demographic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to demography

   demographic surveys

2. 2
   adj

   Of or pertaining to demography.

   Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."

3. 3
   noun

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

   1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604, Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]

4. 4
   noun

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

   2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281, […] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

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

Etymology

From demography + -ic.