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Relating to population statistics, changes, and trends based on measures of fertility, mortality, and migration.
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... ( demographics , demographic analysis ) The statistical study of human populations, including size, structure, and changes. ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.)
... [Ge] The study of populations. See palaeodemography...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n. The study of human populations, especially as regards size, structure, density, and distribution. demographic adj . [From Greek demos the people + graphein to...
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World Encyclopedia
... Term introduced ( 1855 ) by Achille Guillard for the scientific study of human populations and their changes, movements, size, distribution and structure. The primary sources of data are the census and vital statistics. Demographic methods are used for gauging and anticipating public...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)
... The scientific study of populations, their age-structure, migrations, mortality rate, occupations, and other factors affecting the quality of life within the...
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A Dictionary of Geography (5 ed.)
... The observed, statistical, and mathematical study of human populations, concerned with the size, distribution, and composition of such...
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A Dictionary of Statistics (3 ed.)
... The study of human populations, particularly with respect to births, marriages, deaths, employment, migration, health,...
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A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... The study of human populations, including their size, composition (by age, sex, occupation, etc.), and sociological features (birth rate, death rate,...
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A Dictionary of Nursing (7 ed.)
...demography [di- mog -răfi] n. the study of the populations of the world, their racial make-up, movements, birth rates, death rates, and other factors affecting the quality of life within them....
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A Dictionary of Epidemiology (6 ed.)
...Demography The study of populations, especially with reference to size and density, fertility, mortality, growth, age distribution, migration, and Vital Statistics , and the interaction of all these with social and economic conditions. ...
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A Dictionary of Marketing (4 ed.)
... The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, sex, race, occupation, and other statistics. It is also the description of the vital statistics or objective and quantifiable characteristics of an audience or population. Demographic designators include age, marital status, income, family size, occupation, and personal or household characteristics such as age, sex, income, or educational level. Demographics are used extensively in marketing . See also geodemographics...
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
... The study of human populations in terms of size, growth, movement, composition, and other variables. Demographic analysis became a possibility as increasingly organized methods of documenting populations were implemented in the nineteenth century. These allowed for the first accurate measures of birthrates, mortality, and the analysis of subdivisions of the population (age, marital status, educational level, and so on). Data of this kind quickly found a place in a wide range of social science research. The term population studies is often used to...
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A Dictionary of Zoology (5 ed.)
... The statistical study of the size and structure (e.g. with regard to age or sex distribution) of populations and of changes within them. The word is derived from the Greek demos , ‘people’, and graphe , ‘writing’....
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A Dictionary of Dentistry (2 ed.)
... n. The statistical study of human populations on a national, regional, or local basis, especially with reference to size and density, distribution, and vital statistics. It is used in dentistry to identify oral health needs ( see oral health needs assessment ) and risk factors for a given...
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Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
... n. the study of populations on a national, regional, or local basis in terms of age, sex, and other variables , including patterns of migration and survival. It is used in public health medicine to help identify health needs and risk factors . See also biostatistics...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
...of demography.) Originating in the theory of demographic transition, this periodization scheme locates, between two periods of relative stability, a turbulent transitional period during which a demographic pattern of roughly balanced high birth- and death rates gives way to one of roughly balanced low birth- and death rates. Demographic Transition. Although theorists of demographic transition once portrayed the decline in fertility as a response to a reduction in mortality, by the twenty-first century this theory had come to be seen as a useful description,...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
... Demography examines the sources and consequences of population increases or decreases. This, in turn, involves assessing the rates of birth, death, and geographic movement—fertility, mortality, and migration. Historically, American demography fits into a three-stage progression characteristic of societies that now have low birth and death rates. Convenient labels for these three stages are Malthusian frontier, neo-Malthusian, and post-Malthusian. (The term “Malthusian” comes from Thomas Robert Malthus, a pioneering English theorist of demography)....
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The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Demography. Demography examines the sources and consequences of population increases or decreases. This, in turn, involves assessing the rates of birth, death, and geographic movement—fertility, mortality, and migration. Historically, American demography fits into a three-stage progression characteristic of societies that now have low birth and death rates. Convenient labels for these three stages are Malthusian-frontier, neo-Malthusian, and post-Malthusian. (The term “Malthusian” comes from Thomas Robert Malthus , a pioneering English theorist of demography)....
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
... The study of human populations, their growth and decline, due to changing patterns of migration , fertility and mortality , and characteristics such as the sex ratio , dependency ratio, and age structure. The subject is sometimes divided for further elucidation into ‘formal demography’, meaning the formal statistical analysis of population parameters and dynamics, and ‘population studies’, the wider investigation of the causes and consequences of population structures and change. It is in the latter area that many demographers have interests which...
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Encyclopedia of Evolution
... Demography is the study of populations and the processes that shape them. Demographic concepts and techniques are important in evolutionary biology both for what they tell us about the ecological theater in which evolution is played out and, more specifically, as tools to study the evolution of life histories and senescence. Demographers are concerned with the size, distribution, and age structure of populations (statics) and the forces that cause these quantities to change (dynamics). In population biology, demographic ideas are used most extensively...
