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DSS 301: Demographic Data Evaluation I
Errors in demographic data: Simple methods of appraising demographic data – digit preference and, age-sex ratios, age-sex accuracy index, Whipples, Myers, United Nations indices etc. Adjustment of errors in demographic data: adjustment of census totals for under- or over enumeration, adjustment of age data e.g. Newton’s formula and the United…
DSS302: Measures of Population Change
Measurement of fertility, the crude birth rates, adjusted rates, age-sex standardized rate, fertility rates for order of birth, marital fertility rates, gross and net reproduction rates, child-woman ratio, nuptiality. Measurement of Mortality: crude death rate, standardize “direct and Indirect, measurement of mortality in infancy and childhood. The Life Table: Types,…
DSS 305: Research Methods in Demography
The use of statistical procedures in demographic research. Emphasis is placed on (1) the types of demographic research hypotheses that could be tested by some of the procedures; (i) the suitability of some of the procedures in studying differentials in response or the oral patterns; (ii) the usefulness of some…
DSS 306: Data collection, Analysis and Presentation
Fundamentally, this course will enable students to gain practical experience in the design of data collection instruments, data collection, analysis and report writing. Under the guidance of lecturers, who act as field supervisors, the students are grouped and taken to a community outside the University where they learn the basic…
DSS 307: Labour Force – Theoretical Considerations
Demographic and Economic Factors in Labour Force Size and Growth: The effects of total and age-sex structure of a population, fertility, age-specific activity rates, migration, income, education etc. on the size and growth of the Labour Force. Economic Development and Relative Size of the Labour Force: Levels and trends of…