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290156 VO+UE Advanced Methods of Demography (2006W)

Advanced Methods of Demography, Part 2

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie

Continuous assessment of course work

Mo 9:00-10:30 Hs 5A d. Inst.; Beginn: 9.10.2006

Details

Language: German

Lecturers

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

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Aims, contents and method of the course

After a brief review of the life table concept, multiple decrement life tables and multi-state population projections will be introduced. In the second part of the lecture simple concepts of duration analysis will be discussed and applied to various demographic processes. The third part of the lecture deals with the evaluation of data quality in demography and indirect estimations.
Parallel to these topics, recent publications related to these topics will be discussed in exercises.

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(Ta2, Ta11) (Td-S2-II.5)

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