DCP 70200
Methods Demographic Analysis · 3 credits · Fall 2026
Requirements
EXCL Non-Matric: Open to any student in a degree-seeking program at the Grad Center
About this course
Methods of Demographic Analysis - This course gives students an overview of some of the major demographic methods used in the study of population, and includes the standard procedures for the measurement of fertility, mortality, natural increase, migration, and nuptiality. Students will learn how to compute demographic rates, construct life tables, and implement population projections, and how to carry out standardization, decomposition of differences, the analysis of fertility and nuptiality patterns, analysis invoking model life tables and stable population theory, and analysis of nonstable populations. Anyone examining demographic data from various sources can find the sheer quantity of data daunting. Further, often we have strong reason to believe that data are of less than adequate quality and would be misled by taking them at face value. This course will allow the student to "make sense" of the data and infer accurately the trends and patterns in demographic phenomena that may not be obvious without the application of the methods learned in this class.
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