, Fecundity, Fecundability and Reproductivity, Study of Morbidity, Mortality, Force of Mortality, Marriage, Divorce and Nuptiality, Migration, Concept of stationary, Stable and Quasi-stable Populations, Graduation of Fertility and Mortality.

Life Table Analysis: Basic concept, Functions and types of life tables, Construction of conventional life tables by various methods, Applications of life tables in population studies, Model life tables.

Population Projection and Estimation: Nature and Methodology of Population Projection and Estimation, Evaluation of the Methods, Projection of Households and Families. Demographic Transition Theory.

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2)

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