DEMOGRAPHIC

demographic

(adjective) of or relating to demography; “demographic surveys”

demographic

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

demographic (comparative more demographic, superlative most demographic)

Of or pertaining to demography.

Noun

demographic (plural demographics)

(chiefly, in plural) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.

A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.

Synonym: demo (informal)

An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Source: Wiktionary



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