The research of the Unit deals mainly with mortality and health, marriage and family, fertility and social exclusion in urban areas. Most of the research is based on large individual-level data sets compiled in cooperation with Statistics Finland by linking records from the national population register to records from various other registers.
The Latvia’s national web site POPIN-Latvia was created by the Centre of Demography, University of Latvia (consultant Mr. Peteris Zvidrins) within the framework of the UN POPIN work programme, guided by the POPIN Advisory/Coordinating Committee. The main aim of this web site is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of population and family planning issues in Latvia.The objectives are : to collect, summarize and disseminate ...
The Institute for Applied Demography, Berlin-Brandenburg, plc (IFAD) is a non-profit research institution with longstanding experience in the empirical and theoretical social research. The Institute concentrates its activities on the following main areas of research: Investigation on demographic processes in Germany - projections, Development trends within regional labour markets, Complex investigations on selected social areas - urban and regional sociology, Analysis of the situation of selected social groups. ...
The Vienna Institute of Demography analyses demographic trends and projections and the social and economic consequences of population ageing. It gives special attention to the demography of Austria and to European comparative analysis. The Institute is embedded in the structure of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The VID publishes the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, an annual publication for internationally refereed articles available online free of charge, Demografische ...
The Inter-University Centre for Demographic Study (CIED in French) was created in 1997 by the University of Montreal and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). The CIED brings together professors and researchers in demography from the department of demography at the University of Montreal and those from INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société.
Founded in 1965, the demography department at the University of Montreal is still the only francophone demography department in North America to date. Its demographic cursus offers an extensive range of programs at various study levels. Among its numerous research activities, historical demography research is the most important one.
The Federation of Canadian Demographers is an organization created through the joint initiative of the Association des Démographes du Québec (ADQ) and the Canadian Population Society (CPS). The objectives of the Federation are to promote research and the scientific study of demography throughout Canada, to foster cooperation and international exchanges on questions of population and development, and to enrich the ...
Established in 1966, the Population Research Laboratory (PRL) is a centre for social science research at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. With more than 100 employees, the PRL is the largest centre of its kind in Western Canada. It has extensive experience in conducting research in the areas of science and technology, education, health, labour markets, social policy, immigration, public opinion and the environment. Our ...
The Research Program in Historical Demography (PRDH) at the Université de Montréal has undertaken an exhaustive reconstruction of the population of Quebec from the beginnings of French colonization in the seventeenth century in the form of a computerized population register. Created to provide demographic data, this tool has been used for a wide variety of research projects involving scholars from many disciplines - history, medicine, linguistics, anthropology, ...
The Guttmacher Institute was established in 1968, and is today the leading think tank on sexual and reproductive health issues in the United States and worldwide. It advances sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education. The Institute produces a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health, including International Family Planning Perspectives, The ...
