December 10, 2015 | News | Call for papers

2nd Human Fertility Database Symposium

The Human Fertility Data Project team invites contributions to the 2nd HFD Symposium on

Population-level fertility research: State of the art

The objectives of the Symposium is to present and promote research on fertility changes and their determinants — primarily based on the Human Fertility Database (HFD) and the Human Fertility Collection (HFC). The Symposium also aims to discuss methodological challenges associated with producing and analysing population-level fertility data. In addition to the scientific programme, we invite participants to provide feedback and suggestions on the HFD and the HFC contents, methods and setup, and the directions of its further development.

Paper proposals
Empirical and methodological papers are equally welcome. Topics of the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

Population heterogeneity and aggregate measures
Data and methods in population-level fertility research
Measuring fertility level and timing: new data, new approaches
Fertility modelling and forecasting
Fertility across time and space
Low and very low fertility
Fertility responses to economic and other shocks
Global fertility change
Fertility differentials by social status, education, gender, ethnicity, migration status, religion, and other characteristics
Determinants of fertility change and variation
Cohort fertility change and parity distribution
Childlessness

If you are interested in contributing to the 2nd HFD Symposium, please send your abstract or draft paper to the HFD (info@humanfertility.org) with CC to Aiva Jasilioniene (Jasilioniene@demogr.mpg.de) by 23 February 2016. Please make sure that to include: the provisional title, the full name(s) of each author, the affiliation (full name of organization and department), and the e-mail address(es). Applicants will be notified if their paper has been accepted by 15 March 2016.

Place and date of the seminar

The Symposium is scheduled for 23-24 June 2016. It will take place at the WissenschaftsForum at Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, where an office of the Max Planck Society is located. The full address is Wissenschaftsforum, Markgrafenstrasse 37, 10117 Berlin.

There are no participation fees, but the participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

About the HFD Project

The Human Fertility Data Project is a joint project of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), aiming to provide free and user-friendly access to a variety of fertility data. The Project consists of two companion databases, based at the MPIDR in Rostock, Germany: the Human Fertility Database (www.humanfertility.org) and the Human Fertility Collection (www.fertilitydata.org).

The 1st HFD symposium was held in Rostock in 2011. Brief information about this event can be found at http://www.humanfertility.org/cgi-bin/symposium.php.