SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Infant Mortality, Demographic Transition, Urban Sociology
5 Dec 2016
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Is concerned with measuring the size of populations, explaining their rise or decline, as well as documenting the distribution of such populations within and across the world. Population patterns are governed by 3 factors: Although the census is used as a form of data collection to find out the number of people in a population, it is not 100% accurate. The reason for this could be because of the illegal immigrants, homeless people, transients, etc Crude birthrates: the number of live births per year per 1000 persons in the population. Do not tell us what proportions of the population are males or females. They also do not tell us what the age distribution is. Population with higher percentage of females would have a higher percentage of birthrate. Crude birthrates are useful in making overall comparisons among different groups, societies, and regions. Fertility: the average number of live-born children produced by women of childbearing age.
