Studying socio-economic structures and perceiving their impact on contemporary and future demographic development. The impact of the transformation of socioeconomic structures on economic, social and general social development.

Mastering techniques of analysis, analytical-synthesis interpretation of data and acquisition of applied knowledge from the domain of demographic structures.

Theoretical lectures

Socioeconomic structure of the population - division and sources of data. Methodological problems in research of economic structures. Economic structures according to activity characteristics, demographic analysis. Differences in concepts and factors of formation of labor contingent and workforce. Economic activity of the male population, the activity curve. Economic activity of the female population. Transformation of the activity curve and stages of female economic activities. Economic structure by activity and occupation. Agricultural population. Deagrarization and intersector labor migration. Educational structure of population - analysis, importance for demographic and economic development. Ethnic, confessional and linguistic structure - importance for demographic development. Structure according to marriage, analysis and significance for demographic development.

Practical lectures

Detailed introduction to the sources of data on economic structures. Classification of features and comparability of data. Activity rates, utilization of working contingent. Demographic labor force reserves. Gross and net years of economic activity. Trends of changes in economic structures. Demographic characteristics and analysis of agricultural population. Analysis of the educational structure of the population. Analysis of the marital composition of the population.

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