GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Community Survey, Population Geography, Total Fertility Rate
14 Sep 2016
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How we know and describe a population. Where are they going and coming from. How do we manage and provide for a growing population. ** peak was at 2% in the 1960s. ** by 2050-16% will be in the old age bracket. Demography: the study of the characteristics of human population- deffiniton from textbook. 2 biggest questions in population geography: how many people are there, where are they and what are their characteristics. ** do it for legislative representation redistricting so that you have about the same amount people in each district. Race not until 2000 that you could mark ore than 1- key source of debate. Underreported groups: children, minorities, low income (includes homeless) Response rates- lower for undocumented and homeless. Overrepresented: those with multiple houses, college kids. Hire people to find homeless and help them to fill it out. Sent to a subset of american homes- 3. 5 million.
