GG102 Lecture Notes - Birth Rate, Mortality Rate, Dependency Ratio
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Census; the count of the number of people in a country, region or city. Vital records; information about births, deaths, marriages, divorces and the incidences of certain infectious diseases. Family reconstitution; the process of reconstructing individual and family life histories by linking together separately recorded birth, marriage and death data. Crude density; total number of people divided by the total land area. Cohorts; group of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience. Dependency ratio; the measure of the economic impact of the young and old on the more economically productive members of the population. Participation rate; the proportion of a cohort or group that becomes involved in a specific activity such as attending school. Crude birth rate; the ratio of the number of live births in a single year for every thousand people. Fertility; the childbearing performance of a couple or population.
