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Population Forecasts - MD360P09
Title: Populační prognózy
Czech title: Populační prognózy
Guaranteed by: Department of Demography and Geodemography (31-360)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:combined
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Level: basic
Is provided by: MD360P89
Explanation: nahrazuje MD360P89
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: RNDr. Tomáš Kučera, CSc.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Boris Burcin, Ph.D.
RNDr. Tomáš Kučera, CSc.
Is incompatible with: MD360P89
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Annotation -
Last update: RNDr. Tomáš Kučera, CSc. (29.10.2019)
The course provides students with a basic understanding of methodological and practical issues of population forecasting. The main attention belongs to the principles of forecasting to teach students how to interpret and apply the results of population forecasts. The theoretical and methodological basis of forecasting and specificities of population development forecasting represents a basic content of the course lectures. Detailed excursion into forecasting terminology, classification of population forecasts and population forecasts making proceed these core lectures. This module presents population forecasting as a systematic and at the same time continuous process, following a set of international recommendations. Phasing of the forecasting process, and content and significance of individual forecasting stages form the basic program axis of the course. Further, partial methods of population system identification, description and analysis, construction of projection model and forecasting its parameters, projection calculations, presentation of results and monitoring and forecasting become a subject of discussion. Students also learn about the main trends in population forecasting methodological developments, the practice of official population forecasts in selected countries, the social and political context of this activity, and the population perspectives of the Czech Republic and the world.
Literature -
Last update: RNDr. Barbora Janáková Kuprová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

Recommended literature:

Lutz, W., J. W. Vaupel, D. A. Ahlburg (1998): Frontiers of Population Forecasting. A Supplement to Population and Development Review, 1998, 24.

Keilman, N. W. (1990): Uncertanity in National Population Forecasting: Issues, Backgrounds, Analyses, Recommendations. NIDI Working Paper. Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse 1990.

Keilman, N. W. a T. Kučera. The Impact of Forecasting Methodology on the Accuracy of National

Population Forecasts: Evidence from the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia. Journal of Forecasting, 1991, 10, 371-398.

Keyfitz, N. How Demographers Know the Present and Forecast the Future. Paper presented at the IUSSP Conference "Population Science in the Service of Mankind". Vienna 1979.

Keyfitz, N. The Limits of Population Forecasting. Population and Development Review, 1981, 7, 579-593.

Keyfitz, N. The Social and Political Context of Population Forecasting. IIASA Working Paper WP-84-003. IIASA, Laxenburg 1984.

Kučera, T. Regionální populační prognózy: teorie a praxe prognózování vývoje lidských zdrojů v území. Disertační práce. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Praha 1998.

Pavlík, Z., J. Rychtaříková a A. Šubrtová: Základy demografie. Academia, Praha 1986.

Rogers, A. Multiregional Demography: Principles, Methods and Extensions. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1995.

Smith S. K., J. T. David and A. Swanson. A Practitioner’s Guide to State and Local Population Projections. Springer, Heidelberg 2013.

Ter Heide, H. a F. J. Willekens, eds. Demographic Research and Spatial Policy: the Dutch Experience. Academic Press, London 1984.

Readings in Population Research Methodology: Volume 5 Population Models, Projections and Estimates (Chapter 17 Population Projections: Age-Sex-Race/Ethnicity). UNFPA, New York 1993.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: RNDr. Barbora Janáková Kuprová, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)

Credit: prescribed and active participation in lessons, elaboration of assigned tasks, quality elaboration and presentation of assigned topic.

Examination: level of oral examination (obtaining credit is a condition for admission to the exam).

Syllabus -
Last update: RNDr. Barbora Janáková Kuprová, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)

Sylabus is available ic Czech.

Entry requirements -
Last update: RNDr. Barbora Janáková Kuprová, Ph.D. (23.12.2019)

Knowledge of Demographic Analysis I and Demographic Analysis II are required for successful completion of the course.

 
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