Demography. A Short Introduction

Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Sociology - Methodology and Methods, University of Phoenix, language: English, abstract: Demography is a broad social science discipline. (“What is Demography”) The word ‘demography’ comes from the Greek word ‘demos’, which means population and ‘graphy’, which means to describe or draw. (Luczkovich) In it’s most simplistic terms, demography is the study of how human population changes. Various data is collected and then analyzed to see how populations...