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Scope And Subject Matter Of Demography

SCOPE AND SUBJECT MATTER OF DEMOGRAPHY

From the definitions we can observe that there were no unanimity of views among the different writers. Those who want to enlarge the scope can be called the Macro demographic group and those who maintain narrow view can be put in the micro demography group.

Macro Demography
Views of Spencer, Vance, Ryder,Lorimer,Moore, etc., fail within the category of macro demography. Under macro demography the writers have studied the causes of slow or rapid grow of birth rate, death rate, population growth, sex ratio and health conditions,etc.
Many economic issues like unemployment, income condition of the masses, standard of living, labour conditions and living standard, production, consumption, saving-habits, correlation between population and economic development are all part of Macro Demography Study
Social problem’ like marital status, composition of the family, growing trend about t caste, religion, education, etc , form part of macro demography. Geography can also be studied with the help of macro demography For example problems of migration, urbanization, etc form part of macro demography.

Micro Demography

According to the narrow view we study demography as small units like individual, family, group etc In fact these units constitute the primary elements of macro analysis For instance if we study the fertility rate of women in Rewa or Bhopal, it forms part of
micro demography. On the other hand, if we study the fertility of women for the whole of India or Madhya Pradesh, and Rewa and Bhopal divisions are included as units of the same, then the study will fall within the macro analysis. According to Prof. Bogue
“Micro Demography is the study of the growth, distribution and redistribution of the population within community, state, economic area or other local area. This included both numerical and composition aspects and is performed by using meaningful subdivision of community of local areas.”