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Research subject Formal Demography

Formal demography is the field in demographic research that is devoted to the development and application of new methods for the analyses of demographic data.

These data typically cover different dimensions of individual life-course trajectories and involve elements of time to event. They can often be nested in different levels of observation and be depicted across different spatial units of observation. 

Related research subject

Demography
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Researchers

Kieron James Barclay

Researcher, Docent in Sociology

Department of Sociology
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kieron.barclay@sociology.su.se
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Johan Dahlberg

Affiliate Researcher

Department of Sociology
Johan Dahlberg @ Stockholm University Demography Unit
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Sven Drefahl

Senior Lecturer, Docent

Department of Sociology
08-16 22 87
Sven Drefahl. Photo: Stockholm University
sven.drefahl@sociology.su.se
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Martin Kolk

Docent, Senior Lecturer

Department of Sociology
Martin Kolk
martin.kolk@sociology.su.se
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Eleonora Mussino

Researcher, Docent

Department of Sociology
08-16 20 04
Eleonora Mussino. Photo: Leila Zoubir/Stockholm University
eleonora.mussino@sociology.su.se
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Ben Wilson

Researcher, Docent

Department of Sociology
Ben Wilson. Photo: Leila Zoubir/Stockholm University
ben.wilson@sociology.su.se
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Research group

Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA)

The Department of Sociology is home to the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), an international group of scholars and doctoral students, working on many facets of population dynamics. It offers a Master’s program in Demography and a PhD program in Sociological Demography.

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Research projects

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In our project we examine how changing economic circumstances may influence different demographic outcomes, using Longitudinal micro-level data for 1800-2007 for Sweden and Taiwan. A central question in demography is the degree to which marriage, fertility and mortality is influenced by economic cycles.

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This project examines and discusses ways of improving current estimation methods using Swedish total population register data.

Demography diagram, illustration.
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The Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic Research (SUNDEM) builds on the potential for top-class demographic research as provided by the individual, longitudinal, and spatial data available in Sweden’s population registers and the system of administrative registers that builds on the population registers.

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Courses and programmes

Departments and centres

Stockholm University Demography Unit

Department of Sociology

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