SOCI 234 Lecture 6: Age and Sex Compositions
18 Feb 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
January 30th, 2019: rates of demographic events (e. g. Main thing to take away from this: we see these same patterns across different countries, and they don"t cross each other (nigeria has highest drs at youngest age, and highest at oldest age (at the end)) Rates: ex: older age groups have higher drs. Example: population distribut ions, proportion of the population. 2 things differently: ex: if both populations have the same number of people, which pop would you expect to have more deaths, you"d expect to see the most number of deaths in population a, because. If guessing, india looks like a young pop (only 4% of pop is over across pops) while can doesn"t classify as an old pop it"s definitely older than india. Can obvs has a v dif pop (but working age band doesn"t change. How do age compositions change? (touches on age specific rates being able to influence composition)
