They can determine their key customers or target market and create marketing materials.
Demographics also affect other business factors such as pricing, packaging, and service offers.
When marketing campaigns are aligned with the demographics of customers, sales will likely increase..
In relationships, risk factors include parents who use drugs and alcohol or who suffer from mental illness, child abuse and maltreatment, and inadequate supervision.
In this context, parental involvement is an example of a protective factor.
In communities, risk factors include neighborhood poverty and violence..
Demographic information examples include: age, race, ethnicity, gender, marital status, income, education, and employment..
The overall effects of demographic factors studied in the field as risk factors were significant but weak, and that of demographic factors studied as protective factors were non-significant
Adjusting for publication bias further reduced effect estimates
No specific demographic factors appeared to be strong predictors
9) demonstrate that, for all of the gender and race variables, there were both positive and negative impact scores, which means that these factors were associated with increased risks on some patients and decreased risks on the other patients
Risk and protective factors are both predictors, special types of correlates that precede the outcome of interest and divide the population into high- and low-risk groups
Longitudinal designs are necessary to identify risk and protective factors
Certain factors, like sex, age, or income can influence an individual’s health, risk for certain diseases, and risk for being seriously affected by public health emergencies. The same is true for population groups.
Among the demographic risk factors, the person’s age, marital status, employment, and education are the most common and frequently studied (e.g., Clinton-Sherrod, Barrick, & Gibbs, 2011).