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FORMAL POPULATION GEOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT #2: MULTIREGIONAL ANALYSIS |
Due November 20
The principal purpose of this assignment
is to have you become acquainted with the software package SPACE and, more
specifically, to have you learn how to interpret the program's outputs.
Toward this end, please develop two computer outputs:
| 1) | U.S. closed biregional origin-independent model --- Example 1, Rogers
(1995)
Reproduce the biregional closed model results in Chapter 4 and 5, focusing in particular on the life table and on projections to stability. Interpret and discuss. Input data are on Table 4.1 (p. 85)
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| 2) | U.S. open biregional origin-dependent model --- Example 4, Rogers
(1995)
Reproduce the biregional open model results in Chapter 7, again focusing in particular on the life table and on projections to stability. Interpret and discuss. How has introducing origin-dependence and opening the model to international migration altered the results? Contrast foreign born patterns with native born patterns. Input data are in Tables 6.4 (pp. 147-149), 7.1 (p. 181), and 7.2 (p. 187) |