Census 2021: How well do you know your area?

These quizzes were previously available for the 2011 Census, and are now back with data from the 2021 Census.

✨IT'S QUIZ TIME!✨
So, you think you know your local area? Now you can test your knowledge in the new #CensusQuiz and broadcast your scores on to your friends and followers on social media!https://t.co/yIf0YfMx6q pic.twitter.com/SHLuFnDw14

— Ahmad Barclay (@bothness) December 2, 2022

The quizzes can be embedded, which makes them particularly useful for teachers who can add them to VLE pages etc.

Age-Sex Pyramids

 A few issues with these of course, but this is a helpful video,

Population pyramid from Ined on Vimeo.

The population includes males and females of all ages.

To see at a glance how they are distributed by age and sex, demographers use a population pyramid. But, as you will see, it doesn't always have a pyramid shape. And how do we build one?

Crédits
Designed by : Gilles Pison et Sabine Belloc
Multimedia Project Manager : Thierry Jori
Produced by : SO2 Media
An animation of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies and of Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

UK in 21st Century

Italy doubles its baby bonus

Italy is facing a decline in its population in the future.
As part of an attempt to encourage more births, the government is now increasing the payments that it makes to parents.

Just 488,00 babies were born in Italy in 2015
1.39 babies per woman, far below replacement level...

Impacts of migration linked with Brexit

Newsnight last night came from Boston in Lincolnshire, where there's been a large amount of immigration of workers from the EU, and has been in the news several times as an 'example' of a place that has changed as a result. Have those changes been positive or not, and how has the current make-up of the town reflected previous patterns of employment?
There's a useful BBC news article HERE.


Or, for the next month you can watch the programme HERE - watch from around 7'40" in to see the section which relates to the BBC news article.
Useful for Year 10-13 to watch in particular.

Reading for Year 12

This is important reading.

It's the introduction to a forthcoming publication on the ageing of the world's population, and provides a useful narrative on the opportunities and threats posed by this change in the global demographic.

Population History

Connects with the ideas of Malthus...

Explore the map and data or watch the video....

Urban poverty and the link with social welfare...

One for Y12. This video by Charlotte Lemanski has her looking at the nature of urban poverty and how it's connected with urban structure and the development of cities. Hosted on the GA website too, where there are other related links as part of their new Videocasts.

Singapore: population conundrum

World Population Growth videos...

Be critical remember… Here's an NPR one…

Population stories in the news today

Plenty of population interest in the news today.
Firstly, the announcement from the Chinese news agency Xinhua that the government intends to end the One Child Policy, first introduced in 1980

This is partly due to economic reasons apparently, but also to try to rebalance the country's population. Currently around 30% of the population is over the age of 50. Many of these people may have only one child now to potentially support them in their old age.

A lot of case studies will now have to be re-written.

There was also a story about the UK's population.
There have been some ONS releases relating to the country's median age etc. and the latest forecasts of the UK's growth suggests that were heading for 70 million.

Plenty of interest for GCSE and 'A' level students.

There is also a new visualisation of migration trends here.

Public Radio International on the One Child Policy

The China One Child Policy is now 35 years old.
It was introduced to slow the rate of population growth in the country.

There is a brief piece here which is worth listening to in order to get an idea of the impacts of the policy on the population structure, and the wider Chinese economy in the future.

UK population pyramid infographic - interact with it...

Graphic by Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Population videos - for Year 12

This is a very useful set of infographics and videos from the French institute for demographics: INED
Check out this one on Fertility rates which we shall be using this week.

These are the sorts of resources that you need to engage with...

And also maps like this...

How long will you live for ?

A visualisation by the ONS - useful for Year 12 Geographers who are exploring the idea of life expectancy...

Internal Migration

A very detailed and valuable resource, shared by our American chum Seth Dixon.

Scotland's Census

Scotland is sparsely populated right?
We will be looking at the factors which lead to some areas being sparsely populated, and on the basis of the broad look at the population, Scotland does indeed have a sparse population compared to the SE of England...
However, the reality is more nuanced. A choropleth map would shade the whole of Scotland in the same colour if plotted at a national scale. At a regional level, there would be some variations, and a variety of tones depending on the colour ramp that was used.

We will also be using the UK Data Explorer to take a look at some of the Census data from the UK too.

Census Song

Via Rob Chambers

Migration images

I'm grateful to Duncan Hawley for sending through these images that he took a couple of weeks ago in Budapest. I was due to be present at the same conference, but ended up in Bruges instead. The pictures were taken at the main railway station.

Year 9, 10, 11, and 12 geographers in particular should be able to discuss the circumstances which have led to these scenes.

Images: copyright Duncan Hawley

A Sky News film to watch

Urban patterns

Year 10 are underway with Population students, and we used Ben Hennig's rather splendid images and mapping (and also with Year 12)
Here's a map from the Independent's i newspaper, which is a great website and Twitter feed to follow for all King's Geographers.

It shows the country where the largest city houses the most people within the population of that country. So Singapore, for example is 100% urbanised and holds 100% of the people of Singapore.