Demographic Techniques I

The module introduces students to the basic techniques of formal (statistical) demographic analysis. All demographic sub-fields will be covered at a basic level: marriage, fertility, mortality, population growth, migration, as well as techniques and purpose of standardization and evaluation of data.

The module also aims at familiarizing students to theories of the interrelationship between population, resources and development as well as to the complexities of interdisciplinary nature of population and economic development, and to population policies.