As the American population continues to age, there is a growing concern in some quarters that the government and the private sector might be ill-prepared with the increased demands of an older population. The Brookings...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Demography Centers website contains a wealth of resources and data on aging. The site contains syllabi for a variety of aging-related courses and links to several datasets...

One of the primary tools that demographers use to understand population is the age structure diagram, a graphic representation that shows the distribution by ages of females and males within a certain population. This...

Students will complete this activity in conjunction with an introductory statistics lesson about the importance of samples. Students will use the Oregon Reference Map and use the data to find basic statistics about...