Demographic Statistics (7 ECTS)

    Course Code: 
    6134
    Semester: 
    4th
    Elective Courses
    Διδάσκων: 

    Appointed Instructor

    Basic concepts: Demographic events, types of demographic data, sources of demographic data, demographic data publications, demographic measures, population evolution – basic equation. Mortality, mortality per cause of death, mortality measures, mortality probability, mortality comparisons – standardization methods, direct and indirect standardization. Life tables: building a life table, the life table as a stationary population, mortality rate, stochastic approach to life table functions. Parametric and non-parametric mortality models, Mortality age, Multiple decrement tables, Fertility measures, reproduction factors, Parametric and non-parametric fertility models. Estimations, projections and population projections: projection techniques, probabilistic population projection.

    Recommended Reading

    • Παπαδάκης Μ., Τσίμπος Κ., Δημογραφική Ανάλυση-Αρχές, μέθοδοι, υποδείγματα, Εκδόσεις Σταμούλη Α.Ε., 2004.
    • Keyfitz, Nathan, Caswell, Hal (2010). Applied Mathematical Demography (Statistics for Biology and Health). Springer.
    • Preston, S., Heuveline, P., Guillot, M. (2000). “Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population processes” Blackwell publishing.
    • Colin Newell, (1990). Methods and Models in Demography. Guilford Press.
    • Shiva S. Halli, K. Vaninadha Rao (1992). Advanced Techniques of Population Analysis, Plenum Pub Corp.
    • Κωστάκη, Α.  “Δημομετρία”. Σημειώσεις διδασκαλίας.

    The course outline is here.