Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography

BACKGROUND Ageing is central in the European Union (EU) policy debate, with all member states being concerned about implications of growing shares of older people and declining...

In this technical manual, we describe the architecture and use of the first prototype of the KCMD Demographic Tools Platform (KCMD-DTP), an online dashboard that will permit users to run demographic...

Due to an unprecedented agreement with the European Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission was in charge of collecting and analyze mobile positioning...

A new article published on the open-access journal EPJ Data Science explores how innovative data generated from social media platforms could offer timely insights...

This work contributes to the discussion on how innovative data can support a fast crisis response. We use operational data from Facebook to gain useful insights on where...

Data used: Historical air traffic data, processed and provided by SABRE. Monthly air traffic information on the number of passengers and the average price per ticket, for every couple...

Monthly air passenger flows data are synthetised into a set of indicators between countries worldwide describing trends and types of human cross-border mobility. Two indicators...

Estimates of country-to-country cross-border human mobility ("trips") on the basis of global statistics on tourism and air passenger traffic. The two sources are adjusted and merged; resulting into a set...

The European Commission's Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD), established on 20 June 2016, aims to provide scientific evidence for EU policymaking tailored to the needs of Commission...

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