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Tool #1 - Population Projections: Features List |
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Cohort-component-projection
(core engine), based on age-specific fertility rates, central death
rates, mid-term adjusted migration, and (if requested) calibration
factors |
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Complete
sets of default input data for all countries and major
regions worldwide
(according to the 1998 UN World Population Prospects) for quick and
easy projections |
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Automatic
calculation of abbreviated life tables (you can use standard death rates as input for the projection) |
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Completely
transparent file structure
(all input and output files are standard ASCII files, which
you can edit freely) |
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Automatic
summary tables
(total population, population by age groups, total population
change, population change in %) |
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Trend
charts
(total population & population by selected age groups: children
& elderly) |
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Animated
population
pyramids (to
show population change unfold during projection period) |
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Copy
& paste of output tables
(into Windows applications, such as MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, Adobe
Photoshop) |
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Copy
& paste of output charts
(into Windows applications, such as MS-Word, Paintbrush, Internet
Explorer, Netscape) |
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Printing:
total population
by age and sex for total projection period (5-year steps) |
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Printing:
population by selected age groups
(total population in age group and as percentage of total) |
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Loading
and saving of custom input files
(with your own input data or with your modifications of the UN
default input data sets) |
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Extended
print menu
with additional possibilities to modify print parameters (selective
printing) |
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Additional
output: total number of annual births & deaths for all projection periods (male & female) |
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Additional
output: crude birth rate, crude death rate, rate of natural
population change
for all projection periods |
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Lectures in demographic modeling
(with problem description, modeling instructions, discussion of
results) |
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Custom input data sets,
specifically prepared for the demographic lectures; automatic
loading of appropriate input data files for each lecture |
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Advanced
input parameter menu
with additional possibilities to modify projection parameters |
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Advanced
printing options: printing of abbreviated life tables for the base period and for all projection periods (male
& female) |
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Options
for changing the colors in charts (important
for publishing and MS-PowerPoint presentations) |
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Advanced
UN input data selection menu
with separate sorting for regions, countries; also has UN sort order
and alphabetical sorting |
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Copyright © 2000-2005 by Gerhard K. Heilig. All rights reserved. |
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