Demographic Measure

A Demographic Measure is a measure of a human population.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be defined on a Demographic Property.
  • It can (often) be referenced by a Demographic Study.
  • It can range from being a Demographic Count Measure to being a Demographic Rate.
  • It can range from being a Over Demographic Measure to being a Regional Demographic Measure.
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• Example(s):
  • a Births per Person.
  • a Labor Participation Rate.
  • an Unemployment Rate.
  • a Poor People Measure.
  • a Insecure Housing Measure, such as a unhoused population measure.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Behavioral Measure.
• See: Sociology.

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References

2011

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography
  • Demography is the statistical study of human population. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic human population, that is, one that changes over time or space (see population dynamics). It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of these populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging and death.

     Demographic analysis can be applied to whole societies or to groups defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion and ethnicity. Institutionally, demography is usually considered a field of sociology, though there are a number of independent demography departments. Formal demography limits its object of study to the measurement of populations processes, while the more broad field of social demography population studies also analyze the relationships between economic, social, cultural and biological processes influencing a population.

    The term demographics refers to characteristics of a population.

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