- Knowledge and understanding of basic problems, terms, and measures of demography and its data sources (k1,k2)
- Applying life table methods to calculate individual columns and interpret the complete life table (k2,k3)
- Critical comparison of demographic rates in different populations by applying age standardization, incl. the choice of an appropriate method and standard (k3,k4,k5)
- Relate demographic period and cohort phenomena to their representation in the Lexis diagram (k2,k3,k4)
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- Demographic balance equation
- Demographic Transition theory
- Population pyramids
- Types of demographic rates; person-years
- Direct and indirect age standardization
- Fertility and mortality measures
- Period and cohort perspectives in the Lexis diagram; synthetic cohorts
- Life tables
- Stationary and stable population models
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