Small area population forecasts are widely used by government and business for a variety of
planning, research and policy purposes, and often influence major investment decisions …

More and more European cities are confronted with population decline in a structural sense.
This development of “urban shrinkage” has different causes, but similar effects: the city's …

Population projections serve various actors at subnational, national, and international levels
as a quantitative basis for political and economic decision-making. Usually, the users are no …

Urban and rural population growth in a spatial panel of municipalities. Regional Studies.
Using Bayesian posterior model probabilities and data pertaining to 3659 Brazilian …

This paper deals with an issue that appears to be unexplored by demographers and others
who conduct cross-sectional forecasts of populations with multiple characteristics. The issue …

The size, composition, and spatial distribution of both people and households have a
substantial impact on the demand for and development and delivery of infrastructure …

At the small area scale simple methods for forecasting total populations are often employed
because of a lack of data for cohort‐component models, concerns about the reliability of …

Population projections provide predictions of future population sizes for an area. Historically,
most population projections have been produced using deterministic or scenario-based …

The regression approach for small-area population forecasting is increasingly used in urban
planning and emerging research in climate change and infrastructure systems in response …

The 'M4'forecasting competition results were featured recently in a special issue of the
International Journal of Forecasting and included projections for demographic time series …