Population Aging
Lower birthrates and longer lives lead to 'population aging' (i.e., more elderly people and fewer children). Population aging is most rapid, and has gone furthest, in the developed world.
population decrements
reduction in a retirement plan's population resulting from the death, disability, and termination of its members.
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Population pyramid
Definition: Graph showing the age structure of the population.
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Population and sample variance
The definition of the variance given above is the population variance. The formula given assumes that the calculation is carried out with complete data rather than a sample.
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Population
The set of all elements in the universe of interest to the researcher. A frame comprises the elementary units with the appropriate restrictions imposed on the target population. A sample a subset of the population or frame.
Population growth rate. The increase in a country's population during a certain period- usually one year- expressed as a percentage of the population when the period began.
population size The number of items in the population from which a sample is drawn.
Population growth rate -The increase in a country's population in a year expressed as percentage of the population at the beginning of the year. It reflects the difference between birth rate and death rate plus net migration.
Population
As of 2006, California has an estimated population of over 37 million. More than 12% of U.S. citizens live in the state. California has 8 of the top 50 U.S. cities in terms of population.
Population size; urban versus rural population
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The country's education policy: whether education is regulated on what is taught in each class, or by examination success.
Population
The population is the set of all the elements that constitute an account balance or class of transactions.
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Population
A statistical term that takes into account all of the units that are of interest for a certain situation.
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Population (Pop)
The total number of people in a country or region or any geographic area.
Population base
The total number of people to which the sample has been projected.
The population density was 66,940.1/mi² (25,849.9/km²), the highest population density of any county in the United States. In 1910, at the height of a wave of European immigration to New York, Manhattan's population density reached a peak of 46,428.
Population
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"Running a deficit" is sometimes proposed as a short term economic stimulus (Democrats tend to mean an increase in spending, Republicans tend to mean a decrease in tax rates); but the after-effects can be a long term drag, ...
CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY: A monthly survey of 60,000 occupied households undertaken by the Bureau of the Census which is then used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to estimate the employment, unemployment, ...
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Current Population Survey a monthly survey of a sample of U.S. households done by the U.S. Census Bureau; it measures employment, unemployment, the labor force, and other characteristics of the U.S. population. (14, 21) ...
Stationary Population
A theoretical population used in mortality tables which experienced exactly the same birth and mortality characteristics for a very long time until the population of each age group stabilized. See actuarial model.
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Sustainable population levels.
Waste production. How much waste is buried, dumped at sea and burnt.
Persistent toxic waste. Some waste is bio-degradeable others are non-degradeable and damaging e.g. mercury, lead e.t.c ...
China has a population of about 1.3 billion people; about five times the size of the United States. The size of the middle class is over 300 million and is expected to grow exponentially, as migrant workers have more disposable income.
Employment-To-Population Ratio
A macroeconomic statistic that takes the ratio of the total working age of the labor force currently employed to the total working age population of a region, municipality or country. It is calculated by: ...
[Aspects of the population doing the demanding are often left implicit. An actual supply is not necessary to conceive of demand because demand involves hypothetical quantities.]
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savings rate The percentage of savings of a population, calculated by dividing the overall savings by disposable income. SBA Acronym for Small Business Administration. SBD The ISO code for the Soloman Islands.
Per capita debt The total bonded debt of a municipality divided by the population of the municipality. Per stirpes A method for distributing the assets of an individual who dies without a valid will. The Latin means for each descendant.
Law of large numbers The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Sustained increase in the economic standard of living of a country's population, normally accomplished by increasing its stocks of physical and human capital and improving its technology.
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This is the proportion of the population aged between 15 and 64 who are in the labour force. The higher the rate of participation, the greater the supply of labour (a factor of production) available in a country.
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These causes tended to depress the scale of prices, while the barbarian invasions produced a strong effect on the supply by drawing off the mining population and damaging the various erections used for working the mines.
Mature economy The economy of a nation with a stable population and slowing economic growth. Matured noninterest-bearing debt Outstanding savings bonds and notes that have reached final maturity and no longer earn interest.
The funding formula for the ECB would be based both on a Member State's population and on its gross domestic product. The ECB will form, together with the national central banks, the European System of Central Banks. See: Maastricht Treaty.
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dollars using the World Bank Atlas method, divided by the midyear population.
Labour force [r]: That part of a country's population that is available for employment, including those in employment, the self-employed and the unemployed (otherwise termed the "working population"). [e] ...
It is also important to keep in mind that GNP and GDP (even when divided by the size of the population to produce "per capita GNP") were never intended even theoretically to be good measures of overall economic welfare: they are at best only measures ...
In most Western countries more than half the population will, directly or indirectly, have a money manager working for them. The managers find suitable investments, and are usually given the discretion by clients to make investments on their behalf.
A broad range of countries that generally lack a high degree of industrialization, infrastructure and other capital investment, sophisticated technology, widespread literacy and advanced living standards among their populations as a whole.
Demographics is the classification of populations, especially consumers, by various characteristics, including age, gender, race, religion, and income. Demographics is vital to investing in several ways.
Employed persons (Current Population Survey). Persons 16 years and over in the civilian noninstitutional population who, during the reference week, (a) did any work at all (at least 1 hour) as paid employees, worked in their own business, ...
Specific demographic target population?
Is the business seasonal?
Did the taxpayer have a business plan?
Was the plan followed?
How did the taxpayer propose to compete with similar businesses?
Unemployment is a measure of the active population within an economic environment ( the national, regional or local economy) , that is willing and able to work, but is not officially employed or self-employed.
was Thomas Malthus, whose predictions that population growth would always tend to outstrip advances in the means of subsistence earned for economics the title "the dismal science." The most important economist to follow Smith was David Ricardo.
The global population is increasing and more people are living longer. With a rising middle class in the BRIC nations, more people can afford better health care. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
In today's ever growing population, where banks offer hundreds of different services it is not always feasible for financial institutions to negotiate mortgages or offer in depth advice to borrowers.
The CPI represents the majority of the US population, as it measures all urban consumers and their spending habits. This sector comprises 87% of Americans.
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For example, median income, where half the population is above and half below the median, is usually a more informative measure than mean income.
This borough is nearly four times as large as Manhattan Island and has a population of about four million. It is one of the primary bedroom communities for New York City. Unlike Manhattan, there are few tall buildings in Brooklyn.
random sampling: an unbiased sampling technique in which every member of the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample.
Some 15% of the working population now count as self-employed. The traditional route for the self-employed to get a mortgage was to present three years of trading accounts. However, in many cases this can be difficult.
In capitalism, economic power and private ownership of capital are concentrated in a small percentage of the population (i.e., a few own). In socialism/communism, the state owns and/or controls productive capital (i.e., nobody owns).
With the aging of the population, many people feel that health care will be one of the largest growing sectors in the coming decades.
Being in debt has taken on epidemic proportions with the general population of this country. Credit consolidation programs seem to be popping up all over the place these days in huge numbers.
For example, if GDP grows but the population grows at a faster rate, average income actually declines. Looking at GDP per capita would make this apparent since, in such a case, it too would decline. Canada's GDP per capita in 1996 was about $26,658.
Demographics
The characteristics of human populations and population segments that influence the consumption of products and services. They include age, sex, race, family size, education level, occupation, income, and location of residence.
Since then, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has published CPIs for two population groups. The index used in this publication is for all US Urban Consumers (CPI-U), which covers approximately 80% of the non-institutionalized civilian population.
This closely addresses the concerns of populations affected by the World Bank's operations and ensures they adhere to the institution's operational policies and procedures regarding the design, preparation and implementation of a project.
The death rates for various age groups of the population.
input-output coefficient
a number (prefaced as a multiplier
to an unknown variable) that indicates the rate at which each
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The economy of a nation with a stable population and slowing economic growth.
Maturity
For a bond, the date on which the principal is required to be repaid. In an interest rate swap, the date that the swap stops accruing interest.
 See also: Perfect competition, Elastic, Feedback, Tip, Marginal cost
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