Seminar in applied demography

Teacher(s)

Eggerickx Thierry; Gourbin Catherine;

Language

French

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

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	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

Faculty or entity

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