Centre for Demographic Studies

Population patterns and trends

The Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) works towards several objectives. First and foremost, it focuses its research on furthering our knowledge and understanding of demographic patterns and trends in the Catalan, Spanish and international context through basic and applied research. It also provides training in demography through teaching programmes and courses aimed at professionals from different fields and works to disseminate demographic knowledge and tools in the field of academia, government and social organisations.

The CED has 17 lines of research grouped into three research areas: 1) Families, Inequality and Social Change, 2) Globalisation, Migrations and Space, and 3) Health and Ageing. With regard to applied demography, its activity focuses on methodological and data processing studies, sociodemographic studies and population projections and models.

The CED offers specific postgraduate programmes in demography in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The doctoral programme carries the Spanish distinction of quality and the master’s programme is backed by a network of collaborating European demography research centres.

With the only specialised library in Spain dedicated to demography and population studies, the CED also provides the scientific community and the general public with an important demographic databank and access to sociodemographic data through the Social Explorer platform. In Europe, the CED is responsible for the Integrated European Population Microdata (IEPM), a Europe-wide harmonised census microdatabase, which is being developed in collaboration with the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Population Center (www.iecm-project.org).

Structure

Fundació

Founded

1984

Field

Social sciences

Keywords

Catalonia, Censuses, Demography, Europe, Family, Fertility, Gender, Geography, Health, History, Migration, Mortality, Population, Registers, Social Inequality, Spain, Surveys, World

Board of Trustees/Executive Council

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Generalitat de Catalunya.

Networks

ACER - Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca

RIS3CAT Fields

Sustainable Development Goals

Contact

Campus de la UAB, Ed. E2
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès
(Barcelona)

Tel. +34 935 813 060

UE Identifier (PIC) 997629384

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