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How do we get Population data ? (refer to the word: demographics)

Key Question: How do we get Population data ?

• Census every 10 years
• Population is asked about what characteristics ?

Age, Sex, Marital Status, Birthplace, Ethnic background, Education, Occupation

Key Terms:

Population Distribution: "How people are spread out across the globe"

Population Density: "The number of people per unit area - usually people per square kilometre"

http://www.6billionothers.org/index_en.php - New Yann Arthus Bertrand project - nice starter video..

Done by Post - why is that not easy in other countries potentially ?

Why are census details unreliable ?

NORFOLK CENSUS DETAILS

READING LIST BOOKLET - don't write on this ! You will get other sheets which you CAN read on...

What other methods of collecting population data are there ?

Investigate registration and household surveys carried out at intervals between the census.

A3 map of the UK. Adding factors.

What is the global pattern of population distribution ?

Using an atlas describe the global pattern of population distribution - choropleth shading

Name specific areas that have low and high density.

What are the REASONS for the distribution ?

Need to have both PHYSICAL and HUMAN reasons...

Go to the bottom of the page for the NORFOLK CENSUS DATA links.

Also given:

Reading from booklet: POPULATION EQUATION and be aware of factors affecting population growth and migration.

Also read relevant chapters of Waugh textbook (other textbooks are available)

You will be given a BOOKLET and some questions as I am away for this lesson...

This BOOKLET is courtesy of Val Vannet. Thanks for the use of the information (one of those things I nicked from your filing cabinet in October 2006!)

Visit this excellent SCOTTISH website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/geog/population/

I have produced a series of powerpoints which you can download as well.

POPULATION DENSITY & DISTRIBUTION (Powerpoint - complete with image by Spencer Tunick - these images make good STARTER images or backgrounds to Powerpoints as they certainly have a lot of visual impact...)

Need to develop and plot the LORENZ CURVE

If there was 10% of the population on 10% of the land and so on there would be a straight line graph. However, it is not that way.

Sheet needed: plot the cumulative figures for world population and area.

Redraw table from book in ascending order of world population

Plot on Graph Paper and discuss the patterns which are produced.

Discussion of ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM and the way that technology can overcome these...

Have a look at this too:

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/geography/117/Master3/index.htm - nice work by Daryl Sleath

Plus
Read article on Census Data and the value in exploring the changing Housing Market in the UK

Go through the key terms related to population

• Fertility
• Crude Birth Rate (what's crude about it ?)
• Age specific birth rates
• Mortality
• Infant / Child Mortality
• Crude Death Rate / Age Specific death rates

Showed you some sites you MUST visit and use:

Worldmapper, Nationmaster and Gapminder

To help you with GAPMINDER, here's a very useful PDF download which is a worksheet produced by Scottish colleague Val Vannet.

GAPMINDER HELP SHEET (PDF download)

- can you tell how old these people are ?

PAST PAPER QUESTION

Rank Size Rule (January 2004)

Need to do some more reading on this obviously.

Read up on DTM for next lesson...

This the oldest woman - she 43 ! - from Borat movie...

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION MODEL

Need to be able to explain how this model works! This is key to this section.

• How does it change ?
• What limitations does it have ?
• How can we use the diagram ?
• What are the differences in the ways that countries are represented on the diagram ?

We used some FLASH animations from the Welsh NGFL site.

Remember the filetype:swf

Another stream of consciousness set of additions as we went through lots of additions such as:

• Fertility - changes in lifestyles
• Social change - children cleaning chimneys and Mary Poppins
• World Wars

  In 2001 there was a Census: a count of population. Interestingly, just last week, there was a Census test carried out in some parts of the country: Bath and North East Somerset, Camden, Carmarthenshire, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent. You can download some FACT SHEETS on the test from THIS PAGE. Some interesting discussion on SAMPLING here.

Got Smart Notebook ?

Coming soon is the lesson file.

Remember that you need to be able to draw the DTM if necessary, and to be able to label it with the various reasons why the graph changes.

Thanks to  of the SLN Forum for pointing me to this site.

This is a French site, but has an English version - which is nice. See link opposite

Have a play at the Games, such as THE POPULATION and ME.

This will tell you:

• The world population in the year you were born
• How many people were born in the same year as you
• How many are still alive and how many are dead
• How many are older than you and how many are younger than you

Also check out the DATABASE - there are details on a range of indicators for various countries.

http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/

HALF TERM TASKS

Check out some POPULATION CLOCKS

Read GeoFile on Ageing Population in book and other resources on this theme.

Explore issues to do with AGEING POPULATION.

The Census for 2001 showed that for the first time there were more people over the age of 60 than those under 16.

Gambia's population doubles every 28 years !

Infant Mortality - 73 per 1000

Birth Rate - 40 per 1000

Ask for the teachers' notes from the videos.

Population Structure is shown on a POPULATION PYRAMID.

It's important that you appreciate how these are constructed and also how to 'read' them.

Interpretation of shapes of pyramids.

Notes produced in WHITE booklet. Read through this and ensure that you appreciate what the shapes mean.

I will be using Richard Allaway's rather marvellous resource on the Afghanistan refugee crisis. Check this resource out now... (Computer room providing of course...)

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geography/popnresourcesdevelop/ibpopulation/afghanistan_migration.htm

Has PPT introduction and series of instructions with weblinks.

Students can also work through this ONLINE without teacher interventions.

A very useful book in this area has been recently published by Philippe Legrain.

PRO NATAL POLICIES: Germany - started January 2007

ANTI NATAL POLICIES: The most obvious place to start  is the CHINA ONE CHILD POLICY, which is a bit of a misnomer. Students should be familiar with the working of the policy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6211737.stm

How to get over the problems of emerging economies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1223120,00.html - Australia's Prime Minister urges the population to have "one for your country"...

Possible case studies:

• construction of Brasilia to reduce pressure on overcrowded cities in SE Brazil
• rural growth poles e.g. ujamaa villages in Tanzania
• transmigration programs e.g. Indonesia - resettlement to outer islands

(is this still happening ?)

Some countries have put in place measures to prevent migration within the country.

Movement permissions in some socialist economies.

Loads of detail can be found in the pdf of a report from the House of Lords' Select Committee on Economic Affairs in 2003 called "Aspects of the economics of an ageing population" (do a search and download your own copy - it's over 60 pages long...)

Try to produce your own executive summary dealing with:

• the causes
• the impacts
• the pressures that will be created for government to deal with

One real issue is that of age discrimination and also the pension system - there are already concerns about the latter and the age to which people may have to work in the future.

Also check out Richard Allaway's excellent page here:

http://www.geographyalltheway.com/igcse_geography/population_settlement/population/ageing_population.htm

I also like this article from British Medical Journal, on the impression that is given by the images used on the road sign 'warning' of elderly people

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1456

Also read THIS ARTICLE from GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS, written by Simon Oakes:

http://www.geographyinthenews.rgs.org/news/article/?id=298

"Elderly people complain that young people drive too fast, but that's often because they're driving the wrong way up the motorway"

Jeremy Clarkson

Also read this article on the East of England, produced by AGE CONCERN.

www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/Documents/regions_EofE_Demographic_Analysis_310303.pdf

(PDF DOWNLOAD: 300Kb)

By 2051, a quarter of the population will be over 65 !

Life expectancy has risen dramatically in the last 160 years (see DTM for more details on why)

Fertility rate needs to be at 2.08 births per woman to maintain population and it has been below this for some time.

Sex ratio changes in the upper age cohorts as women live longer.

The Black Caribbean sector is the first of the immigrant groups to reach substantial numbers at retirement age.

Aggregate labour supply is lumpy rather than smooth / linear due to baby booms (most recently in the 1960s - which included me thankfully)

Click the image above to go to a page where you can download the UN REPORT on the World's Ageing Population 1950-2050

Issues with TFR (Total Fertility Rate) of 7 (which is coming down due to various campaigns such as the ABC campaign)

What issues does it create for the GAMBIA.

Are LEDCs able to cope with the issues generated by a youthful population.

Related to the DTM (Demographic Transition Model)

How accurate is the DTM ?

Suggest some countries which are representative of the 5 stages of the DTM.

Also handed out a BOOKLET which covered all the key points about the SKILLS work.

FLASH animation (see lesson 5)

What affects Mortality rates ?

Worldmapper.

Malthus: Limits to Growth...

Make sure that you read the section in your GAIA books

A useful Wikipedia article on Malthus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus

and Malthusian catastrophe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe

Boserup: Danish Economist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/

Listen again, or download PODCASTS, but be quick...

 

In 2001 there was a Census: a count of population. Interestingly, in May 2007 there was a Census test carried out in some parts of the country: Bath and North East Somerset, Camden, Carmarthenshire, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent. You can download some FACT SHEETS on the test from THIS PAGE. Some interesting discussion on SAMPLING here. You can also download the 24 page questionnaire. Anyone involved in the trial ?

Why was the Census trial necessary ?
How much does the Census cost ?

Need to be a subscriber.

MOVING HERE website is a useful addition.

BBC Article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6694135.stm

Report by the OPTIMUM POPULATION TRUST

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.release11Jul07.htm

Key points

• Families should limit themselves to 2 children
• Each new UK birth through inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates is responsible for about 160 times more climate related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia
• Wants government to introduce guidance to stop at 2
• Another report earlier said the best value for money way of reducing environmental impact is a condom...
• 669,351 babies were born in the UK last year
• The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in W. Europe
• Most of Britain's annual population rise of nearly 300 000 people is from immigration: only 22% of births were to non-UK born mothers.
• Fertility rate in 1976 was 1.74, and is now up to 1.87

"Voluntary population stabilisation programmes" - how might they work ?

Report talks about a "YOUTHQUAKE": a rise in young people.

Thanks to Simon Oakes for flagging up (don't you just hate that term) THIS YAHOO NEWS story on the use of robots.

Also spotted this story in September 2007 which looked at an intriguing way to increase the birth rate in an area of Russia. Wonder if it worked ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7041825.stm

How about you - would you be saying "I canna take it no more..." after a few weeks ?

Had some taster sessions for Year 11 pupils.

As part of this, I produced 2 resources which can be viewed on my SLIDESHARE page: a JELLY BABY GAME introduction with some great FLICKR images, and a 'Have we got News for You' starter.

http://jellyvision.serioussites.co.uk/

Some Jelly movies as interesting additions to the whole Jelly Baby experience...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/11/the_big_immigration_debate.html

Turkmenistan President offering payments to women who have 8 children.

Illegal immigrants arrested trying to leave the UK.

The estimated full and part-time British population in France 260,000 (how about producing a heads and tails match up with some statistics and seeing whether people spot the match-up easily)

Thanks to Simon Oakes for this - a very useful sheet to suggest the depth that is needed on the case studies. We used this to produce our own case study booklet.

Thanks to Mari for her work on Norwegian Americans's in the 19th-early 20th Century.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/07/france - useful article.

This is an image by Jean Revillard, which has just won 1st Prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories category of the World Press Photo competition.

Image Source

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/world-press-photo-winners/

Could use this as a lesson starter: "Who would live in a house like this ?"

http://www.rezo.ch/galerie/cabane/index.html - another great images, that was featured in the Sunday Times magazine.

WHO WOULD LIVE IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS ?

Could collect images from various sources.