SOCI 242g Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Life Table
10 Dec 2015
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Marriage is between man and woman but is okay to people be gay. Most versatile and most useful of the demographer"s tools. The mathematical model that portrays mortality conditions at a particular time among a population. Life tables available online to show how much longer a specific age group and gender has to live: limitations of these measures: This is a conservative number because if mortality continues to fall in the years ahead, your average expectations of life will be higher (changing) Map of migration by country (a lot of people migrating from south african countries to zimbabwe, people going to usa, Canada, russia, europe: 1 million more people moving into usa than moving out. Only takes legal immigrants into account: people leaving china, pakistan, philippines, indonesia, Debatable how reliable the data is on emigration. Sudan, mexico, india, syria (highest), bangladesh from war countries (mixed sources of data) Making maximum use of persons with special qualifications.
