Demographic forecasting with Popgroup
Popgroup is a family of software developed to forecast population, households and the labour force for areas and social groups. It is based on Excel to build on users' existing spreadsheet skills. The software has been used to forecast national and sub-national populations, as well as social and ethnic groups. It uses standard demographic methods of cohort component projections, household headship rates and economic activity rates. Its flexibility allows integration of official statistics and ancillary data.
New: POPGROUP improvements under consideration
Wales uses POPGROUP for Local Authority population projections
Further details about Popgroup can be found by clicking on the drop-down menus along the top of this page.
Established by Bradford City Council and Andelin Associates with the support of its User Group, Popgroup is now developed and administered by the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) at the University of Manchester. Version 3 was released in 2005.