Statistic Methods for Social Science: social data measures (2010/2011)

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Course code
4S00830
Name of lecturer
Franco Bressan
Coordinator
Franco Bressan
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Academic sector
SECS-S/05 - SOCIAL STATISTICS
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
Sem. 2A dal Feb 21, 2011 al Apr 10, 2011.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

This program is placed in the specialistic degree of social service needs the previous knowledge of “Statistic Methods for the social sciences: descriptive analysis”. It takes the movements and finds important sprout from the demography, proposing itself to explore the principal determinants of the development of a human population both from a quantitative point of view, and from that more exquisitely qualitative. The knowledge of the population is at the base of whatever rational intervention in economic, political or social nature and surely a good close examination of the environment in which we live allows: For these reasons we believe that the demographic base helps the student, also in the few hours when the course develops him, to appreciate the functionality of the economic and political interventions, proposed by other disciplines. The analysis of more problem (we can call it socio-metrics) completes this cognitive run in a national or international dynamics.

Syllabus

-Idea of demography
-Connection between socio-graphics and demography
-Evolution of the population and formality of measure
-Demographic sources
-The census of the Italian population
-Quality of the census data
-The structure of the population: representation through the pyramid of the ages
-Triangular representation
-More salient demographic indexes
-Birth-rate. Generic and specific quotients of birth-rate and fertility
-Mortality. Quotients. Scheme of the Lexis. Tables of mortality
-Childish mortality
-Childish mortality according to the scheme of Bourgeois Pichat
-Marriages and formality of measurement
-Migrations
-The demographic forecasts. Signs

Texts for the examination
- Massimo LIVI BACCI, Introduzione alla demografia Loescher. TO. 1981
- Francesco DELVECCHIO, "Statistica per le scienze Sociali" Cacucci Editore - BA 2004

Assessment methods and criteria

The examination is structurally type oral; on application of the students he/she can be anticipated however a written test. The vote reached in the written test will be confirmed or integrated by a possible oral.

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