Joint Eurostat/UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projections. Abstract Submission Deadline 15 May 2013

Joint Eurostat/UNECE
WORK SESSION ON DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS
Organised in cooperation with Istat
(Rome, 29-31 October 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Eurostat and UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) are co-organisers, with
the support of Istat (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), of a Work Session on Demographic
Projections. The meeting will be hosted by Istat and held in Rome on 29-31 October 2013. The
meeting is part of a series of meetings jointly organized in this area by Eurostat and UNECE.

OBJECTIVE OF THE MEETING
The objective of the Work Session is to bring together policy makers, demographic researchers
from the National Statistical Institutes as well as from other national and international
organisations, academics, producers and users of population projections in order to:
- review and discuss the different uses of demographic projections and the current practices
at national and international level
- illustrate research approaches and innovative methodologies
- improve the communication between policy makers and demographers and producers of
population projections

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Nico Keilman, University of Oslo
Prof. Tommy Bengtsson, University of Lund.

TOPICS (non exhaustive list)
- National and international practices on demographic projections
- Actual and potential use of demographic projections at national and international level
- Assumptions on future fertility, mortality and migration and their interactions
- Impact of economic crises on projections assumptions setting
- Consistency between macroeconomic assumptions and demographic scenarios
- Small population and sub-national population projections
- Households projections
- New methodologies and stochastic approaches
- Beyond population projections by age and sex: inclusion of additional population
characteristics

UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE - CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS
STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (Eurostat)
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI STATISTICA (Istat)

COORDINATION COMMITTEE
Giampaolo Lanzieri, Eurostat
Marco Marsili, Istat
Paolo Valente, UNECE

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Elisabetta Barbi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Francesco Billari, University of Oxford
Graziella Caselli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Joshua Goldstein, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Rebecca Graziani, Bocconi University of Milano
Maria Graça Magalhães, Statistics Portugal
Valerio Terra Abrami, Istat

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Alessia Aubert, Istat
Giorgia Capacci, Istat
Anna Stoppa, Istat
Gianni Corsetti, Istat
Rosemarie Olsson, Eurostat
Mijidgombo Oyunjargal, UNECE
Cinzia Pellicanò, Istat
Bruna Tabanella, Istat

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
The working language of the work session is English. Authors willing to contribute a paper to the
Work Session should send an abstract in English of approximately 500 words by 15 May 2013 to
the following email address: estat-worksession-demproj@ec.europa.eu
The abstract should include:
- the title of the paper;
- each author’s name and e-mail address (please specify a contact author);
- each author's institutional affiliation, including academic department, if appropriate.
- a clear description of the problems/issues addressed in the paper;
- a short description of the data and methods used;
The Scientific Committee will identify among the papers submitted the invited papers, that will be
presented at the meeting. Authors of all papers will be notified of the category of the paper (invited
or supporting) by e-mail by 31 May 2013. Final version of the papers in Word - not exceeding 20
pages in length (including tables, references, annexes, etc.) - must be sent by 30 September 2013
by email to:
estat-worksession-demproj@ec.europa.eu
Final papers can be submitted in English, French and Russian, but will not be translated and will
be disseminated in the original language only. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in English
to facilitate their dissemination among the participants in the meeting. If papers are submitted in
French or Russian, authors are kindly invited to provide a 1-2 pages abstract in English.
Invited and supporting papers will be made available on the website maintained by UNECE at:
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2013.10.projections.html

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 May 2013
Notification to authors of the category of papers: 31 May 2013
Deadline for registration of participants: 10 September 2013
Deadline for submission of papers: 30 September 2013
Information on registration can be found in the Information note available at:
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2013.10.projections.html