Demographers
Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dēmos) meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω (graphō) meaning "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Educational institutions usually treat demography as a field of sociology, though there are a number of independent demography departments.Patient demographics form the core of the data for any medical institution,such as patient and emergency contact information and patient medical record data. They allow for the identification of a patient and his …
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UN: The United Nations · 2 January 2025 English
Formats Add to Basket Details SymbolE/ECA/CM/12/RES/577(XXI) TitleAfrican demographic training institutes. Call number UNE(01)/R3 AuthorsUN. ECA. [...] Conference of Ministers (12th : 1986 : Yaoundé) Date1986 Notes Adopted at its 247th …
RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 January 2025 English
U.S. Census 2020: Continuity and Change is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences . This introduction briefly describes the …
inequality. It includes work from sociologists, demographers, gender scholars, economists, political scientists …
RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 January 2025 English
This article traces the history of census undercount and its importance to civil rights. The Constitution mandates a census and calls for Congress to use the results to apportion seats …
for immigration quotas. Census undercount: Demographers to the Rescue The first statistical analysis … tempted to add a question on citizenship. As demographers predicted, this apparently re- duced the response … in one year. Mayor Michael Duggan and local demographers immediately recognized that these results were … staff, a group from Wayne State University, and demographers from the University of Michigan (Cooney et …
UN: The United Nations · 1 January 2025 English
C/1(XXIX) TitleRevised mandate of the Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demographers. Call number UNE(01)/R3 AuthorsUN. ECA. [...] Conference of Ministers (20th : 1994 : Addis Ababa) …
Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demographers. Call number UNE(01)/R3 AuthorsUN. ECA. Conference …
RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 January 2025 English
U.S. Census 2020: Continuity and Change is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction briefly describes the broad …
inequality. It includes work from sociologists, demographers, gender scholars, economists, political scientists …
RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 January 2025 English
Using the data on 6.8 million individuals from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses and the 2010 and 2019 American Community Surveys, we document changes in living alone over …
who live alone at the population level. As demographers have warned, demographic changes over time …
RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 January 2025 English
How have inequalities in job stability evolved in the twenty-first century between demographic groups? I compute expected job tenures, akin to life expectancy in demographic research, for the population as …
jobs was an early ambition of organizational demographers (Stewman 1988, 180–81), appropriate data for … cohort at time x that was of initial size l0. Demographers sometimes com- pute lx/ly, which captures the … demography was generally ignored by organizational demographers. By contrast, this research applies indirect … that change over time has posed prob- lems for demographers and remains an active area of research (Alba …
RSF: Russell Sage Foundation · 1 January 2025 English
According to the U.S. Census, the multiracial population grew 276 percent between 2010 and 2020 and now represents 10.2 percent of the national population. Some believe that norms of hypodescent, …
census procedures. Mechanism 1. Natural Growth Demographers distinguish between natural and social sources …
AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 30 December 2024 English
Executive Summary: Our societies are ageing structurally. With every day that passes, each working-age adult is entrusted with a higher number of retirees for whom to provide. The productivity burden …
the megatrend of “Demographic Change” with demographers from all continents except Antarctica. Its goal …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 27 December 2024 English
Fertility levels have greatly decreased in virtually every nation in the world, but the timing of the decline has differed even among developed countries. In Europe, Asia, and North America, …
countries with currently very low fertility. Demographers have termed these countries as the “lowest low …
