Population

toc = Definition: = The entire group of interest to researchers, to which they wish to generalize their findings; the group from which a sample is selected. Gen Psych Chapter 1 pp. 16-21

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=In the News:= Cuba's aging population will test economic reform HAVANA (AP) — The scene at Havana’s Victor Hugo Park is unfortunately typical, with a handful of boys kicking a soccer ball through trees while dozens of gray-haired seniors bend and stretch to the urgings of a government-employed trainer. So few children, so many elderly. It’s a central dilemma for a nation whose population is the oldest in Latin America, and getting older. The labor force soon will be shrinking as health costs soar, just when President Raul Castro’s government is struggling to implement reforms that aim to resuscitate an economy long on life support. [] Bosnia pilot census a test for landmark population count Bosnia has launched an internationally monitored pilot census to prepare for its first population count since its 1992-5 civil war. The conflict was part of the break-up of Yugoslavia, and forced nearly half of the country's inhabitants to flee. The test run will determine if Bosnia is ready to conduct a fully-fledged census in April 2013, officials said. Having up-to-date population data is a requirement key for the nation to eventually join the European Union. The two-week pilot census, due to end on 29 October, will question some 15,000 people in Bosnia's post-war entities, the Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska) and the Federation of Bosnia-Hercegovina. []

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