Barcelona Summer School of Demography | Module 2: Demography with R

About

The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) program is a comprehensive four-week course focusing exclusively on the R statistical language. It is structured into four distinct modules, with each module spanning a week (20hs), designed to provide an in-depth understanding of different aspects of the R language: statistical and demographic analysis, data visualization and spatial analysis. Applicants are invited to register in either the full four-week BSSD course or select individual modules that align with their specific learning needs and interests.
Module 2 of the Barcelona Demography Summer School seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of key demographic methods and their practical implementation within the R environment.
This module will cover the following content:
Day 1: Basic demographic measures, the Lexis diagram, rates, probabilities and proportions.
Day 2: Life table, life expectancy, the Human Mortality Database (HMD).
Day 3: Standardization of demographic measures, rate decomposition (Kitagawa method), life expectancy decomposition (Arriaga method).
Day 4: population growth, population models, the Leslie matrix.
Day 5: Introduction to population forecast, the Lee-Carter model, review of the module

Course leader

Tim Riffe is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the University of the Basque Country – UPV/EHU. His theoretical work focuses on population renewal and temporal relationships over the life course. His empirical work uses original methodological approaches to study relationships between longevity and health in ageing populations, based on both administrative and survey data.

Target group

Master and PhD Students, Researchers, Data Journalists and people how work with population data in general

Course aim

Students will learn the necessary theoretical background and the programming implementation in R of key Demographic Methods

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