SOCIOL M213AIntroduction to Demographic Methods
Sociology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Biostatistics M208, Community Health Sciences M208, and Economics M208.) Introduction to methods of demographic analysis. Topics include demographic rates, standardization, decomposition of differences, life tables, survival analysis, cohort analysis, birth interval analysis, models of population growth, stable populations, population projection, and demographic data sources.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Preparation: one introductory statistics course.
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SOCIOL M213A
- SOCIOL M213CPopulation Models and Dynamics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.