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 I. (noun) 

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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)

 II. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Of or relating to demography

Example:

demographic surveys

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

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.))

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 Context examples: 

A demographic parameter indicating the average amount of earnings made by a family in a particular population or/and during a particular period of time.

(Average Household Income, NCI Thesaurus)

The study compiled additional demographic information on the mothers and children from birth records and other surveys.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

A demographic parameter indicating the average amount of schooling in a particular population or/and during a particular period of time.

(Average Education Level, NCI Thesaurus)

With the help of other datasets and demographic health surveys conducted in several countries, the researchers linked the relative caloric price values to consumption of food groups among children up to five years old and women aged between 15 and 49 years old, and evidence of nutrition outcomes such as undernutrition and obesity.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

You could say that people were returning to traditional family values, or that the crisis has been triggering obscure survival instincts of the species, but not matter how you call it, a new trend is showing in European demographic data.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)