Links of Interest to Demographers
Index
Journals, Newsletters and Books
- Popline - database of reproductive health literature, John Hopkins University
- Population Index - contains a bibliography of books, journal articles, working papers, other materials on population topics, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
- Meta-index of Demographic Working and Discussion Papers, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Demographic Research - peer-reviewed journal of the population sciences, published by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Demography - publishes research on social sciences, geography, history, biology, statistics, epidemiology, and public health, Population Association of America (PAA)
- European Journal of Population, SpringerLink
- International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health (formerly International Family Planning Perspectives), Guttmacher Institute
- Genus - Journal of Population Sciences, University of Rome
- Health Transition Review, Health Transition Centre
- Population, Space and Place, formerly known as 'International Journal of Population Geography', Wiley
- International Migration Review, Wiley-Blackwell
- Journal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge Journals
- Journal of Population Economics
- Journal of Population Research, Wiley
- Mathematical Population Studies, Taylor & Francis
- ONS publications online (Population Trends, Health Statistics Quarterly, etc.)
- People and the Planet
- Population, INED
- Population Bulletins, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
- Population and Development Review, Population Council, USA
- Populations et Sociétiés - monthly science journal published in French and English, INED
- Population Studies, Population Investigation Committee (PIC)
- Studies in Family Planning, Population Council, USA
- PAA Affairs, Population Association of America
- Population Newsletter, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, USA
- Journals and newsletters via the UN
- State of World Population 2010 (and earlier years), UNFPA
- The State of the World's Children, UNICEF
- East-West Center publications on population and health, East-West Center, Hawaii, USA
- US Census Bureau publications on population
Information over the Web
- Intute, web resources for students and researchers
- UK National Statistics Online
- Survey Question Bank, UK Data Archive at the University of Essex (originally the ESRC Question Bank run by the University of Surrey)
- Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM) - research centre based at the University of Bristol
- ESRC Research Methods Programme, 2002-2007
- jobs.ac.uk, online job vacancies in science, research, academic and administration in the UK and abroad
- ELDIS - Development Information On-line, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
- E-Library for Global Welfare - collection of online resources for international and comparative policy analysis, research and teaching
- Fertility and Family Surveys, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Population Unit - surveys conducted in the 1990s in 23 member States of the UNECE, with micro-data available for research
- UN Population Information Network - a guide to population information on UN system websites
- UN World Population Prospects Database
- WHO HIV & STI Epidemiological Fact Sheets
- WHO - data and statistics
- The World Gazetter - provides a comprehensive set of population data and related statistics
- National Institute on Aging Demography Centers (NIA), conducts new research and training in aging
- Census of India
- US Census Bureau International DataBase (IDB)
- Data Finder - database with hundreds of variables for the US and the world, Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
- Reproductive Health Gateway - provides health professionals with an easy way to search for relevant and reliable reproductive health information, Knowledge for Health, USA
- Zunia - portal for knowledge exchange among developing professionals worldwide and, Development Gateway - a non-profit organisation that increases the transparency and accessibility of information on international development efforts
- Family Planning Manager's Electronic Resource Center (Management Sciences for Health)
- Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
- CIA World Factbook
- US Department of State country background notes - provide facts about the land, people history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty
Data Archives
- UK Data Archive - UK collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities
- Census Information Gateway and the ESRC/JISC Census of Population Homepage
- The National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments
- Eurodata Archive (Centre for European Social Research, Mannheim)
- Eurobarometer Opinion Surveys Data Service, European Commission
- Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
- Office of Population Research at Princeton University Data Archive (OPR) (Public access to most holdings, including WFS datasets)
- Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), The World Bank
- Family Life Surveys (FLS) (RAND Corporation)
- Integrated Public Use Microdata Series - International, University of Minnesota, USA - census microdata for social and economic research
- African Census Analysis Project
- UNEP / GRID Spatial Data Clearinghouse - United Nations Environment Programme / Global Resource Information Database
- National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, NACDA, USA
- Human Mortality Database and Human Life Table Database
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Earth Institute, Columbia University
- Disc and Information Services Center (DISC - formerly known as DPLS) - resources relating to Social Science Data (University of Wisconsin)
Software
Learned Societies, Professional Associations, Research Networks and Scientific Meetings
Population Research Centres
- Department of Social Policy, LSE, London
- Migration Research Unit, University College London
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies,Institute of Education, London
- Institute of Gerontology, Kings College, London
- One Plus One, London
- National Centre for Social Research, London (formerly SCPR)
- Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
- Institute for Social and Economic Research, (ISER), University of Essex. Has information on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)
- Cathie Marsh Centre for Census & Survey Research, University of Manchester
- Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
- Oxford Institute of Aging
- Social Statistics, University of Southampton
- Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, University of Aberdeen
- Population at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
- Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Centre de Recherche en Deombraphie et Societes, (DEMO), Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium (website mainly in French with some translation)
- Department of Social Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki
- INED, Paris
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
- Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
- Demographic Studies Centre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Sweden
- Institute of Population Studies, Hacettepe University, Turkey
- Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo
- African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
- School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Centre for Population Studies, University of Zimbabwe
- CELADE (UN Latin American & Caribbean Demographic Centre)
- Centre for Regional Development and Planning of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CEDEPLAR, UFMG, Brazil
- Centro Centroamericano de Poblacion, CCP, University of Costa Rica
- CEDDU, El Colegio de México
- International Centre for Diarrhooeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh
- International Institute for Population Sciences (Deemed University), (IIPS), Mumbai, India
- Indian Institute of Health Management Research (Society), Jaipur, India
- Central Department of Population Studies, (CDPS), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
- College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Institute for Population and Social Research, (IPSR), Mahidol University, Thailand
- The Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute, (ADSRI), Australian National University
- Demography & Population Studies department, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Departement de demographie, University of Montreal, Canada (website in French)
- Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley
- Population Studies & Training Center, (PSTC), Brown University, USA
- Population Research Center, (PRC), The University of Chicago, USA
- Population and Development Program, (PDP), Cornell University, USA
- Center for Demography and Population Health, (CDPH), Florida State University, USA
- Johns Hopkins Population Center and Population, Family and Reproductive Health, (PFRH), John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
- Population Studies Center, (PSC), Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA
- Carolina Population Center, (CPC), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Population Studies Center, (PSC), University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences
- Population Research Institute, (PRI), Pennsylvania State University, (part of the Social Science Research Institute), USA
- The Office of Population Research at Princeton University, (OPR), USA
- RAND Labor and Population, RAND Corporation is a non-profit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis
- Center for Policy Research, (CPR), Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA
- Population Research Centre, (PRC) University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, (CSDA) University of Washington, USA
- Center for Demography and Ecology, (CDE) University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Demographic & Social Analysis, (DASA) University of California, Irvine, USA
Government Agencies (UK and overseas)
Foundations, Consultancies and NGOs
International Organizations
Learning Resources
Demographic White Pages
Miscellaneous
