Tools and resources

This aim of this section is to provide analytical tools and resources to assist analysts and managers with policy development or service-planning projects.

The tools and resources contained in this section are:

• an eight-step checklist - for a variety of policy development or service planning projects
• detailed questions and prompts for larger-scale policy development and service planning exercises (policy development cycle)
• guidelines for interpreting demographic statistics
• guidelines for designing statistical tables
• a guide to the impacts public policy can have on the population of a country
• a practical framework for analysing population structure
• discussion of new trends in topical population issues
• highlight of common misunderstandings of population issues.