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The Theory and Practice of Population & Household Projections Seminar - Edinburgh, 9 November 2005

28 November 2005

Background

The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) is responsible for producing population and household projections for Scottish local authorities and health boards. Currently GROS are reviewing the approach to the production of population and household projections. This seminar brings together the main producers of projections software in the United Kingdom along with users in local authority and government.

Among the topics covered were:

• Population projections for the United Kingdom.
• Overview of the range of main population projection systems used in the United Kingdom.
• Plans for changes to population and household projections in GROS.
• Local authority users and requirement for household and population projections.

Agenda

The agenda of the seminar was:

09:30 - 10:00	Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10:15	Introduction to the day	Cecilia Macintyre (GROS)
10:15 - 11:00	The UK population projections	Chris Shaw (GAD)
11:00 - 11:45	Population and household projections for smaller areas - the theory	Phil Rees (University of Leeds)
11:45 - 12:30	A user's perspective	Jenny Boag (Falkirk Council)
12:30 - 12:45	Q&A
12:45 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:00	Population projections - the practice in England & Wales	Richard Pereira (ONS)
14:00 - 14:30	Software for local authority users	Ludi Simpson (Manchester University)
14:30 - 15:00	Discussion: Local projections - top down or bottom up?	Clive Lewis (Welsh Assembly)
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee
15:15 - 15:45	Reviewing household projections in Scotland & Northern Ireland	Esther Roughsedge (GROS) & David Marshall (NISRA)
15:45 - 16:30	Household projections in England & Wales	Bob Garland (ODPM) & Dave King (Anglia Polytechnic)
16:30	End

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