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Developments in Demographic Forecasting

  • This open access book covers forecasting models for mortality, fertility, and migration
  • Provides new methods of population forecasting
  • Data and codes available for selected chapters

Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 49)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction

    • Nico Keilman, Stefano Mazzuco
    Pages 1-20Open Access
  3. Using Expert Elicitation to Build Long-Term Projection Assumptions

    • Patrice Dion, Nora Galbraith, Elham Sirag
    Pages 43-62Open Access
  4. Post-transitional Demography and Convergence: What Can We Learn from Half a Century of World Population Prospects?

    • Maria Castiglioni, Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna, Maria Letizia Tanturri
    Pages 63-87Open Access
  5. Projecting Proportionate Age–Specific Fertility Rates via Bayesian Skewed Processes

    • Emanuele Aliverti, Daniele Durante, Bruno Scarpa
    Pages 89-103Open Access
  6. A Three-Component Approach to Model and Forecast Age-at-Death Distributions

    • Ugofilippo Basellini, Carlo Giovanni Camarda
    Pages 105-129Open Access
  7. Alternative Forecasts of Danish Life Expectancy

    • Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Søren Kjæ rgaard, Marius D. Pascariu, José Manuel Aburto, Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Ugofilippo Basellini et al.
    Pages 131-151Open Access
  8. European Mortality Forecasts: Are the Targets Still Moving?

    • Nico Keilman, Sigve Kristoffersen
    Pages 179-192Open Access
  9. Bayesian Disaggregated Forecasts: Internal Migration in Iceland

    • Junni L. Zhang, John Bryant
    Pages 193-215Open Access
  10. Forecasting Origin-Destination-Age-Sex Migration Flow Tables with Multiplicative Components

    • James Raymer, Xujing Bai, Peter W. F. Smith
    Pages 217-242Open Access
  11. New Approaches to the Conceptualization and Measurement of Age and Ageing

    • Sergei Scherbov, Warren C. Sanderson
    Pages 243-258Open Access

About this book

This open access book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. For each component emerging methods to forecast them are presented. Moreover, instruments for forecasting evaluation are provided. Bayesian models, nonparametric models, cohort approaches, elicitation of expert opinion, evaluation of probabilistic forecasts are some of the topics covered in the book. In addition, the book is accompanied by complementary material on the web allowing readers to practice with some of the ideas exposed in the book. Readers are encouraged to use this material to apply the new methods to their own data. The book is an important read for demographers, applied statisticians, as well as other social scientists interested or active in the field of population forecasting. Professional population forecasters in statistical agencies will find useful new ideas in various chapters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Stefano Mazzuco

  • Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Nico Keilman

About the editors

Stefano Mazzuco is an Associate Professor in Demography at the Department of Statistical Sciences in the University of Padova, teaching both Demography and Statistics. He has also been a member of the PhD School in Statistics Board. He he has collaborated with the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the field of health inequality and its costs. He also has research interests in mortality pattern modelling, mainly focusing on age of death distribution modelling.

Nico Keilman is Professor of Demography at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He has taught Demography, Statistics, and Econometrics and has held research positions at Statistics Netherlands, the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, and Statistics Norway. He has more than forty years of research experience in the fields of population forecasting, modelling marriage and household dynamics, and mathematical demography. He was the editor of Demographic Research (2006-2011), and is member of the editorial boards of European Studies of Population, Population (Paris) and Demografie (Praha).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Developments in Demographic Forecasting

  • Editors: Stefano Mazzuco, Nico Keilman

  • Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42472-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42471-8Published: 29 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42474-9Published: 30 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42472-5Published: 28 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1877-2560

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 258

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Demography, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

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Softcover Book USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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