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The Human Fertility Database

Acknowledgements


Creating the Human Fertility Database is a very challenging endeavor, and we are very grateful to all our colleagues from various research institutions and statistical agencies for their extensive help.

Institutional support

This project would not have been possible without the encouragement and financial support of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany and the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna, Austria. The European Commission funded the initial work by the VID as part of the project "Reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective" (REPRO) in the Seventh Framework Programme (Grant Agreement: SSH-CT-2008-217173).

Advisory Board

Our special gratitude for their valuable comments on the HFD methodology and general advice to the project is due to the members of the HFD Advisory Board:

  • John Wilmoth, University of California, Berkeley
  • Laurent Toulemon, INED, Paris
  • Jean-Paul Sardon, INED, Paris
  • Wolfgang Lutz, VID, Vienna

Individual contributors

The HFD project greatly relies on the network that includes statistical agencies, other data holders, and country experts that help us in locating, documenting and accessing various data, understanding their origins, quality, and other important details. We thankfully acknowledge the contributions of the following researchers and institutions:

Austria

  • Tomáš Sobotka, Vienna Institute for Demography
  • Statistics Austria

Czech Republic

  • Tomáš Fiala, University of Economics, Prague
  • Radek Havel, Czech Statistical Office (CZSO)
  • Michaela Němečková, CZSO
  • Jiří Vejrych, CZSO

Netherlands

  • Elma van Agtmaal-Wobma, Statistics Netherlands
  • Trudy Lisci-Wessels, Statistics Netherlands

Russia

  • Evgueni Andreev, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Slovakia

  • Michaela Potančoková, Demographic Research Centre, Bratislava
  • Branislav Šprocha, Demographic Research Centre, Bratislava

Sweden

  • Lotta Persson, Statistics Sweden
  • Gunnar Andersson, Stockholm University

Switzerland

  • Stéphane Cotter, Swiss Federal Statistical Office

USA

  • Ward Kingkade, US Census Bureau

Finland

  • Timo Nikander, Statistics Finland

Estonia

  • Allan Puur, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre
  • Luule Sakkeus, Estonian Interuniversity Population Research Centre