The Age-Band Profile: Counts, Shares, the Median Band and the 65+ Share
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In this lesson
You turn the population counts of a fictional district into shares and cumulative shares by five-year age band, find the band that holds the median resident, measure the 65+ share and draw the age profile.
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Lessons in this course
- The Age-Band Profile: Counts, Shares, the Median Band and the 65+ Share Locked
- Crude Rates per 1,000: Births, Deaths, Natural Increase and Net Migration Locked
- Components of Change: the Balancing Equation, Residuals and Where Growth Comes From Locked
- Cohort Projection, Step 1: Moving Every Band Forward Five Years with Survival Ratios Locked
- Cohort Projection, Step 2: Births from Fictional Rates and Net Migration by Band Locked
- Ten- and Twenty-Year Projections: Repeating the Step, Following a Cohort, Measuring Ageing Locked
- Dependency Ratios & Service Demand: Young and Old Ratios, School-Age Counts and Classes Needed Locked
- Scenario Dashboard: Low, Central and High Migration Compared in a Table and a Chart Locked