Data bases and statistical systems: demography

TY - CHAP

T1 - Data bases and statistical systems: demography

AU - Kreyenfeld, M.

AU - Willekens, F.J.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This article deals with the availability of large-scale data for demographic analysis. The main sources of data that demographers work with are censuses data, microcensus data, population registers, other administrative data, survey data, and big data. Data of this kind can be used to generate demographic rates and study demographic processes, such as family formation, marriage, divorce, residential mobility, and death. The advantages and pitfalls of different types of data are summarized.

AB - This article deals with the availability of large-scale data for demographic analysis. The main sources of data that demographers work with are censuses data, microcensus data, population registers, other administrative data, survey data, and big data. Data of this kind can be used to generate demographic rates and study demographic processes, such as family formation, marriage, divorce, residential mobility, and death. The advantages and pitfalls of different types of data are summarized.

KW - administrative data

KW - big data

KW - deaths

KW - births

KW - demographic rates

KW - demography

KW - marriages

KW - migration

KW - population registers

KW - residential moves

KW - survey data

KW - vital events

KW - vital statistics

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.41013-5

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.41013-5

M3 - Chapter

VL - 8

SP - 735

EP - 741

BT - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral SciencesInternational Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

A2 - Wright, James D.

PB - Elsevier B.V.

ER -