Demography is the statistical study of populations and their characteristics, such as births, deaths, migrations, consequences of changes, etc.
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Measuring change of participation level in a population after a policy change
I would like to measure the change of a policy in a community, that is, check
whether there was a change after the new policy was applied. The old policy
required that people had to give away a right ...
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Residual from Functional Demographic model for fertility
I'm trying to fit a functional demographic model (fdm) to fertility rates using the demography package in R. When I've plotted ...
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Measuring representativeness of a (non-random) selection
I am looking for a numerical value that expresses how representative a (non-random in this case) sample from a population is regarding the distribution of a certain attribute.
Take for example, the ...
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Estimating demographics from internet activity
I'm looking for research papers on estimating demographic information (age, wealth, location, gender etc.) out of internet activities (preferably social network activity or browser history).
Where ...
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What statistical measures are recommended for mixing of population samples?
I want to know what statistics should be used to measure the mixing of languages in cities in a country/state. I have samples from individuals and know the language they speak and the city they live ...
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How to help people understand “…per 100,000”?
It's well known that members of the public have difficulty comprehending numbers over a certain size. A common tricky issue for people communicating demographic trends is helping people make sense of ...
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Calculating life expectancy in Stata
I've been looking for resources on calculation of life expectancy uising Stata.
Combing Google results so far I've only been able to locate this module:
LXPCT_2: Stata module to calculate ...
