Videos

The GGP is now ready for a new round of data collection, with an improved new questionnaire. Want to know what are the key innovations and what will be possible to know? In this webinar, Dr Tom Emery, Deputy Director of the GGP presented an overview of the new questionnaire, how it can be adapted to different languages and contexts and what it will measure in terms of Sustainable Development Goals.

Five years after the so-called migration crisis of 2015, researchers evaluate its main impacts on governance: Have the legal and administrative provisions met the challenges? How can we improve to be better prepared for future immigration waves?

This webinar is divided into two parts. In the first part, the QuantMig Data Inventory on stock and flow data on migration towards and within the EU is introduced

On 11 December, the QuantMig project hosted a discussion with Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO), Mathias Czaika (Danube University), and Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO), moderated by Jakub Bijak (University of Southampton) about migration studies moving away from a more theoretical approach to empirical propositions that have a strong evidence base.

 

This open-access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes.

Check out the book now!

 

SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is a multidisciplinary longitudinal survey for the study of the social, economic and health situation of people aged 50 and older in Europe. In 2004, SHARE started collecting representative data of the generation 50+ in eleven countries. Today, data from 27 European countries and Israel is available. SHARE has collected data from 140,000 respondents in 380,000 interviews.

What insights into the changes in the lives of individuals and families does a social science research infrastructure like the GGP offer researchers, policy makers and civil society?  This animated introduction to the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) explains the purpose, function and value of a social science research infrastructure to the domains of public policy and research. To access the GGP open source datasets register as a GGP User here.

On 9th December 2014, the Nobel Week Dialogue was held in Stockholm. Representatives from politics, society and the scientific community – among them many Nobel Laureates – came together to engage in dialogue on aging society. MPIDR-Director Jim Vaupel took an active part in the discussions. The theme of the third Nobel Week Dialogue was "The Age to Come - New scientific and cultural perspectives on ageing". Watch all the speeches here. MPIDR-Director James W. Vaupel gave a talk on the demographic consequences of an aging society, his presentation starts at 13:30.

Families considerably changed since the 1960s : smaller sizes, diversity of couple status, increasing number of divorces and blended families, more women in work... INED celebrated its 70th anniversary with special conferences, September 22, 2015. In this roundtable animated by the journalist Thierry Guerrier, the participants were : Francesco Billari (University of Oxford), Sophie Plassart (juge of family affairs - TGI de PARIS), Irène Théry (EHESS), and Laurent Toulemon (Ined). Realisation: Odile Gras © Institut national d’études démographiques

The population in Europe is continuously changing. People are living longer, having few children, and more people are moving to Europe. All of these changes contribute to demographic change. It is important, particularly for younger generations, to learn about demography and how it affects their lives. This video provides a short introduction to the field of demography and the app "A Life Journey". This app is a fun, interactive way to learn more about demography and demographic change in Europe.