Concept information
Preferred term
demography
Definition
- Demography is the study of human population. Demography may be defined narrowly as the “study of the size, territorial distribution, and composition of population, changes therein, and the components of such changes, which may be identified as natality, mortality, territorial movement (migration), and social mobility (change of status)” (Hauser and Duncan 1959: 31). [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Demography]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- births
- censuses
- composition of the population
- demographic analysis
- disproportionate representation
- employment patterns
- ethnic groups
- family characteristics
- geographical distribution of the population
- geographic distribution
- health status
- marriage rate
- mortality rates
- population density
- population distribution
- population dynamics
- population groups
- population policy
- population trends
- racial composition
- residence characteristics
- residential patterns
- school demography
- sex distribution
- urban demography
- vital statistics
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/demography
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