demographic
adjective
- relating to demography
noun
- selected population subset
- statistics of populations (plural)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
adj
Etymology: From demography + -ic.
- Of or pertaining to demography.
“Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."”
“A growing foreign-born population has sparked debate in Japan amid the pressures of a demographic crisis and economic worries.”
noun
Etymology: From demography + -ic.
- A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
“1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604, Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]”
“2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, Island Press, →ISBN, page 82, How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?”
- A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
“2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281, […] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.”
“A newspaper is consumed by many demographics, a small portion of which may be the target.”
- An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.