Students undertake directed readings, seminar presentations, and preparation of a paper or project. This is a graduate research seminar unit. Students undertake directed readings, seminar presentations, and preparation of a paper or project. The Gender and Population unit is designed for practitioners who want to integrate a gender approach into development programs, and graduate students interested in gender, population and development issues. This is a graduate research seminar unit.
Students undertake directed readings, seminar presentations, and preparation of a paper or project.
The component method of projection is covered in detail, including the methods and considerations involved in deriving projection assumptions about fertility, mortality and migration. Interpretation of the projections includes examining the ways in which age structure and various demographic indices are determined by the basic processes of fertility, mortality and migration. Topics include the dynamics of population growth, the momentum of growth, the length of a generation and its effect on growth, and stable population theory. Special topics include the projection of the labour force, the school age population and households. Students will be introduced to relevant computer software.