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Demography Statistical Word Meaning Writing Demographics Di'mɔgrəfi N.人口统计学

英语单词 demography
英美音标 [di'mɔgrəfi]
中文释义 n.人口统计学
vocab简明 Do you know the population growth rate of your city? The education levels of everyone on your block? Then you're a fan of demography, the branch of sociology that studies human behavior by analyzing statistical information.
vocab扩展 The word demography comes from two ancient Greek words, demos, meaning "the people," and graphy, meaning "writing about or recoding something" — so literally demography means "writing about the people." Like many branches of the sciences, demography began in the 19th century, when the general craze for cataloging information about the world really took off (think Darwin.) A common related word is demographics, referring to the raw statistical data that's used for analysis.
真题原句 Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent – and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance – have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]人口学;人口统计学 Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
    demographer
    • ...a politically astute economist and demographer.

      有着敏锐政治头脑的经济学家和人口学家

    来源 2007.3

    Tags: 单词::2007

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