skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

contexts > demography > composition of the population
contexts > population characteristics > demography > composition of the population

Preferred term

composition of the population  

Definition(s)

  • Population composition refers to the distribution within a population of one or more individually defined traits that influence population comparisons or demographic phenomena. The individual traits or variables to which population composition refers are usually those believed to have major significance for the uses of population data. [Source: Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census; Composition of the Population]

Broader concept(s)

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TPFDH9LK-5

Download this concept: