This allows us to estimate the current state of population processes, like migration and age-sex composition but also leverage novel types of data in this ever changing new data ecosystem.
The Centre's research is the forefront of digital and computational demography, analyzing novel types of 'big' digital data. Researchers have used Google and Facebook data to track the digital gender gap, or disclosure of sexual identity, leveraged mobile phones to attain sustainable development and used LinkedIn data to analyse the professional gender gaps. We have also produced novels ways of estimating migrant stocks using digital traces and survey data.
A recent article in Demographic Research uses Yandex as a novel data source for informing migration and mobility research in Russia. During a visit to the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Athina Anastasiadou explores the articles origins in Oxford and its main findings.
In this podcast, Dr Douglas Leasure explains how the Centre has been using social media data to assess the internal displacement of populations in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022, in order to help ensure humanitarian aid is delivered as effectively as possible. Read the news article here.
