Demography links

The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.

Population Europe provides new insights, precise facts and evidence-based findings at the forefront of population and policy research. Reliable information is essential as responding to demographic change is one of the most fundamental challenges driving Europe’s future.

The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council conducts research in three areas: HIV and AIDS; poverty, gender, and youth; and reproductive health.

The Population Association of America (PAA) is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human race through research of problems related to human population. PAA members include demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals, and other individuals interested in research and education in the population field.

The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the field of environment, nature and spatial planning.

The International Max Planck Research School for Demography (IMPRSD) is Europe's largest collaborative international program of research training in population studies. The School is not a degree-awarding body, but a network of leading researchers who work together to provide a more complete set of high-level courses and associated research supervision than any one institution can provide alone. IMPRSD provides a unique opportunity for research training, combining coursework and research. The members of the School's Consortium are international experts carrying out research at the leading edge of demography. Some are based in universities, others in research centres. Under the aegis of the School the members of the Consortium provide doctoral-level instruction and research supervision to students. By this means students are able to move between institutions associated with the School, and to come from outside, in order to receive the very best training available. Founded in 2000, the School receives core support from the Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). It does not charge fees, and makes available a number of partial and full scholarships to enable students to attend courses. The largest number of courses is offered at the MPIDR in Rostock, others are given by Consortium members at various locations around Europe.

The European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) is a unique, international and interdisciplinary forum for population studies with a special focus on Europe. EAPS is an independent scientific association of individual members and Affiliated Institutions. EAPS was founded in 1983. EAPS organizes the European Population Conference which takes place every two years, as well as many other activities.

Statistics Netherlands is responsible for collecting and processing data in order to publish statistics to be used in practice, by policymakers and for scientific research. In addition to its responsibility for (official) national statistics, Statistics Netherlands also has the task of producing European (community) statistics.

The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is a recognised leading centre of expertise in the fields of health, nutrition and environmental protection. The RIVM works mainly for the Dutch government.

Elektronic database of Statistics Netherlands.

A Multi-Actor, Multi-Method Panel Study on Solidarity in Family Relationships.

Changes in household structure may have profound consequences for a wide range of areas in demography and social policy. Household projection models developed in demography over the past few decades are primarily of the headship rate type, in which the dynamic processes of household formation and dissolution which underlie changes in household structure, essentially are treated as a black box. Back in 1988, NIDI started a pioneering study in order to develop a dynamic household projection model which explicitly focusses on the flows underlying household changes. The model, called LIPRO ('LIfestyle PROjections'), is based on the methodology of multistate demography, but includes several extensions to solve the particular problems of household modelling.

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. It is the work of two teams of researchers in the USA and Germany with the help of financial backers and scientific collaborators from around the world. The database seeks to provide open, international access to these data. At present the database contains detailed population and mortality data for 37 countries or areas.

The database of Eurostat. Eurostat offers a whole range of data on among others finance and social conditions of populations in within the EU countries. Governments, businesses, the education sector, journalists and the public can use these data for their work and daily life.

DEMOS is a bulletin on population and society. DEMOS is issued by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). DEMOS has ten issues a year, and is aimed at a broad, general audience in political, policy and education circles. DEMOS is published in Dutch. However, the bulletin occasionally appears in English.