Statistics. Demography. Sociology

Statistics as a science. Statistical theory

⇨ 519.22   Statistical theory. Statistical models. Mathematical statistics in general

Fundamentals, bases of statistics

Statistical measures. Unit. Concept. Criterion

311.12

Statistical grouping

311.13

Statistical series. Classification   Qualitative, quantitative classification

Statistical mean. Averages. Weights. Ratio             

Index numbers

Distribution   Standard deviation. Marginal values, limits. Quartile, percentile

Correlation. Coefficient of correlation. Coefficient of variation

Statistical analysis of complex movement phenomena

Fluctuations: short, medium term

Trend: long term. Fundamental direction of a movement

Seasonal fluctuations. Periodic fluctuations

         Structural changes

Research technique. Preparation. Tabulation

Statistical research

Plan, programme, preparation of survey. Object, scope, location, duration   Draft plan of enumeration. Error prediction. Cost estimates

Execution of survey   Drafting, printing, distribution and collection of questionnaires. Individual and collective forms. Survey processes, organizations, agents (enumerators). Centralization. Decentralization

Kinds of research

Collection of primary statistical material

Representative methods   Sampling. Spot-checking

Inquiries. Evaluation

Single (one-off) and continuous investigations

Collection of secondary statistical material

Monographs. Other methods not strictly statistical

Verification of material. Reliability, accuracy. Errors: systematic, accidental. Sources of error

Formulae for accuracy, for correction

Tabulation. Compilation of tables

Graphic presentation   Diagrams. Cartograms. Histograms. Stereograms

Currency. Topicality. Up-to-dateness. Recency of research

Preservation, storage of statistical documents

General organization of statistics. Official statistics

◇ 311.3:331.56   Official unemployment statistics

◇ 311.3(492)     Official statistics in the Netherlands

Kinds of official statistics

International statistics. Figures from international agencies

National statistics. Figures from national government agencies

Regional statistics. Figures from regional, provincial authorities, counties (UK), states (federal)

Local statistics. Figures from local authorities, municipalities

Private statistics

Statistics of associations, unions (trade, professional, etc.)

Statistics of (single) organizations. Management, internal statistics

Statistics of religious organizations, churches

Society

Demography. Population studies

Application Note: Details by special auxiliaries 3.07/.08

◇ 314.07      Demographic authorities, administration, institutions

◇ 314.08      Demographic personnel of authorities, officials

Special auxiliary subdivision for demography

Subject, scope and aims of demography

Demographic programmes

Demometrics (measurement techniques)

Sources of demographic data, including vital statistics

Types and features of populations. Demographic phenomena. Impact on demographic development

314.044

Voluntary action or change

Compulsory, forced action or change

Population

Population theories

Population policy

◇ 314.113:323.12      Racist population policy. Including: Ethnic cleansing

◇ 314.113:323.12-025.44     Anti-racist population policy

◇ 314.113:323.14     Racial population policy

◇ 314.113.015  Programmes of population policy

⇨ 323.1     Nationalist, popular, ethnic movements and problems. National and ethnic minorities

Factors of demographic phenomena and their effects on social and economic development

Population change, growth, decline

◇ 314.116(083.41)          Statistics of population change, growth, decline

◇ 314.116-022.252       Depopulation

◇ 314.116-022.257      Overpopulation

◇ 314.116-026.16        Stable population

◇ 314.116-026.23      Increase in population

◇ 314.116-026.24      Decrease in population

⇨ 316.362.4      Family size. Planning of the family

Population explosion

Population density

Composition and distribution of the population

Application Note: Details by colon combination, common auxiliaries of place (Table 1e), ethnic grouping (Table 1f) and persons (Table 1k, -05)

◇ 314.117-054.51     Autochthonous inhabitants (peoples whose residence is also their place of birth)

◇ 314.117-054.52    Allochthonous inhabitants (people whose place of residence is not their place of birth)

◇ 314.117-054.72-027.583    Illegal immigrants

◇ 314.117-055.1     Preponderance of males

◇ 314.117-055.2    Preponderance of females

◇ 314.117-058.51    Wanderers. Vagrants

Composition and distribution according to birthplace or domicile

Composition and distribution according to birthplace

Types of household

◇ 314.117.31:316.362    Households comprising family units

◇ 314.117.31-05-022.214    Households comprising one person

Alternative forms of household   Communes

Life expectancy

Births

Death. Morbidity

⇨ 393      Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites

Migration. Movement of populations

◇ 314.15:343.343.62    Illegal immigration

◇ 314.15″32″    Seasonal migration

◇ 314.15-022.324     Permanent migration

◇ 314.15-022.326    Temporary migration

◇ 314.15-026.48     In-migration

◇ 314.15-026.49     Out-migration

◇ 314.15.044     Voluntary migration

◇ 314.15.045     Forced migration

Population transfer

Expatriation

Types of migrant

Application Note: Details by common auxiliairies of persons (Table 1k, -05)

◇ 314.151.3-054.7      Expatriates. Exiles. Repatriates. Migrants. Stateless persons

◇ 314.151.3-054.72      Voluntary migrants. Including: Immigrants. Emigrants

◇ 314.151.3-054.73      Refugees. Evacuees. Displaced persons

◇ 314.151.3-054.74      Compulsory exiles. Banned persons (proscribed from entry). Expellees. Deportees

◇ 314.151.3-054.75    Repatriates

◇ 314.151.3-054.78    Stateless persons. Apatriates

Repatriation

Transit migration

Re-emigration

Sociology

Application Note: Details on special sociologies by colon combination (Table 1b)

◇ 316:61      Medical sociology

⇨ 355.01       War. Sociology of war. Philosophy of war. Militarism

⇨ 37.013.78     Sociological pedagogics

⇨ 591.55      Animal societies. Animal sociology. Communal life

Special auxiliary subdivision for sociology

316.01

Domains, approaches in sociology

316.012

Mesosociology

Microsociology

Social groups according to proportion and size

Majorities. Minorities

316.022.2

Majorities

Minorities

Social groups according to size

316.023.2

Small social groups

Medium social groups

Large social groups

316.03

Social groups according to interactions, relationships

Primary social group

Scope Note: Groups with intimate, kinship-based relationships

⇨ -055.5/.7    Persons according to family or other kinship relations

⇨ -058.8      Persons according to marriage, family or other civil status

⇨ 173      Family ethics

⇨ 316.36    Marriage and family

Secondary social group

Scope Note: Groups with formal, institutional relationships

Object and scope of sociology

Sociological points of view and trends

Scope Note: The names of individual sociologists in the subdivisions of this class are intended only to characterise the type of tendency mentioned

Application Note: Details by alphabetical extensions (Table 1h)

Mechanistic trend

Sociological mechanists (S. C. Haret, A. J. Lotka)

Sociological physicists (Carey)

Sociological energeticists (Solvay, Bekhterev, Ostwald, Winiarski)

Mathematical sociologists (Pareto, Carli)

Synthetic and geographical trends

Synthetico-geographical trend (Le Play)

Geographical trend (Jevons, Moore, Huntington)

Biological trend