10th International Conference on Population Geographies, Loughborough, UK

From 1 to 3 July 2019, the 10th International Conference on Population Geographies was held at Loughborough University, UK. Dr.Reiko Hayashi, Director of Department of International Research and Cooperation, Dr.Shiro Koike, Director of Department of Population Structure Research, Dr.Masataka Nakagawa, Senior Researcher of Department of International Research and Cooperation, Keita Suga, Senior Researcher of Department of Population Structure Research, Kenji Kamata, Senior Researcher of Department of Population Structure Research, Nozomu Inoue, Researcher of Department of Theoretical Social Security Research, participated and made following presentations;

- Reiko Hayashi “Health and long-term care workforce shortage and the role of migration”

- Shiro Koike, Keita Suga and Kenji Kamata “The Methods and Results of the Regional Population projections for Japan”

- Masataka Nakagawa “Migration of Adult Children, Living Arrangements and Geographical Distances to Parents: Analysis of the Japanese National Survey on Migration”

- Keita Suga, Shiro Koike, Kenji Kamata, Futoshi Ishii, Miho Iwasawa and Masakazu Yamauchi “Municipal Death and Birth Projections Consistent with IPSS (2018) Regional Population Projections of Japan: 2015-2045”

- Kenji Kamata, Shiro Koike, Keita Suga, Masakazu Yamauchi “An evaluation on the Accuracy for the Regional Population Projections in Japan – Investigation on Spatial Dependencies in the age-specific projection error rates”

- Takashi Inoue and Nozomu Inoue “The Web System of Small Area Population Projections for the Whole Japan and its Applications: Focusing on Rapid Aging in Japan”

The information on the conference is also posted here.