SOCd0117 Applied demography

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
! SOC1003 Applied demography && !NOW( SOC1003 Applied demography )
Familiarity with basic demographic concepts and methods (demographic rates, population projections). Familiarity with quantitative data and principles of quantitative data management and analysis. Software skills - STATA, R. Completion of Advanced demographic methods course (might be offered as a seminar in SOC932-Data analysis)..
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
Course objectives
The goal of the course is to effectively use demographic data for decision-making. Course content focuses on the production and utilization of demographic knowledge in the public sphere (need evaluation in social, health and caring services, description of spatial mobility and settlement patterns, public transportation use, school enrollment trends and predictions etc.) as well as in businesses (purchasing power analysis, labor force structure evaluation and prediction etc.). It will also include policy impact analysis.
Learning outcomes
students can carry out small-area population projection, can predict population size and structure (by age, sex, and education) and can prepare population analysis/projection according to the needs of the client can conduct policy impact analysis
Syllabus
  • population projections - cohort component method small area population projection demography and need evaluation demography in education demography in health business demography
Literature
  • The frontiers of applied demography. Edited by David A. Swanson. Switzerland: Springer, 2017, xv, 517. ISBN 9783319433271. info
  • Emerging techniques in applied demography. Edited by Nazrul Hoque - Lloyd B. Potter. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015, xv, 393. ISBN 9789401789899. info
  • Applied demography in the 21st century. Edited by Steve H. Murdock - David A. Swanson. New York: Springer, 2008, xii, 371. ISBN 9781402083297. info
  • CASELLI, Graziella and Guillaume WUNSCH. Demography : analysis and synthesis. Edited by Daniel Courgeau - Jacques Vallin. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, xxiv, 977. ISBN 0127656642. info
  • CASELLI, Graziella and Guillaume WUNSCH. Demography : analysis and synthesis. Edited by Daniel Courgeau - Jacques Vallin. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, xx, 465. ISBN 0127656626. info
  • CASELLI, Graziella, Jacques VALLIN and Guillaume WUNSCH. Demography : analysis and synthesis. Edited by Daniel Courgeau. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006, xxiv, xi. ISBN 0127656618. info
  • SIEGEL, Jacob S. Applied demography : applications to business, government, law and public policy. San Diego: Academic Press, 2002, xxii, 686. ISBN 0126418403. info
  • The demography of health and health care. Edited by Louis G. Pol - Richard K. Thomas. 2nd ed. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002, xiv, 389 p. ISBN 0306463377. info
Teaching methods
lectures, seminars, practical exercises, homework
Assessment methods
homeworks, tests, final paper
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blokově.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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