306358 (v.1) Social Work 665 - Social Demography
| Area: | Department of Social Work and Social Policy |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
| Seminar: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | Introduction to the process of population change - determinants of population change at a community level, population pyramids, Australian Bureau of Statistics data sources and their use, some common methods of analysing socio-economic-demographic data, construction of community profiles, assessment of community needs, and relationship between community needs and its socio-economic-demographic profile. |
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| Unit Outcomes: | On completion of this unit a student should have an elementary knowledge about the processes of a population change at a community level. Skills in extracting information from various sources to construct a community profile for a sub-group of a population. Knowledge about what should constitute a profile in relation to the practice focus. How to investigate community. Skills in developing resource file. |
| Unit Texts: | Adibi, Hossein, 1996, Demographic analysis of Muslim population in Australia, School of Social Sciences, Queensland University of Technology. Andrews, Kevin, James, 1998, Changing Australia: social, cultural and economic trends shaping the nation, Leichhardt, NSW, Federation Press. Alvardo, Jose', 1998, Population aging, migration and social expenditure, Cheltenham, U.K. Caselli, Graziella and Alan. D. Lopez(eds), 1996, Health and mortality among elderly, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Rappaport and Sylvester J. Scheiber, 1993, Demography and Retirement: The Twenty-First Century, Westport, Cann,:prageger. Shryock Nenry S., Siegel, Jacob and associates, The Methods and Material of Demography, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census. |
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Current as of: February 2, 2004
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