Projects

SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

• Research in the Social Demography department

• THE EARLY STAGES OF THE LIFE COURSE

Main projects

• Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective (REPRO)

• The timing of life: uncerstanding cross-national differences in the organisation of the life course in Europe (LIFETIMING)

• Demograhpy of young adults and inter-generational transfer

• Nuptiality in the Netherlands, 1815-1970

Other projects

• Life-course trajectories and well being among young adults

• Second demographic transition

• Preferences, values and norms regarding the formation of relationships and fertility behaviour

• Households in Transition (HIT) [concluded]

• Fertility intensions and outcomes [concluded]

• Hofstee archives [concluded]

• THE LATER STAGES OF THE LIFE COURSE

Main projects

• The process of retirement: a dynamic and multi-actor perspective

• Activating Senior Potential in Ageing Europe (ASPA)

Other projects

• Getting a grip on extending working life

• Re-entering the labour force by retirees

• Labour force participation of the elderly

• Emigration and labour market [concluded]

• What determines whether employers employ older workers? [concluded]

• Early retirement [concluded]

• Knowledge dissemination in demography [concluded]

• New working arrangments for elderly workers [concluded]

• INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS

Main projects

• Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS)

• Generations and Gender Programme: A European research infrastructure on the causes and consequences of demographic development (GENDER2007)

• How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being and social integration: A multilinks framework (MULTILINKS)

• Major Ageing and Gender Issues in Europe (MAGGIE)

Other projects

• Antecedents and consequences of childlessness

• Intergenerational transmission of work-family patterns and exchange of support between parents and children [concluded]

• Loneliness among the elderly [concluded]

• Support norms: being prepared to give and receive [concluded]

• European landscape of variations in intergenerational solidarity (ELVIS) [concluded]

• POLICY CONTEXTS

Main projects

• Population Issues in the Netherlands (WPRB 2009)

• Demography Network of the EU Social Situation Observatory (DemoNet)

Other projects

• Monitor Social Situation in the European Union (Observatory) [concluded]

• Survey of opinions and attitudes on population issues [concluded]

• Population policy acceptance in Europe [concluded]

• Demography of Jews [concluded]

• Demography of Dutch Indonesians [concluded]

PROJECTIONS, MIGRATION & HEALTH DEPARTMENT

• Research in the Projections, Migration & Health department

• POPULATION PROJECTIONS AND MODELS

Main projects

• Bridging the micro-macro gap in population forecasting (MicMac)

• Social Statistical Information System and Population Census Aruba (ARUBA2010)

Other projects

• New housing development, housing vacancy chains and segregation

• Demography of firms - a simulation model

• LIPRO multistate projection model

• Historical geographical information system Dutch cadastral maps 1832

• Future elderly living conditions in Europe (FELICIE) [concluded]

• Demography and Vocational Education and Training (VET) [concluded]

• Simulation models for manpower planning in the civil service [concluded]

• Ageing of the police [concluded]

• Internal migration and migration motives [concluded]

• Eurostat's national and regional population statistics [concluded]

• Research and integration data sources Aruba [concluded]

• MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION

Main projects

• Modelling migration and migrant populations (MIMOSA)

• Demographic and Migratory Flows affecting European Regions and Cities (DEMIFER)

• The integration of the European second generation (TIES)

• Scenarios multi-ethnic society and immigration (SMS)

Other projects

• Estimation of international migration flows in Europe

• Partner choice and union formation of second-generation migrants (RTN-TIES)

• International migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE)

• Asylum seekers and refugees in Europe

• Towards Harmonised European Statistics on International Migration (THESIM) [concluded]

• Push and pull factors of international migration [concluded]

• HEALTH

Main projects

• Financial resource flows for population and AIDS activities (RF)

• Demography-Epidemiology-Actuary (DEA)

• Assessing Needs for Care in European Nations (ANCIEN)

• The long-term development of public health

• The long-term impact of famine on health using historical data (FAMINE)

Other projects

• Mortality differences in Europe (Atlas)

• Decomposition of life expectancy changes by cause of death

• Infant mortality in Europe

• Religious denomination and infant and child mortality

• Poverty, gender and the HIV risk behaviour in Sub Saharan Africa [concluded]

• Millennium Development Goals for peoples to the concern of UNHCR [concluded]