- Docente: Lucia Pasquini
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-S/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Statistical Sciences (cod. 8873)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows basic instruments to analyse structural and dynamic aspects of populations. Particularly, the student is able: - to measure population size, variation and distribution in time and space - to measure and analyse population structural characteristics - to measure and analyse demographic dynamics components
Course contents
Demographic survies. Sources of demographic data. Population amount, variation and distribution in the long run and in the space. Natural and migratory components of demographic change. Structural characteristics of population. Analysis instruments of demographic phenomena. The Lexis diagram. Cohort and contemporary analysis. Crude rates, age-specific rates and their relationships. Age-standardization methods.
Mortality by biodemographic and sociodemographic characteristics. Period life tables. Life tables conceived as a stationary population. Mortality by cause.
Crude and age-specific nuptiality rates. Nuptiality tables.
Natality and fertility. Reproduction measures.
Migration in population analysis
Readings/Bibliography
M. Livi Bacci, Introduzione alla demografia, Loescher, Torino, 1999.
Teaching methods
Lectures and empirical applications
Assessment methods
Examination aims to assess the achievement of the teaching
objectives:
- to measure the consistency, the variation and the population
distribution over time and space
- to measure and analyze the structural characteristics of the
population
- to measure and analyze the components of population
dynamics
The examination consists of a written test and an oral test. The
written test consists of eight theoretical questions (2/30 every question) and of an
exercise to resolve (14/30). The oral test is conditional on the
achievement of at least 18/30 in the written test. The final vote
is an average of the marks obtained in the two tests.
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, PC.
Office hours
See the website of Lucia Pasquini