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Demography - ASG100123
Title: Demografie
Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (21-KSOC)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2017
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3112
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Petra Poncarová (18.05.2023)
A basic course in demography for non-demography majors. The course is thematically focused on understanding basic demographic processes with emphasis on methodological specifics and interdisciplinary nature. Lectures focus on such topics as: sources of demographic data, demography as a scientific discipline, the system of demographic indicators, the main areas of demographic analysis (fertility, birth, marriage, divorce, mortality), families and households and population policy, demographic forecasts and projections, etc. The course includes information on population development and the demographic situation in Czechia. Special attention is paid to understanding the causes and contexts of population development in relation to other social, economic and cultural processes in society.

The course is organized in the form of theoretical lectures and practical exercises, which aim to teach the students to be able to calculate basic demographic indicators. The course includes a presentation of elementary techniques of calculating basic demographic indicators with practical demonstration at computers, so for this reason, user knowledge of MS Excel is a NECESSITY.
Aim of the course -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)

A basic course in demography for non-demography majors. The course is thematically focused on understanding basic demographic processes with emphasis on methodological specifics and interdisciplinary nature. Lectures focus on such topics as: sources of demographic data, demography as a scientific discipline, the system of demographic indicators, the main areas of demographic analysis (fertility, birth, marriage, divorce, mortality), families and households and population policy, demographic forecasts and projections, etc. The course includes information on population growth and the demographic situation in the Czech Republic. Special attention is paid to understanding the causes and contexts of population development in relation to other social, economic and cultural processes in society.
Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D. (14.12.2023)

Study literature:
- Required:
Kalibová K.: Úvod do demografie. Praha, nakl. Karolinum, (skripta), opakovaná vydání 1997 - 2001

- Recommended:
Koschin, F. Demografie poprvé. Praha: Oeconomica, 2005.
Roubíček, V. Úvod do demografie. Praha: Codex Bohemia, 1997.Vandeschrick, Ch.: Demografická analýza, Praha, nakl. Karolinum, 2000
Demografie (nejen) pro demografy. Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON). Praha 2009 - 3. vyd. (2.vyd. 1998)
Pavlík Z., Rychtaříková J., Šubrtová A.: Základy demografie. Academia Praha 1986.
Langhamrová, J., Šimpach, O. Základy demografie (materiály ke cvičením). Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze. Praha: Oeconomica, 2013
Langhamrová, J., Kačerová, E.: Demografie (materiály ke cvičením). VŠE. Praha 2006
Vallin, J.: Světové obyvatelstvo. Praha, Academia, 1992

Factography:
Demografická ročenka ČR (http://www.czso.cz/csu/edicniplan.nsf/select_obyvatelstvo)
Demografická situace České republiky - Proměny a kontexty 1993-2008. Burcin, B., Fialová, L., Rychtaříková, J. a kol., Sociologické nakl., Praha 2010.
Populační vývoj České republiky 2001-2006, 2007. Katedra demografie a geodemografie PřF UK. Praha 2002.též na adrese: http://popin.natur.cuni.cz/html2/index.php
Recent demographic developments in Europe 2004. Council of Europe. 2005.
Teaching methods -
Last update: Mgr. Petra Poncarová (18.05.2023)

Topically focused lectures (see syllabus), graphic demonstrations of the results of the analysis of demographic processes and demographic development in the Czech Republic and the world;
Exercises aimed at mastering basic calculations in the field of demographic analysis using MS Excel; exercises within the lectures will be announced in advance at the previous lecture.

Classes (at least from the beginning of the semester until full-time classes can eventually begin) will be taught online as scheduled. Teaching environment: Google Meet. An email will be sent out to students via SIS prior to the class with a link to the online class. The handouts for the class will be posted on Moodle (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3112), so students must pre-enroll in this course on Moodle. The online class will be taught by lecturing on the topic in the first part, followed by discussion and possible practice assignments in the second part. Towards the end of the tutorial, there will also be space for online individual consultation.
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Course implementation in case of Distance Learning:
Teaching will be conducted online according to the timetable published on the stands of the Department of Sociology.
Online teaching platform: Google Meet
Study materials: Moodle (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3112).

Method of attestation: credit test, form of examination: "written" (at PC) examination consisting of two parts - theoretical part and practical part. It is necessary to fulfill at least 50%.
Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)

Credit test, form of examination: a "written" (PC) examination consisting of two parts - theoretical part and practical part.  It is necessary to fulfill at least 50%.
Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo, Ph.D. (29.09.2023)

Teacher: doc. RNDr. Luděk Šídlo. Luděk Šídlár, Ph.D.
Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2

E-mail: ludek.sidlo@natur.cuni.cz

1. Demography and its position among other scientific disciplines, object and subject of demography, internal division. History of demography. Overview of demographic organisations and institutions.
2. Sources of demographic data (censuses, records of natural change and migration, registers, sample surveys,...), the most important sources of demographic data.
3. System and construction of demographic indicators
4. Display of demographic indicators (demographic network/Lexis diagram).
5. Structure of the population by age and sex. Age pyramid, types of age structures and their characteristics. Other selected population structures (nationality, education, marital status,...)
6. Mortality process and its wider determinants; mortality by age and sex, infant and child mortality. Comparative mortality indicators - methods of standardisation.
7. The "life expectancy" indicator as an output of the mortality table; the meaning of modelling the mortality process - the principle of constructing the mortality table, its use for analysing and forecasting the size and composition of the population. Mortality in international comparison.
8. Classification of diseases and causes of death. Disease and health status of the population, possibilities of assessment.
9. Fertility process - data collection and recording, indicators, broader conditions and linkages. Development of fertility levels in Czechia and international comparison.
10. Abortion process - categories of abortion, development of legislation, basic indicators.
11. Processes of marriage and divorce - demographic, social, cultural, legislative. Basic indicators. Changes in the level of marriage and divorce rates in Czechia and international comparison. Structure of families and households, unmarried cohabitation and other non-traditional ways of cohabitation.
12. General characteristics of demographic reproduction. Importance of migration - possibilities of evaluation, indicators. Population distribution, urbanisation and population concentration - trends, indicators
13. Population forecasts and projections: types of demographic forecasts in terms of time and population covered; methodology, determination of parameters, results. Population forecasts in Czechia, in the world; derived forecasts.
14. World population development - demographic revolution, second demographic transition.
 
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