Demographers

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dēmos) meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω (graphō) meaning "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Educational institutions usually treat demography as a field of sociology, though there are a number of independent demography departments.Patient demographics form the core of the data for any medical institution,such as patient and emergency contact information and patient medical record data. They allow for the identification of a patient and his …

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Wilson Center Canada · 5 February 2024 English

In the Since we want to compare across latter case, for example, projections indicate that an aging US regions and across time in this population and the decline in the …

While they have not fallen as quickly as some demographers expected, they have fallen. Yet, even with these 1948196355 1968 55 19531968 50 70 1973 Political demographers often use median age a 5045s6 5s4h5 orthand


Wilson Center Canada · 18 October 2023 English

Despite all the incredible technological innovation that has taken place in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea since 1980 (from cell phones and laptop computers to commercial solar …

completed, women’s earnings rise by 14.5%. Many demographers expect that universal quality secondary education


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English

After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million …

work of the professional class of doctors, demographers, economists, and health care workers, educated


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 31 January 2023 English

Executive Summary Canada’s fertility rate has fallen persistently for the last 15 years with no clear bottom in sight. To some commentators, this is a harbinger of troubles ahead, as …

of women achieving the lives that they want. Demographers around the world have often pointed to various


APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 26 January 2023 English

JANUARY 26, 2023 INSIGHT: GREATER CHINA China records first population dip since 1961, while policymakers struggle to catch up THE TAKEAWAY expect an even stronger surge in the number of …

reached its peak significantly earlier than many demographers had expected. The country’s population structure


RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 10 November 2022 English

The third part examines the capacity of the system and the need for institutional reform and includes briefs focused on education, the care economy, and the tax system. [...] What …

families. People are living longer—in fact, demographers calculate that Canadian adults will spend a


NPI: Northern Policy Institute · 11 August 2022 English

Northern Policy Institute expresses great appreciation for Published by Northern Policy Institute their generous support but emphasizes the following: The views expressed in this report are those of the author …

population to support themselves and others. Demographers measure the burden on the working population


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 30 June 2022 English

Toward principled governance for Canada’s immigration regime Canada has engaged in an immigration policy experiment of momentous importance over the last 25 years: it has almost doubled the flow of …

been effectively disposed of by economists, demographers and other social scientists, but with little benefits is very small,21 and for the work of demographers that have argued that immigration cannot be


Wilson Center Canada · 27 May 2022 English

Denmark is the Vice President of Programs and Director of Studies; Senior Advisor to the Asia Program; and Senior Fellow in the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States …

years and certainly by the end of the century.16 Demographers project that China will have to triple age-related


Wilson Center Canada · 4 December 2021 Spanish

We describe these conditions in the context of the development of this part of the state, and in the broader regional context that includes the places of origin of migrant …

agriculture nationwide, and well identified by demographers in urban Mexico, but it is worth analyzing to


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