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    sciences. Demography presents population data in‚ a systematic manner. Its importance could be gauged from the growing application of population figures in several disciplines of study. Its significance to the individual and society hardly requires any emphasis. In the recent decades population is multiplying by leaps and bounds. This phenomenon is having its impact in every sphere of human life‚ more particularly in the Social and economic life of the society. Significance of demography in different

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    Demography Demography is the statistical study of human populations and sub-populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic human population‚ that is‚ one that changes over time or space. It encompasses the study of the size‚ structure‚ and distribution of these populations‚ and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth‚ migration‚ aging and death. Demographic analysis can be applied to whole societies or to groups defined by criteria

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    difficult to define‚ even for professional sociologists. One useful way to describe the discipline is as a cluster of sub-fields that examine different dimensions of society. For example‚ social stratification studies inequality and class structure; demography studies changes in a population size or type; criminology examines criminal behavior and deviance; political sociology studies government and laws; and the sociology of race and sociology of gender examine society’s racial and gender cleavages.

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    Chapter 1 Introduction It was the development of ability to communicate through speech and tool making capacity that the Homo sapien sapien species got separated from rest of the higher mammals as these two capacities have been fundamental for ‘culture’ which is the most diagnostic feature of human society. In this the use of tools made of wood‚ stone‚ and bone appears to have been preceded. Thus “culture” could be broadly classed as material culture and non-material culture. Material

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    Scope of Demography The scope of demography has been classified into two sections: Macro-demography and micro-demography. While the former includes studies of systems‚ cultures and societies on a large scale‚ the later study the individual and the family as a unit of society. Thus the later study has smaller units and it is conducted intensively. In the words of Donald J. Bogue‚ “It is the study of the growth‚ distribution and redistribution of the population within a community‚ state‚ economic

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    Demography Demography can be defined as scientific‚ mathematical‚ statistical study of population in reference to population density‚ population density‚ population distribution‚ population size and structure‚ population composition. The word Demography was first coined by a Greek Mathematician‚ Achelle Guillard. What means Population? Population means the total number of children‚ youths‚ adults and old people of a certain locality‚ village‚ town‚ city‚ district‚ region or a country. In

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    Population Bulletin BY J A S O N B R E M N E R ‚ A S H L E Y F R O S T‚ C A R L H A U B ‚ M A R K M AT H E R ‚ K A R I N R I N G H E I M ‚ A N D E R I C Z U E H L K E WORLD POPULATION HIGHLIGHTS: KEY FINDINGS FROM PRB’S 2010 WORLD POPULATION DATA SHEET Vol. 65‚ No. 2 JULY 2010 www.prb.org Population Reference Bureau Population Reference Bureau The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population‚ health‚ and the environment‚ and empowers them to

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    Scope of Demography

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    CHAPTER ONE The scope of demography David Lucas January 2002 Demography focuses on fertility (births)‚ mortality (deaths)‚ and migration (territorial movements). A glance at the Australian newspapers in December‚ 2001‚ found articles on‚ abortion‚ ageing‚ late childbearing and asylum seekers‚ all of which are of interest to demographers and to the general public. Some definitions of demography are given in Box 1.1. The term demography meaning ‘description of the people’ was first used by the

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    Demography‚ Scope‚ Perspectives and Theory J C Caldwell 1 November 2000 Demography: Scope‚ Perspectives and Theory John C. Caldwell Health Transition Centre National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Australian National University Canberra The term “demography” has been widely used in English-speaking countries only from the mid -twentieth century. Earlier‚ “population studies” or‚ revealingly‚ “population problems” had been the common usage. There is still an inclination to restrict

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    Demographic situation in China: problems and consequences. The demographic situation in People’s Republic of China is one of the burning issues nowadays widely discussed in the global community. Today‚ China’s population is over 1.3 billion‚ the largest of any country in the world. So every 5th person in the world is coming from China. The population of China is greater than the entire world 150 years ago. Every year the population of China increases by 14 million people (the number of people in

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