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demographics Demographics or demographic data are the characteristics of a population as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research. Note the distinction from the term “demography”.
Commonly-used demographics include sex, race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location. Distributions of values within a demographic variable, and across households, are both of interest, as well as trends over time. Demographics are frequently used in economic and marketing research. It is important to distinguish between demographics and psychographics.
Demographic trends describes the changes in demographics in a population over time. For example, the average age of a population may increase over time. It may decrease as well. Certain restrictions may be set in place changing those numbers. For instance in China with the one child policy.
The term demographics as a noun is often used erroneously in place of demography, the study of human population, its structure and change. Although there is no absolute delineation, demography focuses on population structure, processes and dynamics, whereas demographics is most often used in the fields of media studies, advertising, marketing, and polling, and should not be used interchangeably with the term “demography” or (more broadly) “population studies”.
(Wikipedia Jan 2010)
Blood in the Streets:
By John Schroy, on May 20th, 2010 | 
Markets can be inefficient for different reasons and persist for long periods. The transition between one type of inefficient market to the next is usually a period of strife and uncertainty which may last five to fifteen years. Looking back at how the economy emerged from previous transitions, I note that in each new period, equity prices started at reasonable levels. This was true at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties, the Post WW II Period, and the Reagan Era. It is as if markets, recognizing prior inefficiencies ‘reset’ and start over. However, for the current market to ‘reset’, it will be necessary for equity prices to fall considerably, which will have dire consequences.
Healthcare Economics
By John Schroy, on April 7th, 2010 | 
Barack Obama failed to achieve his dream of nationalized healthcare for one simple reason.
He forgot that doctors and hospitals were still operating under the Free Enterprise system. His focus was entirely on health insurance, as if this were the only road to healthcare. Doctors and hospitals are still in the private sector.
They are still free to act — and react. And they will.
US tax policy
By John Schroy, on March 7th, 2010 | 
If we are to believe the old adage that, ‘people vote their pocketbooks’, why are so many of the Super-Rich ardent supporters of the Democratic Party?
Why do the liberal Super-Rich seem to act in a way that is so contrary to their selfish interests and economic well-being?
Here I show how capital flow analysis of the Federal Reserve flow of funds accounts provides an answer to this apparent conundrum.
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