This is a graduate research seminar unit. 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. 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.