Seminar in applied demography [ LDEMO2230 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
1q
| Teacher(s) |
Eggerickx Thierry ;
Rizzi Ester Lucia (coordinator) ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| 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
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| 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..
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| Other information |
SPED 1211 and DEMO 2150
Individual or group work.
Course text and a portfolio of readings
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Population and Development Studies
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> PSAD
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