| CODE | SOR1250 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Official Statistics and Demography | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Statistics and Operations Research | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | OFFICIAL STATISTICS National Official Statistics , Statistics and Media Population, Education, Culture and CIT Labour Statistics, Business Statistics Government Finance, National Accounts and Balance of payments Prices International Trade Tourism, Transport and Agriculture Statistics Social Statistics Environment, Housing, Health DEMOGRAPHY Population Size, Composition and Distribution Mortality Fertility Nuptiality Migration Household and Family Formation Population and Households Projections Multiregional Demography Sources of Demographic Data and Software Suggested texts: NSO Publications EUROSTAT Publications OECD Publications UN Publications ETC Publications Web-sites Shroyk and Siegel (1978 ) The Methods and Materials of Demography, Academic, condensed version Newell, C. (1988) Methods and Models in Demography, Belhaven Press, London Palmore and Gardner (1989) Measuring Mortality, Fertility and Natural Increase, East-West Population Institute, East-West Center. Bogue, A. and Anderton eds. (1993) Readings in Population Research Methodology, Vol 1-6 (only) UN Population Fund Arriaga, E. (1994) Population Analysis with Microcomputers, Vol 1, Bureau of the Census, USAID, UNFPA Hinde, A. (1999) Demographic Methods, Arnold, London Preston, S., Heuveline, P. and Guillot, M. (2000) Demography, Blackwell Publishers |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualification: Ordinary Level Mathematics | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Lara Emma Montebello Silvan Zammit |
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