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5th SOC Unit 3 Population

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  • What is demography?
    the study of population and its changes
  • What does the municipal register show?
    the number of people in a municipality
  • What is the birth rate?
    the number of babies born in a year
  • What data does the civil register show?
    births, deaths and marriages
  • What does the census show?
    the people who live in a country
  • How do we calculate population density?
    we divide the number of inhabitants by the km²
  • What are the three important sources we use to study population?
    municipal register, civil register, and the census
  • Is Elisabeth an emigrant or an immigrant in Spain?
    an immigrant from the United States
  • Who are immigrants?
    people who come to a country from another one
  • What are four variables for measuring population?
    birth rate, death rate, emigration, immigration
  • When does the municipal register happen?
    every year
  • When does the census happen?
    every ten years
  • What parts of Spain are sparsely populated?
    the Northern and Southern plateaus
  • When does the civil register happen?
    continually updated
  • Who are emigrants?
    people who leave a country to live in another one
  • What is the number of people who die in a year?
    death rate
  • What is real increase?
    natural increase plus immigrants and minus emigrants
  • What does the civil register show?
    information about the people registered in a place
  • What is population?
    the amount of people who live in a place
  • What parts of Spain are densely populated?
    coastal areas, Madrid, and the archipelagos
  • What is the difference between birth and death rate?
    natural increase