FSS:ESOn4009 Advanced Methods of Demographi - Course Information
ESOn4009 Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2024
The course is not taught in Autumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Dr. Zuzanna Brzozowska, M.Sc., M.A. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Dr. Zuzanna Brzozowska, M.Sc., M.A.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites
- ! SOC608 Advanced Methods of Demographi
Students enrolled in this course must have completed the introductory course to Demography. Working knowledge of Excel and good understanding of quantitative research methods will make your course participation more efficient. This is an MA level course and this defines the teaching style, the anticipated workload, and the level of student involvement. Reasonable ability to read, write and speak English is anticipated. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Sociology (Eng.) (programme FSS, N-SO)
- Sociology (programme FSS, N-SO)
- Course objectives
- This is a course in methods of demographic analysis which will combine lectures and Excel exercises. It will cover the following analytical tools: life table (single and decrement), fertility measures (period and cohort measures), standardisation techniques, population projections, evaluating data quality, indirect estimation methods.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, a student will be able to: - compute demographic rates, population growth & decline, population structure, mortality measures, Lexis diagram - calculate life tables: single and decrement life table, stable/stationary models / population - Use fertility measures: period and cohort fertility, conduct standardisation - Do and analyse basic population projections - evaluate data quality and perform indirect estimation
- Syllabus
- - Refreshing the basics: demographic rates, population growth & decline, population structure, mortality measures, Lexis diagram - Life table: single and decrement life table, stable/stationary models / population - Fertility measures: period and cohort fertility, standardisation - Population projections - Evaluating data quality; indirect estimation methods
- Literature
- required literature
- PRESTON, Samuel H., Patrick HEUVELINE and Michel GUILLOT. Demography : measuring and modeling population processes. 1st ed. Malden: Blackwell, 2001, xiii, 291. ISBN 1557864519. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, Excel ecercises, group project, presentation, assignments (computations and reading), tests
- Assessment methods
- Research report and its presentation
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
- https://is.muni.cz/auth/person/241243
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmety/uplny_vypis?fakulta=1423;obdobi=7363;zuv=191423
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