Feb 06, 2021

Demographic Methods and Population Studies

Assignment for Regular Students

1. Define demography and population studies. Discuss their scope

2. Discuss the importance of demography in health planning
3. Describe the major data sources of demography.
4. Davis and Blake identified a set of 11 intermediate variables which directly affect fertility
which they grouped them into three categories. Describe these three broad categories of
intermediate variables.
5. Group the following factors into proximate and distal determinants of fertility based on
Bongaarts’ proximate determinant of fertility. 
I. Residence,
II. Marriage or being in sexual union,
III. Government population policies
IV. Duration of postpartum infecundability
V. Induced abortion
VI. Access to contraceptives
VII. Availability of child care services
VIII. Sterility

6. Based on data from the following table, calculate and interpret the following indicators:
A. Child, Elderly and Overall Dependency Ratios
B. Sex Ratio 

Age Number
Child (<15 year) 33,191,023
Young (15-64 38,226,099
year)
Elderly (65+ year) 2,333,810
Sex
Male 37,217,130
Female 36,533,802
Total 73,750,932
Source: The 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia

7. The table below shows Bongaarts’ proximate determinants of fertility model parameters
and TFRs in Ethiopia over different periods. Please fill in the missing parameters and
 enter your answer in the table based on other statistics. Assume that total fecundity is
15.3. 

Yea Index of Index of contraception Index of PPI Index of Abortion TFR

r marriage (Cc) (Ci) (Ca)
(Cm)
2000 0.82 0.63 1.00 5.4
2011 0.51 0.91 1.00 4.8
2016 0.50 0.52 0.76 1.00

Use the table above and describe the relative strength of each proximate determinant of fertility
in each year in inhibiting fertility of Ethiopia.

8. Based on data provided in the table below, produce:

A. A life table for the female population 
1. Describe the assumptions you have made to produce the life table
2. Describe the relevance of life table to population health and development
B. Estimate and interpret the life expectancy at birth, at age 15, and at age 50 of women
population in Ethiopia
 Female
Age group
population Death in the 12 months prior census Age specific female death rate
0 876,670 72,371 0.083
1–4 4,432,102 115,434 0.026
5–9 5,869,183 35,486 0.006
10 – 14 4,991,520 16,793 0.003
15 – 19 4,257,684 18,367 0.004
20 – 24 3,279,523 18,232 0.006
25 – 29 3,029,566 17,586 0.006
30 – 34 2,126,690 16,106 0.008
35 – 39 1,945,573 11,826 0.006
40 – 44 1,405,328 9,160 0.007
45 – 49 1,095,400 6,943 0.006
50 – 54 960,545 7,679 0.008
55 – 59 535,828 4,551 0.008
60 – 64 587,080 8,029 0.014
65 – 69 357,975 4,718 0.013
70 – 74 315,541 7,293 0.023
75 – 79 145,713 4,280 0.029
80 – 84 127,100 5,861 0.046
85 – 89 37,970 2,261 0.06
90 – 94 26,164 2,354 0.09
95 + 18,791 1,797 0.096
Source: The 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia
Presentation Topics

1. Produce a review of social determinants of child and adolescent health outcomes and
their inequalities in Ethiopia. [Use research articles published in the years 2000 to 2020]

2. Women play productive and reproductive roles in their society and these roles interact to
affect their health status. Review population and women policies of Ethiopia and
comment on how the policies address the health status and needs of women. 

3. Provide a review of the effects of population growth: on development of a country

(economy, quality of life of population, social and environment conditions).

4. Review Population Policy and Women Policy of Ethiopia and its implication on women’s
health

INSTRUCTION: You need to 

 appropriately format the report
 include all the references consulted in the review process
 limit the outcomes to a maximum of selected three, for example: child
vaccination, nutrition and morbidity could be your health outcomes but not
necessarily these. You can pick your own list of health outcome variables for the
first review