Demographic techniques and their applications in a wide range of contexts. Emphasis is given to methods that are most commonly needed for population studies in Australia; the focus is on practical applications of methods, rather than mathematics. Coverage will include: methods of analysing fertility, mortality, migration and population composition; standardisation of rates; life tables; population projections. Students will receive training in the uses of microcomputer spreadsheets for demographic calculations.

Four assignments (25% each).

Normally offered every year.

24 hours of lectures and 10 one-hour computer laboratory sessions.

Any one of: 12 units of first-year courses in Anthropology or Archaeology (ARCH or PREH) or Geography or Sociology or Economic History or History or Political Science or Economics, or a later-year course of a Population Studies major, or with the permission of the lecturer.

Rowland, D.T., Demographic Methods and Concepts, Oxford 2003.