Seminar in applied demography

ldemo2230  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

Seminar in applied demography
5.00 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Language
French
Main themes
The topics vary from one year to the other:
  • Demography of small populations : aims and methodological problems ;
  • Measuring heterogeneity, concentration and social segregation of space ;
  • Demography as aid to public administration : interactions between social, housing, spatial planning policies …;
  • Demography of business corporations ;
  • Population forecasts for regions, towns and municipalities ;
A few applications:
  • Community and residential housing ;
  • Foreign population, immigrants-foreign origin population, refugees ;
  • School population ;
  • The population of Louvain-la-Neuve : establishing the census of a night population.
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1. apply demographic methods and tools to daily problems of public management, enterprise management or to the study of consumption practices.
 
2. answer questions such as: How can a demographer answer questions asked by local deciders, in spatial or regional planning, etc… What does demography bring to the forecasts and necessary adjustments in community equipment (day-care centers, schools, old people's homes…) and of their spatial location?
 
3. identify technical and methodological problems (availability of data, small numbers…) from the fact that applied demography usually focusing on specific "sub-populations" or small area populations.
 
Evaluation methods
Individual or group work.
Other information
SPED 1211 and DEMO 2150 Course text and a portfolio of readings
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] in Population and Development Studies