Links

Web-based publications

  • Tools for Demographic Estimation. Moultrie, T. A., Dorrington, R. E., Hill A. G., Hill, K., Timæus, I. M. and Zaba B. (eds), International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 2013.
  • Population Analysis for Policies and Programmes (Distance learning materials in demographic methods produced for the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, by the Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, with funding from UNFPA).

Databases

Software and reproducible code

  • convertCMC (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3557306) Stata routines to convert DHS and other century-month codes to Stata dates, imputing unknown days of the month
  • oRphanhood (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4889480) R script to calculate life table survivorship from the proportions of people by age with living mothers or fathers and vice versa
  • APCplot Plot age-period-cohort rates and life courses on a Lexis grid of equilateral triangles using R (To install use:  devtools::install_github(“BugBunny/APCplot”); requires Ternary)

Bibliographies and citation data (there’s a whole lot of indexing going on!)