SOC 488
Demographic Methods

Credit:  3 or 4 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Quant Reasoning II course.

Introduction to statistical and mathematical procedures in population analysis; the gathering, processing, and evaluating of registration and census data; the life table model; and procedures of mortality and fertility analysis and population projections. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: SOC 380 and either SOC 274 or SOC 270, or consent of instructor.