GEO 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Government Database, Baby Boom, Pension
1 Mar 2016
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Crude death rate: the number of deaths in a single year for every 1000 people in the population. Census: the count of the number of people in a country, region, or city. Marriages, divorces, and incidences of certain infectious diseases. Family reconstitution: the process of reconstructing individual and family life histories by linking together separately recorded at birth, marriage, and death data. Administrative record linkage: the linking together of a number of different government databases to build one database with much more detailed information on each individual. Crude density: arithmetic density: the total number of people divided by the total land area. Baby boom: the increased number of births in two decades following world war ii. Geodemographic analysis: the practice of assessing the location and composition of particular populations. Age-sex pyramid: a representation of the population based on its composition according to age and sex. Cohort: group of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience.
