The 4th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population
Rep. of Korea, July 23 to August 12, 2017
Registration deadline: June 23, 2017

The Summer Seminar on Population provides a forum for discussions on population and a set of useful demographic tools to participants from across the globe. To this end, three consecutive individual workshops will take place with specific emphasis on “Aging and NTA”, “Demography with R”, and “Migration Analysis” during the 4th KOSTAT-UNFPA Summer Seminar on Population.

The workshops will provide an opportunity for demographical experts, government officials, and graduate students to learn innovative methods for producing and analyzing population statistics and demographical information. Hence, the seminar serves as a platform to foster experts on population statistics and contribute to each population statistical offices’ capabilities. All participants are encouraged to select one or more workshops among the three workshops stated below. The working language of all three workshops is English.

Workshop themes for 2017 are as follows:

1. Aging and NTA

July 23 – July 29 / Statistics Training Institute, Daejeon
Introduction of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) and basic frameworks to construct the accounts, Estimating the age profiles and other various hands-on exercises.

2. Demography with R

July 30 – August 5 / Crown Harbor Hotel, Busan
Introduction of ‘R’ and R environment to efficiently handle data, Hands-on exercises on popular R packages for importing, manipulating, and visualising data, Writing R functions to speed up repetitive tasks and displaying results in interactive plots.

3. Migration Analysis

August 6 – August 12 / Ocloud Hotel, Seoul
Understanding causes and consequences of migration, Overcoming measurement and data limitations, Migration in context of population change and urbanization, Providing robust predictions of future movements
 

Please refer to the attached file for more detailed information and followings:

   1) The academic calendar should be your prioirty before this program. (NO excused absence allowed)

   2) If you are planning to apply for this program, let the Student Affairs Division know.

   3) Be reminded to abide by the Honor Code as a KDI School student.

 

Contact Information:

Sol Choi
Program Officer/Asia Pacific Population Institute (APPI)
E-mail: master@appi.re.kr
Tel.: +82.42.482. 9328 / +82.42.483.9331
Website: http://appi.re.kr/eng/work/sub02_2.html

Suk-Yeong Lee
Program Officer/Asia Pacific Population Institute (APPI)
E-mail: master@appi.re.kr
Tel: +82.42.489. 9334 / +82.42.483.9331