Diabetes

Diabetes in Los Angeles, California

Introduction

Demographics

In simple words Demographics means the existing statistical traits or characteristics of the population. This kind of data is vital for Governments to make policies accordingly. More over demographics help in the field of research and in the field of marketing. In general the demographics are categorized on the basis of gender, on the basis of age, on the basis of health, education, status of employment, location wise, and race and on the basis of mobility such as immigration from other country. The trends of demographics help expert to find historical changes in demographics and to search what can be the possible reasons of demographical changes. A good example can be the change of age limit as more and more people are having long lives. Demographics help to analyze the marketing experts to identify the most appropriate segments and to make strategies effectively for their relevant segments. For example if the demographics show that a large portion of population is based on youth than marketing experts will make marketing strategies by targeting youth, like advertising on Colleges and Universities. Considering the social aspect, demographics help the social scientists to read the changes which have occurred and which will occur in future in the society because of change in demographics. For example change in human behavior due to immigration of Asian s in US, or due to marriages of US citizens with Asians. It also helps to find out the reasons for change in demography.

Discussion

State Demographics of Los Angeles

The state demographics of Los Angeles show that till the year 2011 the estimated population of Los Angeles was 9,889,056. The study shows that almost 6.6% of the population was based on persons under 5, 24.1% was based on persons under 18, and 11.1% persons of or above the age of 65. The estimated study is as of 2011for Los Angeles. Further it says that the percentage of females was 50.7% of the total population. More over the study showed that the percentage of whites in Los Angeles till 2011 was 71.8% and the percentage of black people was 9.3% and remaining portion was of other ethnic groups. In other ethnic groups the largest percentage was of Asians which as 14.2%. The division on the basis of business was as till the year 2009 the nonfarm establishments were 245,523, nonfarm employment 3,703,233. The total number of firms according to the census report of 2007 was 1,046,940. The number of firms owned by blacks till the year 2007 was 5.7%. The number of firms owned by Asians were 17.5 till the year 2007. Considering the educational level the demographic were as the percentage of persons who were 25 plus and high school graduates were having a share of 75.9% till the year 2010. The Bachelors degree holder with the age of 25 plus had a share of 29.0% till the year 2010 (quickfacts.census.gov).

Health Status of Los Angeles

The study makes an analysis that what is the situation of health ...