Data files for 'Demography: Fast and Slow'

This project includes the data used for the article ‘Demography: Fast and Slow’, accepted for publication in <i>Population and Development Review. </i>See the paper as well as the Appendix: Supplemental Materials for details.<br><br>Here is a brief description of the files containing the estimates of <i>PTR </i>and <i>MST</i> used for the paper. The data (in .csv format) can be downloaded from <i>figshare</i> (doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.16751869)..<b></b>· The file <i>Data_labels.csv</i> contains the country labels used in Figures 2 and 3 in the main paper.<b> </b>· The file <i>Data_paper.csv</i> contains birth, death, immigration and emigration rates, and the derived estimates of country-level <i>PTR</i> and <i>MST</i> used in the paper (five-year intervals between 1990-95 and 2015-20), using Abel-Cohen estimates based on the “Demographic Account Pseudo Bayesian Closed” method. · The file <i>Data_robust.csv</i> is equivalent to <i>Data_paper.csv </i>but it is based on Abel-Cohen “Demographic Account Minimisation Closed” estimates of migratory flows.<b> </b>· The files <i>Data_Italy.csv</i> and <i>Data_Germany.csv </i>contain respectively the data on birth, death, immigration and emigration rates, and the estimates of annual <i>PTR</i> and <i>MST</i> for Italy and Germany.