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## Contents

- __[Books](#books)__
- [Online Books](#online-books)
- __[Education](#education)__
- [Online courses and Material](#online-courses-and-material)
- [Online Courses and Material](#online-courses-and-material)
- [Videos and Lectures](#videos-and-lectures)
- [Workshops](#workshops)
- [University Course Programs](#university-course-programs)
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- [Stata](#stata)
<!-- - [Tutorials](#tutorials) -->
- __[Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)__
- [GitHub Organizations](#github-organizations)
- __[Relevant Awesome Lists](#relevant-awesome-lists)__
- __[Contributing](#contributing)__

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- [Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes](https://books.google.de/books/about/Demography.html?id=xlv2H6LpNAwC), by Preston, S., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2000)
- [Essential Demographic Methods](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674045576), by Wachter, K. W. (2014)

### Online books

> Entries are ordered chronologically.

- [Research Methods in Demography at the University of Washington](https://hanowell.github.io/uwsoc533a/index.html) by Hanowell, B. (2022)
- [Applied Demographic Data Analysis](https://coreysparks.github.io/appdem_Book/) by Applied Demographic Data Analysis (2023)
- [The Epidemiologist R Handbook](https://epirhandbook.com/en/) by The Epidemiologist R Handbook (2024)


## Education
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> Papers should accompany a great reproducibility package to serve as examples. Ordered chronologically.

- [Analyzing the young adult mortality hump in R with MortHump](https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-TR-2018-003) by Remund, A., Camarda, C. G., & Riffe, T. (2018)
- [Forecast accuracy hardly improves with method complexity when completing cohort fertility](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722364115) by Bohk-Ewald, C., Li, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2018)
- [Reproducible materials for “APC Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots.”](https://osf.io/5bmyz/) by Acosta, E. (2019)

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- [Alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq](https://github.com/alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq) by Raalte, A. van. (2025)
- [Bayesian Probabilistic Projection of International Migration](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0415-0) by Azose, J. J., & Raftery, A. E. (2015)
- [bayesPop: Probabilistic Population Projections](https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v075.i05) by Ševčíková, H., & Raftery, A. E. (2016)
- [biogrowth: Modelling of Population Growth](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/biogrowth/index.html) by Garre, A., Koomen, J., Besten, H. den, & Zwietering, M. (2025)
- [Christiandudel/dtms [R]](https://github.com/christiandudel/dtms) by Dudel, C. (2026)
- [DemoDecomp: Decompose Demographic Functions](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DemoDecomp/index.html) by Riffe, T. (2024)
- [demogR: Analysis of Age-Structured Demographic Models](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/demogR/index.html) by Jones, J. H., & Oeppen, J. (2018)
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- [HMDHFDplus: Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data from the Web](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/HMDHFDplus/index.html) by Riffe, T., Boe, C., Hilton, J., Goldstein, J., Holzman, S., & Yoo, S. H. (2025)
- [LexisPlotR: Plot Lexis Diagrams for Demographic Purposes](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/LexisPlotR/index.html) by Ottolinger, P., & Smilde-Becker, M. (2020)
- [migest: Tools for Estimating, Measuring and Working with Migration Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/migest/index.html) by Abel, G. J. (2025)
- [popdemo: Demographic Modelling Using Projection Matrices](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/popdemo/index.html) by Stott, I., Hodgson, D., Townley, S., & Ellner, S. (2026)
- [rcbayes: Estimate Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules with Bayesian Models](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rcbayes/) by Yeung, J., Alexander, M., & Riffe, T. (2022)
- [Rcompadre: Utilities for using the “COM(P)ADRE” Matrix Model Database](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcompadre/index.html) by Barks, P., Buss, D., Salguero-Gomez, R., Stott, I., Petry, W. K., James, T., … Levin, S. (2026)
- [rsocsim: SOCSIM](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rsocsim/index.html) by Theile [aut, T., cre, cph, Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Snyder, M., & Calderón-Bernal, L. P. (2026)
- [tidycensus: Load US Census Boundary and Attribute Data as “tidyverse” and ’sf’-Ready Data Frames](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/) by Walker, K., Herman, M., & Eberwein, K. (2026)
- [TwoTimeScales: Analysis of Event Data with Two Time Scales](https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/TwoTimeScales/index.html) by Carollo, A., Eilers, P. H. C., & Gampe, J. (2026)
- [ungroup: Penalized Composite Link Model for Efficient Estimation of Smooth Distributions from Coarsely Binned Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ungroup/index.html) by Pascariu, M. D., Rizzi, S., Schoeley, J., & Danko, M. J. (2024)
- [vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vital/index.html) by Hyndman, R., Tang, S., McBain, M., & O’Hara-Wild, M. (2025)
- [wcde: Download Data from the Wittgenstein Centre Human Capital Data Explorer](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wcde/index.html) by Abel, G. J., K.C, S., Potancokova, M., Reiter, C., Tamburini, A., & Yildiz, D. (2024)



### Python

- [Awesome Python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python) (other lists: [1](https://github.com/kirang89/pycrumbs), [2](https://github.com/svaksha/pythonidae), [3](https://github.com/trekhleb/learn-python)) for general resources in Python
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- [Applied Demography Toolbox](https://applieddemogtoolbox.github.io/) and [here](https://github.com/AppliedDemogToolbox/applieddemogtoolbox.github.io)


### GitHub Organizations

- [AppliedDemogToolbox](https://github.com/AppliedDemogToolbox)
- [DEBIAS](https://github.com/de-bias)
- [Eurostat](https://github.com/eurostat)
- [Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science](https://github.com/OxfordDemSci)
- [Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research](https://github.com/MPIDR)
- [Open Science Demography](https://github.com/OpenScienceDemography)
- [Probabilistic Projections Group](https://github.com/PPgp)
- [UC Berkeley Demography](https://github.com/berkeley-demography)
- [WorldPop](https://github.com/wpgp)

## Relevant Awesome Lists

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