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Demography and Vital Statistics
This paper aims at teaching the students to develop their knowledge to make comparisons between countries' demography. Vital Statistic deals with laws of human mortality, morbidity and fertility.
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Demography and Vital Statistics (Theory) |
CO 85: Identify appropriate sources of vital data and analyze and apply the concepts of measurement of fertility on the population. CO 86: Determine the mortality on various types of population. CO 87: Utilize information based on the population and would be able to access and use such data to create a life table. CO 88: Construct and analyze the results of different types of national and international life tables and study about the Demographic structure. CO 89: Determine the migration rate and Deal with the problems of population projections. CO 90: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Classroom Assignment, Problem Solving Sessions.
Learning activities for the students: Assignments, Seminar, Presentation, Subject based Activities. |
Classroom Quiz, Assignments, Class Test, Individual Presentation. |
Vital Statistics: Meaning, definition and utility. Sources of demographic data- census, registration, ad-hoc surveys, hospital records. Demographic profile of Indian census. Rates and ratio of vital statistics. Fertility: Measurement of fertility – crude birth rate, general fertility rate, Age- specific fertility rate, total fertility rate. Gross and Net Reproduction Rates.
Mortality: Measurement of mortality, crude death rate, standardization death rates, age specific death rate, infant mortality rate and cause of death rate with their merits and limitations. Decennial population census in India.
Life table and its uses, assumptions, Construction of complete life table from graduated rates of mortality and evaluation of probabilities of survival and death from a life table. Makhemams and Gompertz curves.
National life tables, UN model life tables, Abridged life table. Stationary and stable population, concept and determination of the rate of increase in a stable population.
Internal migration and its measurement, migration models, concept of international migration. Net migration. International and postcensal estimates. Projection method including logistic curve fitting.
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- Volume II, The World Press Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, ninth edition.
- Gupta, S.C. and Kapoor, V.K.(2000): Fundamentals of Applied Statistics, S Chand &
- Company, New Delhi
SUGGESTED READINGS:
- Croxton, F.E. and Cowden, D.J. (1973): Applied General Statistics, Prentice Hall Of
- India, third edition
- Srivastava, O.S.: A Textbook of Demography, Vikas Publishing.
- Gupta, O.P.:Mathematical Statistics, Kedarnath Publication, Meerut
- Shrinivasan, K. and Srinivasan, K.: Basic Demographic Techniques and Applications.
e-RESOURCES:
JOURNALS:
- Sankhya The Indian Journal of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute
- Aligarh Journal of Statistics, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Aligarh Muslim University
- Afrika Statistika, Saint-Louis Senega University
- International Journal of Statistics and Reliability Engineering, Indian Association for Reliability and Statistic
- Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, Indian Society for Probability and Statistics
- Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Indian Statistical Association
- Statistica, Department of Statistical Sciences Paolo Fortunato, University of Bologna
- Statistics and Applications, Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications
- Stochastic Modeling and Applications, MUK Publications and Distributions
