This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts and analytical techniques of demographic analysis. At the end of the semester students be able to analyze census returns, data from population surveys and civil registers. They will learn to calculate fertility rates, mortality rates, life expectancies at any age, they will be able project the population into the future and to estimate the mid-year population given the necessary data.

Introduction to the basic concepts and analytical techniques of demographic analysis and the use of demographic research. Methods of analysis and interpretation of the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of human populations (size and composition) and of their changes over space and time. Analysis of fertility, mortality, nuptiality and migration. Construction of life tables. Population projections using the cohort-component method. Theoretical models (stable and stationary population).