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School of Demography · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course provides the basic analytical foundation for understanding societal change. It focuses on the key measures and techniques used to study the diversity of demographic change occurring in Australia and throughout the world. This includes methods for analysing fertility, mortality, migration and population compositions. The construction of life tables and populations projections are also introduced.
Group exercise
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Examinations x 2 (of 3 hours, held during the formal examination period, 25% each for a total of 50%)
Learning outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5
Class participation, including weekly in-lab demographic methods application
Learning outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of labs and 12 hours of directed online learning activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, R-coding, reading and writing.
Preston SH, Heuveline P, Guillot M (2001) Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes Additionally we will be using the online material available for free at the IUSSP webpage: Population Analysis for Policies & Programmes (http://papp.iussp.org/index.html)