Best Practices for Presenting Population Projections: Guidelines and Tips
This session focuses on effective methods for presenting results from population projections. Learn how to prepare comprehensive reports that include vital components such as objectives, assumptions, data sources, findings, and recommendations. Discuss key aspects of utilizing various presentation media like printed documents, PowerPoint, and social media. Gain insights from participants showcasing country-level projections, and engage in a Q&A session to deepen your understanding. Essential visual tools such as population pyramids and analytical figures from reputable sources will also be highlighted.
Best Practices for Presenting Population Projections: Guidelines and Tips
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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
Presenting results • 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
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
9.1.How to present the results of population projections PASEX: PYRAMID.xls PYRAMIDnewA.xls