Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-4
LATVIA
19 Raina Boulv.
1586 Riga
Tel.: (+371) 7 226 368
Fax: (+371) 7 225 039
E-mail: zvidrins@lanet.lv
Internet: http://www.lanet.lv/popin/popcentr/dc_www.html
Management: Zvidrins, Peteris (Prof.) - head
Year of foundation: 1982
Historical development: The Centre of Demography is a
demographic research unit at the University of Latvia. The initial name of the
research unit when it was founded at the beginning of 1982 was a Demographic
group. At the beginning of 1987 it was renamed into Demographic Laboratory and
in 1994 into a Centre of Demography.
Staff: 12
Main fields: Since the formation of Centre, the demographic
development of the population of Latvia has become its main research object. The
Centre is working closely with the staff of the Department of Statistics and
Demography which has been one of the major centres for research and teaching in
Statistics and Demography in the Baltics since it was founded in 1979.
Research: The research area of the Centre and the Department covers
the theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the population
development, but major research trends include long-term fertility, family
formation, its stability, mortality and population reproduction on the whole.
Lately, ethnic demography and economic demography themes, as well as internal
and international migration, different aspects of demographic policy have been
research objects of the Centre.
Research topics:
* Forecasts of demographic development and improvement of demographic policy
in Latvia
* Fertility and family survey
* Development of households and families in Latvia
* Current development in demographic structures in the Central and Eastern
European countries
* Population replacement in Latvia
Publications/ papers: The Centre regularly publishes research
results in scientific proceedings or separate statistical (analytical)
bulletins. Main publications:
* Family and fertility in Latvia. 1996. Riga: Centre of Demography,
106 p. (in Latvian)
* Population replacement in Latvia (Ed. P. Zvidrins). 1996. Riga:
Centre of Demography, 86 p. (in Latvian; summary and contents also in English)
* Krumins Juris. Health and mortality during a transition to market economy.
- Review Baltique, 1997, No.10., pp. 114 - 129
* Population replacement in rayons and cities in the 1990s. 1997.
Riga: Centre of Demography, 65 p.
* Zvidrins Peteris. Changes in the ethnic composition of the Baltic states
since the end of World War II. In : 50 years after World War II. Gdansk,
1997, pp. 81 - 94
* Zvidrins Peteris. Fertility preferences in Latvia. - Review Baltique,
1997, No.10, pp. 90 - 103
* The second part of life span in Latvia. 1998. Riga: Centre of
Demography, 68 p.
* Zvidrins Peteris, Ezera Ligita, Greitans Aigars. Latvia. Standard
Country Report. Fertility and Family Surveys in Countries of the ECE Region.
1998. New York and Geneva, 110 p.
* Zvidrins Peteris. Changes of ethnic structure in Latvia in the 1990s.
1998. Riga: Centre of Demography, 58 p.
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