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Royal Statistical Society Meeting of the Social Statistics Section 2 December 2008, 5.00pm, at the Royal Statistical Society (tea from 4.30pm) Ethnic populations: the components for projection Paul Norman, John Stillwell and Peter Boden (School of Geography, University of Leeds) The Social Statistics Section is organizing this meeting to discuss work associated with two projects undertaken as part of the ESRC-funded "Understanding Population Trends and Processes" (UPTAP) programme (http://www.uptap.net/). One project aims to produce sub-national population projections by ethnic group and by age whilst the other project involves analysis of internal migration by ethnic group using census data for 2000-01. The presentations will consider trends and patterns in each of the components of ethnic population change together, and will report on progress towards the construction of a projection model and the difficulties confronted along the way. The presentations will include the following topics: · Fertility & Mortality trends by ethnic group, 1991 and 2001 · Internal migration by ethnic group, 2000-2001 · International migration by ethnic group, 2001-2006 · Projecting ethnic group populations The meeting will take place at the Royal Statistical Society headquarters, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX (see http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html for a map and directions). The meeting is open to all and free of charge, but pre-registration is recommended. Please email [log in to unmask] or telephone: 020 7638 8998. For more information please contact: [log in to unmask] Attendees may also be interested in The Labour Force Survey/Annual Population Survey user meeting, organised by ESDS Government, which will also be held on 2 December at Errol Street (finishing before 4.30pm). The morning will include presentations from ONS on updates to the LFS/APS, the impact of reweighting on APS microdata and the effect of non-response bias on LFS results. The afternoon will focus on analysis of the LFS or APS. A programme and booking form will be available soon from http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/