Title:	Concepts, Methods and Practical Applications in Applied Demography
Authors:	Richard K. Thomas
Keywords:	Concepts, Methods
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This Chapter presents an overview of the field of demography and the place of applied demography within the broader context. It traces the development of applied demography as a sub-discipline and reviews the factors that have created growing interest in and demand for the application of demographic concepts, techniques and data inside and outside of academia. Demography” comes from the Greek and means “describing people”—“demo” for people and “graphy” to write about a particular topic. Also referred to as population studies demography seeks to analyze human populations and profile them in terms of their salient characteristics and the dynamic processes that influence these characteristics. Demography as a distinct field of study has a relatively short history. The term “demography” was coined in 1855 by Achille Guillard (2010) when he published Elements de Statistique Humaine ou Demographie Comparee. He combined the Greek words demos and graphein to create the discipline’s name. To Guillard, the focus of demography was the mathematical knowledge of populations, their general movements, and their physical, civil, intellectual and moral state. His interest in population size and distribution, demographic processes and population structure of a population foretold modern demography.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55173
ISBN:	978-3-319-65439-3
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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