FINAL THREAD: INFO FOR ASPIRING DEMOGRAPHERS
We are about to conclude, here are parting shots for those aspiring to become demographers
There are now several undergraduate and postgraduate demography programmes at universities in Zimbabwe, notably UZ (may God bless this university!) and Great Zimbabwe University, all thanks to the bold steps taken by UNFPA and govt in the mid-1990's 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You don't necessarily need to ready demography at undergraduate to become a demographer. You can ready many other degrees; Social Work, Sociology, Developmental studies, Economics, Statistics, Physcology, health sciences, Pure Sciences, etc
You need a good background in maths of course; Demography has 2 major sections, one of it is technical demography which deals with methods, methods, techniques and measures used in demographic estimation and analysis, which requires maths & statistics👇🏾
uaps2015.princeton.edu/papers/151062#….
The second part of demography is called substantive demography and provides tools to examine the interactions of demographic, social, economic, and environmental, political and cultural processes on which the entire human population operates.
Substantive demography includes the study of development planning and policy issues as they relate to human population.
The focus of demography is to give skills in the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations
Besides employment opportunities in research, demographers are employment in, National Statistics Offices for Census and social statistics, marketing, govt planning departments, in health, insurance companies, wherever there is need to make population estimates and projections
If you want a profession with flexibility to shape who you want to be, then try demography🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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