Talk:Rochdale

message: Title: A Discussion on Demography and Demographics: Meaning and Applications
Introduction:
Demography and demographics are two closely related terms that play a crucial role in understanding and analyzing human populations. While they share similar roots, they have slightly different meanings and applications. In this discussion, we will explore the definitions of demography and demographics, and delve into their respective applications in various fields.
1. Demography:
Demography refers to the scientific study of human populations, focusing on their size, structure, and dynamics. It encompasses a range of factors, including birth rates, death rates, migration patterns, age distribution, gender composition, and socioeconomic characteristics. Demography aims to understand the processes that shape populations and the patterns that emerge over time.
Demography plays a significant role in various fields, including sociology, economics, public health, and urban planning. It provides valuable insights into population trends, such as population growth or decline, aging populations, and migration patterns. These insights help policymakers, social scientists, and organizations to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation, public policies, healthcare planning, and infrastructure development.
For instance, in urban planning, demography helps determine the needs of a population in terms of housing, transportation, and social services. By analyzing demographic data, planners can identify areas with increasing population density or an aging population, and accordingly develop strategies to address those specific needs (Bolay, 2019).
2. Demographics:
Demographics, on the other hand, refers to the characteristics of a population, typically based on quantifiable factors such as age, sex, race, education, income, occupation, and marital status. It involves the statistical analysis and interpretation of these characteristics to understand the composition and distribution of a population.
Demographics are widely used in marketing, market research, and business planning. By understanding the demographics of their target audience, businesses can tailor their products, services, and marketing strategies to meet the specific needs and preferences of different demographic groups. For example, a company targeting young professionals might focus on social media advertising and offer flexible, tech-savvy products (Babin & Zikmund, 2015).
Demographics also play a vital role in social science research, electoral analysis, and public opinion polling. These fields utilize demographic data to study patterns and trends within specific population groups, such as voting behavior, consumer preferences, and social attitudes.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, demography and demographics are interrelated terms that deal with the study of human populations. Demography focuses on the size, structure, and dynamics of populations, while demographics refers to the characteristics and attributes of specific population groups. Both demography and demographics have widespread applications in fields such as sociology, economics, public health, urban planning, marketing, and social science research. Understanding these terms and their applications enables us to gain valuable insights into human populations, inform policy decisions, and meet the needs of diverse communities.
References:
1. Bolay, J.-C. (2019). Demography and Urban Planning. In B. Warf (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the City (Vol. 1, pp. 285-288). SAGE Publications, Inc.
2. Babin, B. J., & Zikmund, W. G. (2015). Exploring Marketing Research (11th ed.). Cengage Learning. Exnihilox (talk) 23:32, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that ChatGPT, Google Bard or Microsoft Bing? Either way, you are pushing your own opinion against the views of multiple editors. Wikipedia is based on consensus not one person. You might do well to read WP:OWN and compare that against your own behaviour. 10mmsocket (talk) 07:25, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demography versus Demographics 

message: So, after all the shenanigans of the past few days that led to Exnihilox and his IP address being blocked for sockpuppetry, we can now start the process of undoing the damage caused to the article. Right now the sections are back in the correct order with the correct names per Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements, and the Demography section is as it was before with the 2001 and 2011 comparisons between the town and the borough. I have however added a note that 2021 Census data isn't (yet) available at the town or parish level. Feel free to undo any of Exnihilox's (or mine!) other edits. Hopefully we can now work together to improve the article further. 10mmsocket (talk) 06:50, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW, 2021 data is now available at ward and lower levels, but not at any URL specific to the location. Starting at , datasets for religion, ethnic group, housing, travel to work and more, some with or without age and so on, are listed. From there at eg Religion or Religion (detailed) you can reach pages which default to Lower tier local authorities, but that can be changed to a finer scale (much finer for Religion than for Religion (detailed)). Smaller downloads are available as .xlsx, but larger ones (over 1,000,000 rows) only as .csv; Religion (detailed) by Electoral wards and divisions is a 25 MB csv download. You could then filter that for the required ward or output area in a spreadsheet or query it in a database. I think that as long as you're explicit about the specific ward or output area used, WP:V's  is satisfied, but I can see questions arising because of the Area type default; maybe citations should include a note "with Area type set to Electoral wards and divisions" or suchlike. We'd still look forward to citing a NOMIS-style specific page. NebY (talk) 12:01, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's really useful thank you. Will take a look 10mmsocket (talk) 18:01, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
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