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In demography
Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
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, a Lexis diagram (named after economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis) is a two-dimensional diagram used to represent events (such as births or deaths) that occur to individuals belonging to different cohort
Cohort or cohortes may refer to:
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* Cohort (educational group), a group of students working together through the same academic curriculum
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s. Calendar time is usually represented on the horizontal axis, while age is represented on the vertical axis. In some cases, the y-axis is plotted backwards, with age 0 at the top of the page and increasing downwards. Other arrangements of the axes are also seen, and some go back to Lexis himself. As an example the death of an individual in 2009 at age 80 is represented by the point (2009,80); the cohort of all persons born in 1929 is represented by a diagonal line starting at (1929,0) and continuing through (1930,1), (1931, 2), and so on.
References
Further reading
* Feeney, Griffith. ''Lexis Diagram''. In: Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll (eds.) ''Encyclopedia of Population, Volume 2'', Macmillan Reference USA, 2003, 586-588. * N. Keyfitz: ''Introduction to the mathematics of population'', Addison-Wesley, 1968, page 10 *United Nations Statistics Division
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), formerly the United Nations Statistical Office, serves under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) as the central mechanism within the Secretariat of the United Nations ...
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