TY - CHAP A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Willekens, F.J. ED - Wright, James T1 - Data bases and statistical systems: demography T2 - International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences N2 - This article deals with the availability of large-scale data for demographic analysis. The main sources of data that demographers work with are censuses data, microcensus data, population registers, other administrative data, survey data, and big data. Data of this kind can be used to generate demographic rates and study demographic processes, such as family formation, marriage, divorce, residential mobility, and death. The advantages and pitfalls of different types of data are summarized. KW - Data processing KW - Statistical information KW - Administrative data KW - Big data KW - Births KW - Deaths KW - Demographic rates KW - Demography KW - Marriages KW - Migration KW - Population registers KW - Residential moves KW - Survey data KW - Vital events KW - Vital statistics Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-0-08-097086-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.41013-5 SP - 735 EP - 741 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -