Demographic Statistics

  • Credits: 5
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 2
  • Faculty of Economic Informatics

Teachers

Included in study programs

Actuarial Science

Data Science in Economics

Teaching results

At the end of the semester, students gain an overview of demographic approaches and opportunities that help analyze and evaluate the current demographic situation in society.
In particular, students acquire the following abilities:
- Students will be able to correctly interpret and analyze demographic rates. They will acquire skill in the construction of mortality tables and life tables in general.
Students acquire in particular the following skills:
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic knowledge about the principles of demographic data collection, correctly understand the demographic development in society, the migration situation in the country.
Students will acquire the following competencies:
- Acquired knowledge after completing the subject of demographic statistics enabling the student to perform a basic analysis in the field of population statistics and projections of population development.

Indicative content

The content of the course is to master the basic methods of analysis of population development, the use of individual sources of demographic data, the acquisition of demographic terminology, demographic indicators, demographic symbolism. The demographic statics part contains the structure of the population mainly by age and sex, but also other structures such as marital status, religion, etc. The demographic dynamics section analyzes demographic events, their correct interpretation and uses demographic models - mortality, marriage, fertility, divorce, abortion and migration. The course also includes the theoretical basis of the current demographic development.

Support literature

1. KLUFOVÁ, R., POLÁKOVÁ,, Z. : Demografické metody a analýzy: demografie české
a slovenské populace. 1. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2010.308s. ISBN 978-80-7357-546-5
2. KOSCHN, F.: Vybrané demografické modely, 1. vyd. Praha: VŠE, 2002. 51s. ISBN 80-245-0273-9
3. KOSCHN, F.: Kapitoly z ekonomické demografie, 1. vyd. Praha: VŠE, 2005. 52s.
ISBN 80-245-0959-8
4. JURČOVÁ, D.: Slovník demografických pojmov, Bratislava: Edícia Akty, 2005. ISBN 80-85659-40-9
The literature will be continuously updated with the latest scientific and professional titles.

Syllabus

1. Subject, content and structure of demography. Development of demography as a science. 2. Definition of demographic events and demographic phenomena. History of current population records and census. 3. Sources of population data. Census, content and use. 4. Natural movement of the population, its registration and use in demographic analysis. 5. Construction of demographic indicators. Time in demographic analysis and demographic network. 6. Basic structures of the population - by sex and age, other structures. 7. Mortality, mortality intensity indicators. Infant mortality and its decomposition. Standardization mortality. 8. Mortality tables, construction, calculation, use in demography. 9. Marriage and termination of marriages. Wedding tables. 10. Fertility and fertility, fertility rates and reproduction. 11. General characteristics of reproduction. 12. Population estimates and projections of population number and structure. 13. Summary of the lectured subject matter.

Requirements to complete the course

30 % credit written work
70 % final exam

Student workload

Total study load (in hours): 130 hours
Lectures participation: 26 hours
Seminar participation: 26 hours
Preparation for seminars: 13 hours
Preparation for written assignment: 26 hours
Exam preparation: 39 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 11.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 03.02.2022