demographer/references/skills.md

Competences — demographer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ff656b3a-65a8-4b4f-b04e-9db12936519b).

Essential

• apply for research funding (skill/competence)
• apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities (skill/competence)
• apply scientific methods (skill/competence)
• apply statistical analysis techniques (skill/competence)
• communicate with a non-scientific audience (skill/competence)
• conduct research across disciplines (skill/competence)
• demography (knowledge)
• demonstrate disciplinary expertise (skill/competence)
• develop professional network with researchers and scientists (skill/competence)
• digital data processing (nan)
• disseminate results to the scientific community (skill/competence)
• draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation (skill/competence)
• empirical analysis (knowledge)
• evaluate research activities (skill/competence)
• execute analytical mathematical calculations (skill/competence)
• forecast human population trends (skill/competence)
• geography (knowledge)
• increase the impact of science on policy and society (skill/competence)
• integrate gender dimension in research (skill/competence)
• interact professionally in research and professional environments (skill/competence)
• manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data (skill/competence)
• manage intellectual property rights (skill/competence)
• manage open publications (skill/competence)
• manage personal professional development (skill/competence)
• manage research data (skill/competence)
• mathematics (knowledge)
• mentor individuals (skill/competence)
• operate open source software (skill/competence)
• perform project management (skill/competence)
• perform scientific research (skill/competence)
• promote open innovation in research (skill/competence)
• promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities (skill/competence)
• promote the transfer of knowledge (skill/competence)
• publish academic research (skill/competence)
• research design (knowledge)
• scientific literature (knowledge)
• scientific research methodology (knowledge)
• speak different languages (skill/competence)
• statistics (knowledge)
• study human population (skill/competence)
• synthesise information (skill/competence)
• think abstractly (skill/competence)
• use data processing techniques (skill/competence)
• write scientific publications (skill/competence)

Optional

• advise legislators (skill/competence)
• apply blended learning (skill/competence)
• apply digital mapping (skill/competence)
• conduct public surveys (skill/competence)
• develop scientific theories (skill/competence)
• find trends in geographic data (skill/competence)
• interview focus groups (skill/competence)
• manage database (skill/competence)
• monitor sociological trends (skill/competence)
• multidisciplinary research (knowledge)
• perform market research (skill/competence)
• quantitative analysis (knowledge)
• scientific modelling (knowledge)
• sociology (knowledge)
• spatial planning (knowledge)
• teach geography (skill/competence)
• teach in academic or vocational contexts (skill/competence)
• urban planning (knowledge)
• use spreadsheets software (skill/competence)
• write research proposals (skill/competence)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 9 ads, as of 2026-07-11)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

• data analysis — 44 %
• data manipulation — 22 %
• data cleaning — 22 %
• data compilation — 22 %
• causal inference — 22 %
• demographic analysis — 22 %
• econometrics — 22 %
• exploratory data analysis — 22 %
• fertility rate estimation — 22 %
• mathematical demography — 22 %
• migration data analysis — 22 %
• mortality rate calculation — 22 %
• population projections — 22 %
• quantitative research — 22 %
• regression modeling — 22 %
• statistical inference — 22 %
• statistical modeling — 22 %
• survey methodology — 22 %
• writing — 11 %
• scientific writing — 11 %
• social science research — 11 %
• literature review — 11 %
• family dynamics research — 11 %
• demographic concepts — 11 %
• demographic methods — 11 %
• communication — 11 %

Methods

• agent orchestration — 22 %
• age-sex accuracy assessment — 22 %
• cohort component method — 22 %
• experiment design — 22 %
• machine learning — 22 %
• sensitivity analysis — 22 %
• responsible ai practices — 22 %
• sampling — 22 %
• bias correction — 22 %
• prompt engineering — 22 %
• pro-rating techniques — 22 %
• measurement models — 22 %
• peer-reviewed publication — 11 %
• systematic review — 11 %

Responsibilities

• technical report production — 22 %
• research project ownership — 22 %
• scenario building — 22 %
• research agenda shaping — 22 %
• population estimate generation — 22 %
• metadata documentation — 22 %
• methodology deployment — 22 %
• recommendation development — 22 %
• insight delivery — 22 %
• data compilation — 22 %
• data harmonization — 22 %
• data analysis — 22 %
• collaborating on articles — 11 %
• collaboration — 11 %
• application screening — 11 %
• conducting literature reviews — 11 %
• independent research — 11 %
• demographic research — 11 %
• producing summaries — 11 %
• mentored training — 11 %
• research assistance — 11 %
• statistical analysis — 11 %