write down the defferent formal and social demography
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Explanation:
Demography is derived from two Greek words- demos which means people and graphein which means describe. So basically demography means description of people. Demography relies on study of data.
The part of demography that deals with quantitative aspect i.e., measurement and analysis of components of population change is called formal demography . For this it has a highly developed mathematical methods for forecasting population growth and changes in the composition of population.
Social demography or Population studies on the other hand, enquires into the wider causes and consequences of population structure & change. Social demographers believe that social processes and structure regulate demographic processes.
Explanation:
Formal demography simply refers to a mathematical study of such vital events as birth, death, migration, marriage and divorce. Social demography refers to a study of relationship between demographic phenomena on the one hand and social and economic phenomena on the other.