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School of Demography · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The course covers the theoretical models and tools to examine the growth, age-sex structure and spatial distribution of populations. Also covered are the concepts and measures used to describe and compare levels and age patterns in demographic processes, including marriage, fertility, mortality and migration. Topics may include the sources of demographic data, demographic accounting, population pyramids, the Lexis diagram, cohort measures, life tables, and population projections. The course focuses on understanding demographic concepts and measures, their application to data, and demographic interpretation.
Class participation
Learning outcomes 1, 2
Assignment: report
Learning outcomes 1, 3, 4
Assignment: video
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4
Examinations x 2 (of 3 hours, held during the formal examination period, 25% each for a total of 50%)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of lectures and computer lab activities, and 12 hours of directed online learning activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, R-coding, problem solving, reading, and writing.
Preston, SH, Heuveline, P, and Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 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)