STA 422 covers 26 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study
sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked
answers for each one.
Infant, neonatal, post-neonatal and maternal mortality
Mortality differentials and demographic transition
Life tables and their construction
Life table functions and survival ratios
Model life tables for estimation and projection
Reproductivity measures
Migration concepts and rates
Net migration estimation methods
Population growth rates and projections
Population growth models
Demographic estimation from incomplete data
Prospective and retrospective demographic surveys
A sample from this course
One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.
Evaluation of demographic data
Students must master how to assess the quality, reliability and validity of demographic data before using it for analysis. Understanding sampling methods, sources of bias, and the limits of extrapolation ensures that conclusions drawn from population statistics are sound and defensible in exams.
What you get for STA 422
Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.