The Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy at the University of Southampton School of Social Sciences, in conjunction with the ESRC are holding a Seminar on Fertility and Poverty, focusing on micro and macro linkages.

The seminar takes from on the 28th and 29th of January.

A limited number of bursaries are available to UK students wishing to attend and willing to submit a poster. the closing date for bursaries is 4th January.

Details regarding registration, the programme and bursaries can be found here.

The University of Southhampton are hosting a workshop on ‘fertility and poverty: micro and macro linkages’ from 28th to 29th January 2010.

Papers are being invited that address the following:

i) New evidence on the linkages between fertility and poverty (at both macro and micro levels)
ii) Barriers to contraceptive use and safe abortion amongst those living in poverty
iii) Evidence on the intergenerational flow of wealth and high fertility as insurance for old-age security hypothesis
iv) Interventions and strategies for meeting high unmet need for family planning among the under-served that have worked (e.g. male involvement, voucher schemes, social marketing)
v) Methodological advances in measuring unmet need for family planning

more details here

The University of Southampton has two upcoming courses in “small area estimation” run out of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute by Danny Pfeffermann and Pedro Silva.

The first course “Small Area Estimation” runs from 12th to 14th October 2009.

This is followed by “Advanced Methods for Small Area Estimation” taking place 15th – 16th February 2010.

Further information is available here.

The newly established ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton is pleased to announce a new PhD studentship in demography.

The studentship would suit a person with good computing skills and an interest in demographic measurement, who has, or expects to have, a postgraduate degree in demography, or a related social science or quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.

The project is part of a wider programme of research into the determinants of recent fertility and partnership trends in the UK. The specific purpose of the PhD project is to generate updated time series of period parity progression indicators for Great Britain. It is an ESRC +3 studentship linked to the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change, where the student will work under the direction of Professor Máire Ní Bhrolcháin. The PhD project will use the combined file of General Household Survey maternity histories, supplemented by own child reconstructions in the most recent period, to extend previous sets of estimates and will evaluate these measures against alternative estimates and sources.

This ESRC award pays all University tuition fees, plus an annual maintenance stipend, set at £13,290 for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Further details of the project, of eligibility and of how to apply, are available at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/socstats/funding/cpcstudentship.html

Informal inquiries may be made to Professor Máire Ní Bhrolcháin (M.Ni-Bhrolchain@soton.ac.uk)

The deadline for applications is the 15th May 2009.

Interviews will be held on 28th May 2009.

BSPS day meeting – Sponsored in collaboration with the ESRC

Poverty and Reproductive Health in Poor Countries: Issues, Measurement & Evidence

Venue: New Academic Building (NABL09), LSE

Friday 29th May, 2009

Background

The burden of out-of-pocket expenditure related to reproductive health service

use remains largely unexplored in poor country contexts. The knock-on effect of

poverty on reproductive health is difficult to quantify given limited crosssectional

and longitudinal evidence as well as lack of representative data on

health related expenditure at the individual level. Apart from the indirect costs,

there is a lack of evidence on user-fees and institutional subsidies in the public

and private sector and how these influence treatment/ care seeking behaviour,

both short-term and long-term. Generating evidence through cross-country

studies is essential to design effective and sustainable policies to enhance

reproductive wellbeing of individuals.

Aims

1. To examine evidence on the pathways through which poverty affects

reproductive health at the individual, household, institutional and community

levels in poor countries, with a regional focus on Asia and Africa.

2. To provide a forum for debate on the short- and long-term impact of poverty

on reproductive wellbeing

3. To discuss the challenges in measuring and interpreting empirical evidence

on poverty and reproductive health

This day meeting is open to all, and is free-of-charge but there is only limited space available.

However, PRE-REGISTRATION is essential, also for access to New Academic Building

and for security related reasons – please email Ms. Anne Shepherd (pic@lse.ac.uk) or

phone: 020 7955 7666.

2011 Census research: new data, linkage and outputs

Date: 13 May 2009
Location: Royal Statistical Society, London

This one-day conference showcases the work of nine research projects funded during 2008-09 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). These have focused on developments in 2011 census data products, innovations in census data linkage through time and emerging web-based technologies for census data dissemination. The day is intended to inform debate concerning future research priorities surrounding the delivery of data from the 2011 UK censuses and the requirements of contemporary census research users.

09.30 Registration
Chair of meeting – Prof Mike Batty, University College London

10.00 Welcome and overview – Prof David Martin, University of  Southampton

2011 data developments

10.10 Towards 2011 output geographies: adapting and evaluating automated zone design methods for maintaining the 2001 output geographies – Samantha Cockings, University of Southampton

10.35 Microdata, research facilities and work practice in the UK Social Science Community Census data linkage – Dr Jo Wathan, University of Manchester

11.00 Developing Analyses of the England & Wales, Scottish and Northern Ireland Census Longitudinal Studies: health and mortality as a case study – Harriet Young, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
11.25 Coffee

Data linkage

11.45 Testing the feasibility of extending the Scottish Longitudinal Study back through time – Prof Paul Boyle, University of St Andrews

12.10 Web-based Spatio-temporal Interpolator for Census Area Statistics – Prof Nigel Walford and Dr Shaozhong Shi, Kingston University

12.35 Questions to presenters
12.50 Lunch

Emerging technologies for data dissemination

13.45 A Census data feed research network – Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, University of Leeds

14.10 Creating a Census (Meta)Data Feed – Justin Hayes, University of Manchester

14.35 DiaD – Data Integration and Dissemination – James Reid, University of Edinburgh

15.00 Census Geographic Information Visualisation (Censusgiv) – Dr Pablo Mateos, University College London

15.25 Discussion led by panel

16.00 Close

The meeting will take place at the Royal Statistical Society headquarters, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX

The following registration charges apply:
£20 RSS Retired or Student Fellows
£22 RSS CStat/GradStat
£25 RSS Fellows
£30 RSS Linked Associates
£40 None of the above
email conference@rss.org.uk   for a booking form

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