Demopaedia, the Wiki-Based Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, is now available online in 14 language modules at www.demopaedia.org.
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Two members from the modelling strand of CPC took part in the Joint Eurostat/UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projections in Lisbon, Portugal on the 28th to the 30th April 2010. Jakub Bijak contributed a presentation on uncertainty in international migration forecasts while Guy Abel discussed his work on Bayesian methods for population forecasting.
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Migration flow data informs policy makers, the media and academic community about the level and direction of population movements. However, reliable migration data for comparisons of international population flows between a set of countries are often lacking. Reported counts are commonly incomplete or produced to country specific data collection and measurement techniques. This results in inconsistencies when comparing countries estimates of the same migration flow.
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CPC researcher Dr Athina Vlachantoni has been getting involved in the ESRC initiative to make Social Science more accessible to children. Social Science for Schools is a new ESRC information portal that brings together Social Science resources in an easy to understand manner. Athina's thought provoking opinion piece discusses issues around old age, living longer and pension provision in order to encourage debate. Athina's think piece can be viewed here.
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In the age of increasing separation and repartnering have you ever wondered how fertility is affected? Do separations reduce fertility by preventing births? Or do they have the opposite effect, with second unions providing new opportunities for childbearing? To find out the answer read Eva Beaujouan's recent analysis of French data here
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We have two new funded studentships based at the Centre for Research on Families and Children, university of Edinburgh.
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CPC researcher Dr Eva Beaujouan has recently published 2 chapters in an edited collection of papers on the contemporary family. Evas first study Neither single, nor in a couple: A study of living apart together in France addresses questions such as; How have non-cohabiting relationships evolved in recent decades? How can we recognise these relationships, and who are the populations concerned?
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the 'Independent review of methods for distributing international immigration estimates to regions' authored by CPC researcher, Dr Jakub Bijak, was published today by the Office for national Statistics.
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