Session 9: Presenting results

• 9.1.How to present the results of population projections

• 9.2. Presentation of country projection by participants

• 9.3. Q & A

9.1.How to present the results of population projections

• General guidelines• Preparing a report• Presentation Media

Presenting results

• General guidelines– Provide a background– Motivation– Identify objectives– Explain the assumptions and document your data

sources– Describe the findings– Summarize the results and make

recommendations

• Preparing a report• Population projections produce usually large

amounts of data. The results of such an exercise are often published in a number of different documents: A press release, an executive summary and a full report, sometimes with a number of annexes.

• Sometimes, highlights of the results are prepared as an early-release to document the exercise in a more comprehensive way and to give room for the assumptions and the main tabular and graphical results.

Presenting results

• Preparing a report: Structure– Title Page – Table of Contents– Executive Summary– Methodology– Findings– Conclusion and Recommendations.

Presenting results

• Presentation Media• Printed documents• Online presence• PowerPoint• Movies (YouTube, etc.)• Social media

Presenting results

A picture is worth a thousand words.

• Examples of visuals• WPP, WUP, Gapminder• Population pyramids

Presenting results

A picture is worth a thousand words

• World Population Prospects: Analytical Figures

http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Analytical-Figures/htm/fig_overview.htm

A picture is worth a thousand words

Estimated and projected world population according to different variants, 1950-2100 (billions)

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011): World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. New York

A picture is worth a thousand words

Average annual rate of change of the world population by projection variant (percentage)

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011): World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. New York

A picture is worth a thousand words

Population of Europe, Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa (millions)

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011): World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. New York

A picture is worth a thousand words

Population by Total Fertility (millions) Number of Countries by Total Fertility

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011): World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. New York

A picture is worth a thousand words

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division: World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision. New York 2012

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Transformation of age structures:World Population

Transformation of age structures:Deaths

9.2. Presentation of country projection by participants

9.3. Q & A

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