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 ;
- 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
