Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts
Texas A&M University
(2019 Fall) SOCI 320 – Demographic Methods
– Course information
Meeting location: Harrington Education Center Classroom Building (HECC) 201, campus map
Meeting times: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:45–2pm
– Instructor information
Ernesto F. L. Amaral
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Office location: Academic Building 415, campus map
Office hours: Wednesday, 1:30–3:30pm; and by appointment. Appointment requests must be made at least 72 hours in advance.
Phone: (979)845–9706
Email: amaral@tamu.edu
– Link for course evaluation
Personalized Instructor/Course Appraisal System (PICA)
– Lectures, exams, and other materials
Day 01 – August 27, 2019 – Tuesday
Syllabus & Introduction
Lecture (extra)
Day 02 – August 29, 2019 – Thursday
Assignment has to be submitted on eCampus
Bonus assignment 1
Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)
Don't Panic: Hans Rosling Showing The Facts About Population
The Population Bomb? – by Retro Report – The New York Times
7 Billion and Counting – Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Human Population Through Time – American Museum of Natural History
Demographic Transition Model Song – D Sims
Population Age Structure – Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Break It Down – The Pop Song – Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Day 03 – September 3, 2019 – Tuesday
Day 04 – September 5, 2019 – Thursday
Exponential growth
Lecture (chapter 1)
Population growth rate (in Excel)
Day 05 – September 10, 2019 – Tuesday
Day 06 – September 12, 2019 – Thursday
Periods and cohorts
Lecture (chapter 2)
Person-years, rates, probabilities (in Excel and PDF)
Lexis diagram and other packages in R
Day 07 – September 17, 2019 – Tuesday
Work on assignment 1 in the classroom. Assignment has to be submitted on eCampus.
Assignment 1
Download Microsoft Office free at Texas A&M
Examples of questions answered by professor
Day 08 – September 19, 2019 – Thursday
Day 09 – September 24, 2019 – Tuesday
Day 10 – September 26, 2019 – Thursday
Cohort mortality
Lecture (chapter 3)
Day 11 – October 1, 2019 – Tuesday
Day 12 – October 3, 2019 – Thursday
Day 13 – October 8, 2019 – Tuesday
Cohort fertility
Lecture (chapter 4)
Day 14 – October 10, 2019 – Thursday
Work on assignment 2 in the classroom. Assignment has to be submitted on eCampus.
Assignment 2
Download Microsoft Office free at Texas A&M
Day 15 – October 15, 2019 – Tuesday
Day 16 – October 17, 2019 – Thursday
Day 19 – October 29, 2019 – Tuesday
Population projection
Lecture (chapter 5)
Day 17 – October 22, 2019 – Tuesday
Work on assignment 2 in the classroom
Day 18 – October 24, 2019 – Thursday
Work on assignment 2
Day 20 – October 31, 2019 – Thursday
Day 21 – November 05, 2019 – Tuesday
Day 22 – November 07, 2019 – Thursday
Period fertility
Lecture (chapter 6)
Example of fertility rates (in Excel)
Day 23 – November 12, 2019 – Tuesday
Age pyramids
Lecture (chapter 10.1)
Examples of age-sex structure and other indicators (in Excel)
Day 24 – November 14, 2019 – Thursday
Day 25 – November 19, 2019 – Tuesday
Work on assignment 3 in the classroom. Assignment has to be submitted on eCampus.
Assignment 3
Download Microsoft Office free at Texas A&M
Day 26 – November 21, 2019 – Thursday
Day 27 – November 26, 2019 – Tuesday
Period mortality
Lecture (chapter 7)
Example of standardization (in Excel)
Example of life table (in Excel)
MortPak – The United Nations Software Package for Mortality Measurement
Site
November 28, 2019 – Thursday
Thanksgiving, no class
Day 28 – December 3, 2019 – Tuesday
Work on assignment 4 in the classroom. Assignment has to be submitted on eCampus.
Assignment 4
Download Microsoft Office free at Texas A&M
Day 29 – December 11, 2019 – Wednesday, 8–10am
Students should bring a 8.5"x11" Scantron testing form to the exam. Mark your responses on the Scantron testing form. Only No.2 pencils can be used to bubble in answers (not ink). These are the exam rules.
Final exam
– Extra
Migration and location
GeoDa: An introduction to spatial data analysis
Site
TableCurve 2D: Automated curve fitting analysis
Site
Examples of modeling migration rates
TableCurve2D by Prof. James Raymer
In SPSS
In Excel
– U.S. Census Bureau
Census Bureau
Official website
Site
American Community Survey (ACS)
Official website
Site
American Community Survey (ACS)
Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
Site
American FactFinder
Site
Current Population Survey (CPS)
Site
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
Site
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program
Site
Migration/Geographic Mobility
Site
County-to-County Migration Flows
Site
Census Flows Mapper
Site
TIGER/Line Shapefiles
Site
Demographic Analysis and Population Projection System (DAPPS)
Site
Quick Facts about the United States
Site
– Demographic resources
Family Inequality
Demographic facts your students should know cold in 2018
Site
Population: A lively introduction
Joseph A. McFalls – Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Site
Population
Science special issue
Site
Material
Population Connection
America's Voice for Population Stabilization
Site
Rob J. Hyndman – Monash University, Australia
Demography: Forecasting mortality, fertility, migration and population data
R package
Site
Coherent population forecasting using R
Site
Applied Demography Toolbox
Department of Demography
University of California Berkeley
Site
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Minnesota Population Center (MPC)
University of Minnesota
Site
United Nations Manuals
Techniques for Demographic Estimation
Material
Population Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
Site
Population.io
The World Population Project
Site
The Pudding - Human Terrain
World's Population in 3D
Data from the Global Human Settlement Layer
Site
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Site
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Data
Site
Population and Poverty Research Network (PopPov)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Site
European Social Survey (ESS)
Site
Eurostat - Your Key to European Statistics
Site
– Mortality data sources
The Human Mortality Database
Site
Latin American Human Mortality Database
Site
– Fertility data sources
The Human Fertility Database
Site
Human Fertility Collection
Site
European Fertility Project
Office of Population Research (OPR)
Princeton University
Site
– Migration data sources
World Migration Map
Site
Foreign-Born Population: A Nation of Overlapping Diasporas
Digital Scholarship Lab
University of Richmond
Site
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Site
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Tool to generate graphs of countries of birth for U.S. immigrants, 1960-Present
Site
Mexican Migration Project (MPP)
Princeton University & University of Guadalajara
Site
Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS)
Iberoamerican University (UIA)
Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)
Duke University
Site
The New Immigrant Survey
Princeton University
Site
Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX)
Site
– Resources about refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Site
Syria Regional Refugee Response
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Site
Syrian Refugees - A Snapshot of the Crisis
Site
Asylum Quarterly Report
Eurostat Statistics Explained
Site
REACH - Informing more Effective Humanitarian Action
Site
– Other microdata and surveys
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Site
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Site
American Life Panel
RAND Corporation
Site
World Values Survey
Site
Latinobarómetro: Opinion Pública Lationamericana
Site
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
Site
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
Site
– Aggregated-level data
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact-based worldview
Site
Videos
World Bank Data
Site
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Data
Site
World Wealth & Income Database
Site
Opportunity Insights
Site
National Vital Statistics System
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Site
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Data Visualizations
Site
Pew Research Center Data
Site
Global Attitudes & Trends
Pew Research Center
Site
OXFAM - The Power of People Against Poverty
Site
Doctors without Borders
Site
Brookings Institute
Site
– Academic associations
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Site
Population Association of America (PAA)
Site
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Site
American Marketing Association
Site
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
Site
– Sources for literature review
Web of Science
Scientific citation indexing service
Site
JSTOR (Journal Storage)
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources
Site
American Journal of Sociology
Site
American Sociological Review
Site
Annual Review of Sociology
Site
Science Direct
Source for scientific, technical, and medical research
Site
PubMed
Citations for biomedical literature, life science journals, and online books
Site
– Resources to write about numbers
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Manuscript formatting (American Sociological Association – ASA style)
Site
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Writing with statistics
Site
Examples of tables and figures
PDF file
– Stata Resources
Instructions for Accessing Stata Through the Virtual Open Access Lab (VOAL) at Texas A&M University
VOAL Instructions
Stata: Data Analysis and Statistical Software
Resource links
Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Stata material
Carolina Population Center (CPC)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
Introduction to Stata
Generalized Linear Latent And Mixed Models (GLLAMM)
Stata Programs for estimating, predicting, simulating
Stata extra modules
Material
– Public-opinion polls
RealClearPolitics
Political news and polling data aggregator
Site
FiveThirtyEight
Statistical analysis about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and culture
Site
– Resources for migration syllabus
Migration and Citizenship Syllabus Bank
American Political Science Association
Site
Immigration Syllabus
Created by immigration historians affiliated with the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Site
Syllabus in pdf
