{"id":49,"date":"2015-09-17T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/developmentstudies\/introduction-to-demography-and-population-studies\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:19:17","slug":"introduction-to-demography-and-population-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cssh.sua.ac.tz\/developmentstudies\/introduction-to-demography-and-population-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Demography and Population Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i>RD 203: Introduction to Demography and Population Studies (1 Credit: 30 Lect., 30 Sem, 0 Pract.)<\/i><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\"> Prerequisite: None<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Content:<br \/> Definition of Demography\/Population Studies, The World Population situation &#8211; population size, distribution and growth, Sources of Population Data, Basic Measures in Demography &#8211; rates and ratios e.g. sex ratio and age dependence ratio, Age and sex composition of a population; The Population Pyramid, Components of Population Change; The Basic Demographic Equation; Fertility Analysis (General Definitions &#8211; Fertility, Fecundity, Reproduction, Basic Measures of Fertility &#8211; Crude birth rate, General Fertility Rate, Age &#8211; specific fertility rate and Total fertility rate, Measures of Reproduction &#8211; Gross reproduction rate, Net reproduction rate, The Bongaarts Framework for Analyzing the Proximate Determinants of Fertility, Determinants of Fertility, Fertility Levels and Trend globally, in Africa, particularly, Sub-Saharan Africa); Mortality Analysis (General definitions &#8211; mortality, expectation of life at birth, Basic Measures of Mortality &#8211; crude death rate, age specific death rate, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, Standardisation of crude death rates &#8211; direct and indirect method, Life Tables &#8211; construction and application to mortality analysis, Determinants of Mortality, Levels and Trends in Mortality globally, Africa and Tanzania in particular); Migration and Urbanization (General definitions &#8211; migration, urbanization, Measures of migration -immigration rate, migration rate and net migration rate, Main features of internal migration in Africa, Determinants of migration, Global patterns of Migration, Measures of Urbanization &#8211; Proportion of population urban, Percentage of population urban, Criteria used in defining urbanization, Impact of migration on urbanization).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RD 203: Introduction to Demography and Population Studies (1 Credit: 30 Lect., 30 Sem, 0 Pract.) 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