Ph.D. in Policy Analysis
Pardee RAND Graduate School
RAND Corporation
(2016 Spring) Introduction to Demography
Instructor information
Ernesto F. L. Amaral
Office location: m5152
Office hours: by appointment
Email: eamaral@rand.org
Course information
Meeting place: Wolf Conference Room (m1402)
Meeting time: Tuesday 1–4pm
Class 01 – March 29, 2016:
Introduction
Slides
Policy readings
Question
Extra readings for question
Examples of age-sex structure and other indicators
Extra readings
Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)
The Population Bomb? – by Retro Report – The New York Times
Break It Down – The Pop Song – Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Class 02 – April 5, 2016:
Periods and cohorts
Slides
Person-years, rates, probabilities
Lexis diagram and other packages in R
Mortality
Slides
Policy readings
Question
Extra readings for question
Example of standardization
Example of life table
MortPak – The United Nations Software Package for Mortality Measurement
Site
Extra readings
Class 03 – April 12, 2016:
Fertility
Slides
Policy readings
Question
Extra readings for question
Example of fertility rates
Extra readings
Class 04 – April 19, 2016:
Migration
Slides
Policy readings
Question
Extra readings for question
TableCurve 2D – Automated Curve Fitting Analysis
Site
Examples of modeling migration rates
TableCurve2D by Prof. James Raymer
SPSS
Excel
Extra readings
Class 05 – April 26, 2016:
Age transition and projection
Slides
Policy readings
Question
Extra readings for question
Demographic Analysis and Population Projection System (DAPPS)
U.S. Census Bureau
Site
PADIS-INT – A web-based population projection software
China Population and Development Research Center (CPDRC)
Site
1980–2010 Brazilian data in PADIS-INT format
Extra readings
Extra Resources:
Population: A lively introduction
Joseph A. McFalls – Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Site
Population
Science special issue
Site
Material
Demography: Forecasting mortality, fertility, migration and population data
Rob J. Hyndman – Monash University, Australia
R package
Site
Applied Demography Toolbox
Department of Demography
University of California Berkeley
Site
United Nations Manuals
Techniques for Demographic Estimation
Material
Population Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations
Site
Population.io
The World Population Project
Site
Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact-based worldview
Site
World Bank Data
Site
Beta site
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Minnesota Population Center (MPC)
University of Minnesota
Site
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Site
PRB DataFinder
Site
Population and Poverty Research Network (PopPov)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Site
American Life Panel
RAND Corporation
Site
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Site
U.S. Census Bureau
Site
American Community Survey (ACS)
U.S. Census Bureau
Site
American FactFinder
U.S. Census Bureau
Site
Current Population Survey (CPS)
U.S. Census Bureau
Site
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
U.S. Census Bureau
Site
National Vital Statistics System
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Site
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Data Visualizations
Site
The Human Mortality Database
Site
Latin American Human Mortality Database
Site
The Human Fertility Database
Site
Human Fertility Collection
Site
European Fertility Project
Office of Population Research (OPR)
Princeton University
Site
Pew Research Center Data
Site
Brookings Institute
Site
World Migration Map
Site
Foreign-Born Population: A Nation of Overlapping Diasporas
Digital Scholarship Lab
University of Richmond
Site
Internal Migration Around the GlobE (IMAGE)
School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management
The University of Queensland Australia
Site
Mexican Migration Project (MPP)
Princeton University & University of Guadalajara
Site
Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS)
Iberoamerican University (UIA)
Center fo Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)
Duke University
Site
The New Immigrant Survey
Princeton University
Site
