Demographics - how they affect the local area and influence the services in the areas.

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For this piece of work I am going to be talk about demographics and how they affect the local area and influence the services in the areas. I am going to be writing about all the different types of demographics that I am going to be researching. I will then choose two of them to look at more in depth and then see how they affect the local area and its services e.g. care homes, clubs, charities, jobs and health facilities. This is going to be for my health and social A2 course.

I have found a variety of definitions, which explain what demographics are.  Demographics are a single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths. . This definition is very specific as it outlines two examples of demographics, which are the rate of death and births. By saying the word rate it outlines the fact that demographics are statistical and usually appear in comparison with other demographics e.g. gender, men and women would be compared on the basis of employment for example.  Another definition I have found was a lot more in depth and went into the actual meaning of the word demographic.

Demographics refers to selected population characteristics as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research. Commonly-used demographics include race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. Distributions of values within a demographic variable, and across households, are both of interest, as well as trends over time. Demographics are frequently used in economic and marketing research.

With this definition it gives a example of the possible demographics and what they are used within. It also mentions the local area but fails to say how they affect the local area.

The last definition I found was quite useful as it relates to the local area unlike the others. Demographics means information concerning socioeconomic characteristics pertaining to a geographic unit.

I have used these three examples to make my own definition of what I think demographics are. From the information I have gathered I think demographics are statistics relating to a number of factors, which concern the population e.g.

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  • Age
  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Gender
  • Location
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Marital status
  • Ownership
  • Language
  • Mobility
  • Disability
  • Health
  • Employment
  • Wealth
  • Fertility
  • Life/Death rate

These factors go in trends and change over time depending on location and the status of it.

One demographic I am going to be looking at and relating to my local area is disability. I am going to be looking at how many disabled people there are in my local area (Herne Bay, Canterbury and surrounding counties) and then looking at how they would affect the local area. An definition of disability is A physical ...

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