John Is Interested in Studying Demography

question 69

Multiple Choice

John is interested in studying demography. Which of the following will he spend his time researching?

• A) Environment and society
• B) The past and future composition of populations
• C) The social processes of human engineering
• D) Perspectives on social change

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, giving an estimate of the uncertainty around the main measurement.

Population Proportions

Ratios or fractions that represent parts of a whole for specified groups within a population.

Sample Counts

The actual observed frequencies or totals of occurrences or items in sampled categories or groups.

Sample Proportions

The fraction or percentage of observations within a sample that fall into a particular category, useful for estimating population proportions in inferential statistics.