How is demography different from other forms of comparative and historical research? What type of research does it most resemble? Explain your answer.

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Demography—the statistical and mathematical study of size, composition, and spatial distribution of human populations and how these features change over time; demographers explain population change in terms of five processes: (1) fertility, (2) mortality, (3) marriage, (4) migration, and (5) social mobility; demographers obtain data from a census of the population and from registries.