This textbook presents an overview of the field of demography from a contemporary perspective. Designed as an introductory text for undergraduates and graduates, it lays out the basic concepts, methods, and applications of the field of demography . It describes the unique characteristics of the field, reviews the basic demographic processes, and provides an overview of the analytical techniques utilized by population scientists. It emphasizes the applied nature of demography and includes a ... What exactly is demography ? 🔗 Think of demography as the detective work of population science. Just like a detective pieces together clues to solve a mystery, demographers collect and analyze data to understand how human populations grow, shrink, and transform over time. The word “ demography ” comes from two Greek words: “demos” meaning people, and “graphy” meaning writing or description. So essentially, demography is the art and science of describing people – not just ... Thus, demography is the scientific study of human population. The three components of population change viz. (i) Birth (ii) Death and (iii) Migration are core to the domain of population studies. Since its founding in 1964, the population research journal Demography has mirrored the vitality, diversity, high intellectual standard, and wide impact of the field on which it reports. Demography presents the highest-quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines that includes anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population ...
