DEMOGRAPHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demographic mean? 

• DEMOGRAPHIC (noun)
  The noun DEMOGRAPHIC has 1 sense:

1. a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)

  Familiarity information: DEMOGRAPHIC used as a noun is very rare.

• DEMOGRAPHIC (adjective)
  The adjective DEMOGRAPHIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to demography

  Familiarity information: DEMOGRAPHIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOGRAPHIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("demographic" is a kind of...):

statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Derivation:

demographic (of or relating to demography)

• DEMOGRAPHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to demography

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

demographic surveys

Pertainym:

demography (the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations)

Derivation:

demographic (a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.))

 Context examples 

The date and time demographic data was collected.

(Demographics Data Collection Date Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Case reports also contain some demographic information about the patient (for example, age, gender, ethnic origin).

(Case report, NCI Dictionary)

This includes demographic information (for example, age, gender, ethnic origin) and information on diagnosis, treatment, response to treatment, and follow-up after treatment.

(Case series, NCI Dictionary)

The connection between a poor sense of smell and mortality risk didn't appear to differ by sex or race or based on individuals' demographic characteristics, lifestyle, and or chronic health conditions.

(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A demographic parameter indicating the amount of earnings made by a family.

(Household Income, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers also examined if certain clinical or demographic characteristics measured at the emergency department visit were predictive of subsequent suicide death.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

The Subject-Level Analysis Dataset (ADSL) is a one-record-per-subject dataset which contains variables that describe subject demographic characteristics and group the subjects for analysis.

(CDISC Subject Level Analysis Dataset, NCI Thesaurus)

The study showed that the proportion of deaths associated with suboptimal diet varied across demographic groups.

(How dietary factors influence disease risk, NIH)

A demographic parameter indicating a person's current conjugal status.

(Marital Status, NCI Thesaurus)

An automated, on-line medical record containing clinical and demographic information about a patient that is available to providers, ancillary service departments, pharmacies, and others involved in patient treatment or care.

(Electronic medical record, NCI Thesaurus)