- Docente: Aurora Angeli
- Credits: 5
- SSD: SECS-S/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in STATISTICAL SCIENCES (cod. 8054)
Learning outcomes
The aim is to give students instruments for understanding and analyzing demographic behavior. Relationships between the processes of population characteristics and the evolution of aggregate demographic and economic and social dynamics are discussed.
Course contents
Introduction to population studies.
Basic demographic processes: fertility, mortality, migration.
Estimates and projections of demographic data.
Demographic structure and consumer behaviour
The situation of world population. The Italian demography in the European context.
Readings/Bibliography
A book to choose between the two
Massimo Livi Bacci: "Introduzione alla demografia", last edition, Loescher.
Gian Carlo Blangiardo: Elementi di demografia Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons; discussion of arguments that the students can deepen.
Assessment methods
Written and oral examination. The written test includes a
obligatory question and 2 questions that the student can choose
within a list of 5. The written test lasts for an hour, it is not
permitted the use of books and notes.
The overcoming of written test allows access to the oral test.
To support the written test, the student must enroll via electronic bulletin board in accordance with mandatory deadlines. If the student fails to enroll by the due date he must communicate, before the official closing of the lists, the problem to the teacher who will place him in the list.
Teaching tools
pc, videoprojector, overhead projector
Office hours
See the website of Aurora Angeli