UCL - Seminar in applied demography

[DEMO2230]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Thierry Eggerickx, Ester Lucia Rizzi

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

Apply demographic methods and tools to daily problems of public management, enterprise management or to the study of consumption practices. How can a demographer answer questions asked by local deciders, in spatial or regional planning, etc
What does demography bring to the forecasts and necessary adjustments in community equipment (day-care centers, schools, old people's homes) and of their spatial location?
Applied demography usually focusing on specific "sub-populations" or small area populations, technical and methodological problems (availability of data, small numbers) have to be identified..

Main themes

The topics vary from one year to the other.

- Demography of small populations : aims and methodological problems
- Measuring heterogeneity, concentration and social segregation of space
- Demography as aid to public administration : interactions between social, housing, spatial planning policies
- Demography of business corporations
- Population forecasts for regions, towns and municipalities

A few applications:
- Community and residential housing
- Foreign population, immigrants-foreign origin population, refugees
- School population
- The population of Louvain-la-Neuve : establishing the census of a night population

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

SPED 1211 and DEMO 2150

Individual or group work.

Course text and a portfolio of readings