Abstract:Understanding the processes of variation of the population contingent of a given region is important and essential for related studies, mainly environmental planning issues. In this way, this article proposes to measure the population variation of a municipality, comparing two methods of population estimation, arithmetic and geometric, in order to choose the one that best quantified and represented the population changes of a region over the years. For this, census data from the years 1991, 2000 and 2010 were … Show more
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