CSDE Seminar: Modelling Migration to Understand Demographic Change
Posted: 2/14/2024 (CSDE Seminar Series)
CSDE and co-sponsor The Population Health Initiative invites you to a seminar with James Raymer on Friday, Feb. 23rd from 12:30-1:30pm in PAR 360 and on Zoom (register here). Raymer is a Professor of Demography at the Australian National University and a visiting scholar with CSDE. His research focuses on developing innovative methodologies and analytical frameworks to study demographic processes. He is especially interested in understanding migration in situations where data are inadequate or missing, and has engaged in many interdisciplinary and international research collaborations on topics ranging from statistical estimation of migration flows to population estimation and forecasting.
Abstract: Flows of international migration are needed around the world to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge to this understanding is that nearly all of the countries in the world do not gather or produce reliable statistics on flows of international migration. The only information that are widely available represent immigrant population stocks measured at specific points in time – but these represent poor proxies for annual movements. In this talk, I discuss the issues and methodology I have developed for indirectly estimating annual flows of international migration using examples from recent work on Asia-Pacific migration and with the United Nations Population Division to infer age and sex patterns of net international migration.
Date: 02/23/2024
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: 360 PAR and on Zoom (register here)