SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Infant Mortality, 2015 Fifa Women'S World Cup, Black Death
30 Nov 2018
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Characteristics of a population: overall size, proportions of socially relevant categories (ethnicity, gender, religion, etc. , rates of change in these populations (how quickly are they growing/shrinking?, mechanisms of change in populations (why this happened?) Scale of analysis: can be at level of city, province, country, or planet (in practice, often national scale) Describing population change: 3 factors affect changes in population size, birth, death, migration. Death statistics: crude death rate: # of deaths in a given time period per 1000 population. Morbidity rate incidence rate from disease: age-and-sex specific mortality rates i. e. infant mortality (number of children who die within a year of birth per 1000 live births) Migration statistics: immigration vs. emigration immigration = migration in to a country; emigration = migration out of a country, net number of migrants: immigrants minus emigrants, net migration rate: # of migrants per 1000 residents.
