LAB 5 2024 - POPULATION PYRAMIDS SHAPE AND COHORT ANALYSIS

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1TMU Department of Geography & Environmental Studies 1EUS 401 PATTERNS OF DEMOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT WINTER 2024 Lab #5: Population Pyramid Shape and Cohort Analysis. Worth 5% of course grade. Background: The purpose of this lab is to use the same countries you chose in Lab#2 and (1) examine their age structure using population pyramids, and (2) trace a single cohort throughout its lifetime from 2023 to 2100. You will be using a different simulator than the one you used in previous labs because this one proportionalizes the population pyramid data and thus makes all countries directly comparable to each other. We looked at how this simulator worked during the first tutorial. The simulator is at: https://www.populationpyramid.net/ . Nota bene: Answer on the template below and submit to D2L as a PDF. What to do: In this lab, you will be continuing your analysis and comparison of your two countries. Go to the simulator above. It should open to a default of the World’s population pyramid in 2023. Do the following: 1. Select the first of your countries from the drop-down list. 2. Copy the population pyramid figure that pops up using the snip tool, paste it into your answer sheet, reduce its size and format it “in line with text” so that you can get two figures side-by-side. I will show you how to do this in lab. Be sure to copy a large enough area to include the country’s name and population. Note that the horizontal axis is scaled in percentage. This will make every pyramid the simulator generates comparable. However, it will no longer show the absolute size of their populations. 3. Hover your cursor on the 0–4-year-old cohort bar and make a note the counts in the table below. Move the cursor off the cohort and make a note of the male and female population proportions in the table as well. 4. Using the +5- and +1-YEAR increments again, step the year forward to 2100. Make note of what happens to the pyramid’s shape, especially watch the 0-4 cohort bar as it moves through life to become the 80-84-year-old cohort. Collect the same population data for this cohort. You now have data on the same cohort in 2023 and 2100. 5. When you reach 2100, copy and paste the resulting pyramid into your answer sheet, again with name and total national population included. 6. Go to Lab #2, collect the median age there, and paste it into the table below. 7. Repeat steps 2 to 6 for your second country. 8. When you have all the data from the simulator, answer the questions on the template below.
1EUS 401 PATTERNS OF DEMOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT WINTER 2024 Lab #4: Population Pyramids: Student Response Template. NAME:____________________________________ Student #: ____________________ Table 1: Tracing A Single Age-Sex Cohort Through Its Lifetime Country Pair 2023, 0- to 4-year-old Cohort 2100, 80- to 84-year-old Cohort Males 0-4 % Females 0-4 % Median Age Males 80-84 % Females 80-84 % Median Age Country 1 975,007 2.5 926,960 2.4 1,314,743 2.4 1,380,559 2.6 Country 2 Questions (point form answers): It is expected that you will use what you have learned from the lectures to date about pertinent concepts and relationships between the variables used above to answer these questions. 1. Which of the basic shapes would you say each pyramid has? 2. How do the DT models and pyramids compare? 3. What are the most significant differences between the pyramids for your country pair? Note that differences can be about the scale and numeric magnitude of the data, possible cultural or social and economic influences, etc. 4. What fates await your countries? PASTE IN YOUR GRAPHS BELOW
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