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Good demographics can help allocate proper resources. For instance the types of health services needed for a metropolitan area will differ wildly from a mining
by transitorykris 9y ago
Good demographics can help allocate proper resources. For instance the types of health services needed for a metropolitan area will differ wildly from a mining town.
- GuiA 9y agoSure, but perhaps good demographics should come from what has historically happened rather than poorly defined categories? For instance, wouldn't the number of teen pregnancies in a given area over the past 10 years be much more useful in determining how much resources to allocate to reproductive health than knowing how many biologically female teenagers there are in that area?
- baumandm 9y agoThis would only hold if the demographics stay the same. In 10 years time, half a generation of children will grow into their teens . If for some reason there are more/fewer biologically female teenagers, you might expect more/fewer teen pregnancies. Moreover, the teen pregnancy rate is impacted by many unrelated factors (sex education, social mores, etc). You could try to model the change these factors might have, but starting from actual demographics gives you an additional piece of information.