Bevölkerungsstudie
Bevölkerungsstudie is a research project or survey that investigates the characteristics, size, structure and change of a human population. In demography, such studies aim to describe the composition of a population at a given time and to analyze how it evolves due to births, deaths and migration. A Bevölkerungsstudie may be cross-sectional, tracking a snapshot, or longitudinal, following the same individuals over time, and it can rely on censuses, sample surveys, administrative registers or a combination thereof.
Common variables include population size, age and sex structure, fertility, mortality, life expectancy, migration, urban-rural distribution,
Applications of Bevölkerungsstudien include government planning, social policy, health care, housing, labor markets, market research and
Methods and data sources vary and may involve national statistical offices, international organizations such as the
Challenges facing Bevölkerungsstudien include privacy and data protection, nonresponse bias, sampling error, measurement differences, data harmonization
See also: Demography, Census, Population pyramid, Life table, Migration.