Demography & Geographic Information Systems (DGIS) target secondary analyses of large data sets in CED planning and policy development. DGIS supports community needs assessments, development planning, policy analysis, research and evaluation. Demography topics include: Population analysis (growth, mortality, fertility, age structure, migration, settlement, density, forecasting techniques); population Issues (causes/consequences of population change, assessing population needs); economic demography (economic consequences of demographic change in developing/developed countries); population & CED (poverty, inequality, stratification, mobility). GIS topics include: Research Techniques (data capture, index creation, analysis, presentation); CED mapping (analytical exercises using Census and Labor Statistics data to create maps blending layers of information with cartographic boundaries).