Üblicherweise werden Unsicherheiten bei Bevölkerungsprognosen mit Hilfe der Szenarientechnik abgebildet. Unter Annahme von begründeten Szenarienparametern, die eine gewisse Bandbreite von zukünftig zu erwartenden demographischen Raten (Geburten- und Sterberaten, Nettomigration) abdecken,...

Ageing is one of the greatest social and economic challenges of the 21st century in Europe. SHARE, a EU-sponsored project that will build up a Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, will be a fundamental resource for science and public policy to help mastering this unprecedented...

This contribution builds upon a former paper by the authors (Lipps and Betz 2004), in which a stochastic population projection for East- and West Germany is performed. Aim was to forecast relevant population parameters and their distribution in a consistent way. We now present some...