01:920:227 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: De Facto, Historical Demography, American Community Survey
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Population & society exam 1 study guide. The number of people in a given geographic area. The makeup of population in terms of characteristics such as age, sex, ethnicity/race. Hint: think about the diagram with the different shapes presented in class. Size is population as a whole, density is population in a given area, and composition is what different kinds of people the population is composed of. Absolute is the population as a whole and relative population is the population compared to a different population, like us is 3rd compared to other populations. Fertility (births), mortality (deaths), migration (movement of people across borders) Closed population: population with no migration; open population: population with migration. Through births, deaths & migration (natural increase & net migration) Difference between births and deaths in a given time period. The rate is the number of events occurring over population at risk.
