Population

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Population
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Why do we study population?

• the increasing population is the most serious
  issue facing the world
• in order to fully understand a nation, region,
  province, city, etc. one must have an
  understanding of the characteristics of the human
  population in that area

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• Who Studies Population?
• Demographers
• What do they want to know?
• How many? Where can this information be found?
• How is population changing?
• How quickly is this population change?
• What are the characteristics and composition of
  this population?
• How is the population distributed?
• What implication do these factors have for the
  future?

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• How do they get the information?
• Censuses a collection of data about a
  population
• started in early Roman times
• Doomsday Book England 1066 one of the best
  known modern tallies of population
• collected through enumerators that go
  door-to-door (LDCs), or deliver censuses that
  are to be mailed back to the government (Canada)

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• What kind of information is collected?
• population gender
• religion age
• nationality occupation
• language home ownership
• education marital status
• household income possessions

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• Inaccuracies with data collection
• Homelessness
• Fear of entering slums and crime-ridden areas
• Isolation
• Confusion
• Privacy Issues
• Reputation
• Interpretation of questions and data

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• Problems that result from inaccuracies
• Unfair political representation
• Unfair levels of funding
• Lack of funding for homeless people
• Product Failure
• Faulty economic policies
• Difficulty in comparing nations

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• How often do we conduct a census?
• Frequency of censuses varies depending on the
  nation and their resources. It is very expensive
  to conduct a census and it requires a lot of
  people to collect the data.
• In Canada every 5 years
• The Canadian government employs 4000 (Stats
  Canada), 500 work in the census department.
• Canada hires 50,000 people on short-term
  contracts in a census year to work as enumerators.

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